Abigail Stebbins

Abigail Stebbins is assistant professor of elementary education in the Department of Teaching and Learning. She earned her Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University, M.Ed. from Kent State University, and B.A. from The College of Wooster. Prior to pursuing her doctoral degree, she was a second grade classroom teacher in northeast Ohio.

Abigail’s current scholarship examines 1) children’s “everyday” social and civic learning that occurs throughout the school day, 2) how elementary teachers use integrative pedagogies to resist or subvert the boundaries of the formal curriculum, and 3) critical approaches to using children’s literature and online curriculum to teach social studies in primary classrooms. 

Abigail’s research is published in peer-reviewed journals such as Contemporary Issues in Technology and Social Studies Teacher Education, Social Studies and the Young Learner, Social Studies Research and Practice, and The History Teacher. She also has numerous book chapters published on topics ranging from teaching history with children’s literature to depictions of teachers on television. She regularly presents her work at national conferences of the American Educational Research Association, College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, Association of Teacher Educators, and Social Science Education Consortium. She also currently serves as an associate editor of Social Studies Journal.

• Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, The Pennsylvania State University, 2024
• M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, Kent State University, 2019
• B.A., Early Childhood Education and Communication Sciences and Disorders, The College of Wooster, 2016