
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
Professor Heffron is a development scholar whose focus is the cultural and intellectual history of education nationally and transnationally
Social
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
Educational History
Development History
U.S. Relations in Asia and the Pacific
Accomplishments
Fulbright Teaching Award Finalist
2005
National Endowment for the Humanities
1991
Education
University of Rochester
Ph.D.
University of Rochester
M.A.
Princeton University
B.A.
Articles
'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.