John M. Heffron, PhD
Director of the MA Program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change, Professor of Educational History and Culture | Soka University
Aliso Viejo, CA, UNITED STATES
Professor Heffron is a development scholar whose focus is the cultural and intellectual history of education nationally and transnationally
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Biography
Dr. Heffron is the Director of the MA program in Educational Leadership and Societal Change at Soka University. He's also a Professor of Educational History and Culture. Dr. Heffron's research focuses on North-South relations in the history of American education, leadership and development, and the transnational sources of schooling.
Areas of Expertise (3)
Educational History
Development History
U.S. Relations in Asia and the Pacific
Accomplishments (2)
Fulbright Teaching Award Finalist (professional)
2005
National Endowment for the Humanities (professional)
1991
Education (3)
University of Rochester: Ph.D.
University of Rochester: M.A.
Princeton University: B.A.
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Articles (1)
'To form a more perfect Union': The Moral Example of Southern Baptist Thought and Education,
Religion and American CultureJohn M. Heffron
1998 Conservative politically, inured to the new empiricism, and yet the least secularized of the Protestant ideologies, Southern Baptism was a "guiding light: in the ascendancy of southernness in American education.
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