Daniel
Osborn


Daniel Osborn, Ed.D. is a history instructor at Dean College. He is a Returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Jordan. His scholarly background is in Middle Eastern and Jewish History and his research explores the relationship between historical narrative construction, collective identity formation, and the portrayal of subaltern communities in social studies textbooks and classroom discourse. He is the author of Representing the Middle East and Africa in Social Studies Education: Teacher Discourse and Otherness.

Articles by Daniel

The Words “We” Use for “The Other”

Too often, teachers present geographically distant regions—and the people who live in them—as “other.” Here’s how you can avoid doing so.