College of Education Faculty & Staff
Kevin Carr
Associate Professor of Science Education
Kevin Carr teaches courses in science education, preparing science teachers at both secondary and primary grade levels. After seven years of teaching high school physics in Roseburg and Portland, Oregon, Dr. Carr has become a regional leader in training current teachers in inquiry-based science teaching in earth/space science. He also teaches Introductory Astronomy in the Pacific University College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Carr’s scholarly interests include pre-service science teacher action research and science teacher professional development.
Education
- PhD and MS - University of Idaho
- BS - University of Oregon
Recent Grants
Co-Principal Investigator, North Coast Highly Qualified Science Teacher Initiative, NCLB Title IIB Grant, Oregon Department of Education, 2005-2008 ($554,000).
Principal Investigator, Oregon Teachers Touching the Sky, IDEAS 2003 Grant Program, NASA Space Telescope Science Institute, 2003-2004 ($40,800).
Recent Publications
Phillips, D. K. & Carr, K. (2009). Dilemmas of trustworthiness in preservice teacher action research. Action Research, 6(4), 421-440.
Phillips, D.K. & Carr, K. (2007). Illustrations of the analytic memo as reflexivity for preservice teachers. Educational Action Research, 15(4), 561-575.
Phillips, D.K. & Carr, K. (2006). Becoming a teacher through action research: Process, context, and self-study. New York: Routledge.
Carr, K. & Phillips, D.K. (2005). Interactive textware: Using Macromedia Authorware to reinvent the academic textbook. In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of e-Learn 2005: world conference on e-learning in government, corporate, healthcare, and higher education (pp. 29-34). Chesapeake, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Carr, K. (2005). The “Ten Most Beautiful” Experiments Interpreted by Novice Students. The Physics Teacher 43, November 2005, 533-537.
Phillips, D. & Carr, D.K. (2005). Writing to re-invent: an eTextbook about becoming a teacher. International Journal of the Book v.2, 69-74.
Carr, K. & Phillips, D.K. (2005). Using interactive textware to scaffold preservice teacher understanding of action research. In R. Carlsen, I. Gibson, K. McFerrin, J. Price, & J. Willis (Eds.), Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference Annual (pp. 1898-1904). Norfolk, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.
Carr, K.; Gardner, F.; Munsch, T.; Odell, M.; & Wilson, B. (2003). The role of on-line, asynchronous interaction in student development of light and color concepts. Journal of Interactive Online Learning, Fall, 2003. Retrieved from http://www.ncolr.org/jiol/archives/2003/fall/05/index.html
Contact Information
Email: kcarr@pacificu.edu
Phone: 503-352-1443