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Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education
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Michael Kopish
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Michael Kopish

Department Chair, Teacher Education and Professor
Teacher Education
740.593.4421
Patton Hall 309R

Education

  • Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a minor in Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Master of Arts in Teaching, Coe College
  • B.A. in History with minors in Secondary Education and Psychology, Mt. Mercy College

Research Interests

  • Teaching and learning in social studies classrooms
  • Youth participation and civic engagement
  • Inclusive literacy practices

Courses Taught

  • Social studies education
  • AYA courses in secondary education
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Biography

Dr. Michael Kopish began his career in education as a high school social studies teacher.

Research, Engagement, and Outreach Interests

Global Citizenship Education, Globally Competent Teaching; Community Engaged Teacher Education, Service Learning; Inclusive Classroom Practices in Social Studies.

Selected Publications

Kopish, M.A., Ozturk, F. & Marques, W. (2025). Global Citizenship Teacher Education Through Collaborative Online International Learning In (J. Zajda & A. Rapoport, Eds.) Citizenship Education, Globalization, and Advances in Technology. (pp. 107-131). Springer. 

Zayimoglu Ozturk, F., Kopish, M.A., & Ozturk, T. (2025). The ongoing trend in teacher competence: A bibliometric analysis of Scopus. International Journal of Research in Education and Science (IJRES), 11(1), 166-189. https://doi.org/10.46328/ijres.3619 

Kopish, M.A. (2024). Preparing Future Global Citizenship Educators: Navigating a Contested Field from Theory to Practice. In (J. Zajda & A. Rapoport, Eds.) Discourses of Globalisation, Cultural Diversity and Active Citizenship Education (pp. 69-97). Springer. 

Kopish, M.A. & Shahri, B. (2024). Preparing Globally Competent Middle Childhood Social Studies Teacher Candidates. Journal of International Social Studies, 14(1), 59-89. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1440923.pdf 

Kopish, M.A., & Ozturk, F. (2024). Collaborative Online International Learning: A Promising Practice for Developing Intercultural and Global Competencies with Turkish and American Teacher Candidates. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad. 36(2), 29-57. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v36i2.925 

Kieninger, K. M. & Kopish, M. A. (2024). Pluralist Economics, Critical Empathy, and Citizenship: Overcoming the Influence of the Council for Economic Education and Mainstream Economics in the K-12 Economics Classroom. In (T. Lucey & K, Cooter, Eds.) Critical Empathy as Teacher Education Reform: Dissecting the Principles that Constrain Socio-Historical and Moral Vision (pp. 209-249). Information Age Publishing. 

Endacott, J. & Kopish, M. A. (2023). The Language of Social Studies. Leiden: Brill. DOI:10.1163/9789004546967 

Kieninger, K. & Kopish, M.A. (2023). Developing an Understanding of Secondary Social Studies Teacher Candidates’ Economic Pedagogical Content Knowledge. Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 14(3), 1-25. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/222954/. 

Onosko, J. J., Kopish, M. A., & Swenson, L. (2021). Essential elements of unit design when exploring public issues with students. In R. Evans (Ed) Handbook on Teaching Social Issues. (2nd ed.) (pp. 299-314). Charlotte, NC, Information Age Publishing. 

Dani, D., Harrison, L., Felton-Koestler, M., Kopish, M.A., Dunham, J., Hallman Thrasher, A., & Shaw, O. (2021). Nature of mentoring interactions to support teacher candidate learning in clinical settings. Peabody Journal of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2020.1864248 

Doppen, F.H., Winnenberg, J.M., Kopish, M.A., & Shahri, B. (2021). Out of the bubble: Service learning in the Little Cities of Black Diamonds. In M. Morrone & T. Arnold (Eds). From surviving to thriving in Appalachia: Place, passion, and possibilities (pp. 14-27). Athens, OH: Ohio University, The Appalachian Rural Health Institute. 

Kopish, M. A., & Marques, W. (2020). Leveraging technology to promote global citizenship in teacher education in the United States and Brazil. Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 5(1), 45-69, https://doi.org/10.46303/ressat.05.01.3 

Kopish, M. A., Shahri, B., & Amira, M. (2019). Developing globally competent teacher candidates through cross-cultural experiential learning. Journal of International Social Studies. 9(2), 3-34.