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

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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

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 Culture

John 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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