{"id":25066,"date":"2016-09-07T15:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=25066"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:29:30","slug":"kaylene-stevens","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/kaylene-stevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaylene Stevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kaylene Stevens is a clinical assistant professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. Her research interests lie in teacher education, civics and social studies education, and pedagogy and curriculum in K\u201312 classrooms. She works on several grants and research studies that study how to bring civic education and discourse into K\u201312 classrooms in meaningful and practical ways.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stevens teaches both elementary and secondary methods classes and research methods at the graduate and undergraduate level. She has organized and co-led the practicum and pre-practicum experiences for pre-service teachers. Her work has been featured in the <em>Journal of Social Studies Research<\/em> and <em>Theory &amp; Research in Social Education<\/em>. She co-authored the book, <em>Teaching History for Justice: Centering Activism in Students\u2019 Study of the Past<\/em>. She has been published in the <em>Boston Globe<\/em> and <em>Educational Leadership<\/em> and has been a guest on several education podcasts. Prior to her work at Boston University, Dr. Stevens was a public school teacher for 14 years and department head at Framingham High School.<\/p>\n<h3>Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2026\/bu-wheelock-celebrates-2026-faculty-awards\/\">BU Wheelock Celebrates 2026 Faculty Awards<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2026\/scholarly-accomplishments-may-2026\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, May 2026<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2026\/scholarly-accomplishments-february-2026\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments, February 2026<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/scholarly-accomplishments-october-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments October 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/shifting-narrative-middle-school-youth\/\">Shifting the Narrative on Middle School Youth<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/scholarly-accomplishments-may-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments May 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/bu-wheelock-scholarly-accomplishments-february-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments February 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2024\/promoting-equity-and-diversity-in-the-classroom\/\">Promoting Equity and Diversity in the Classroom<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2021\/new-study-will-explore-impact-of-massachusetts-social-studies-curricular-materials\/\">Study Explores Impact of Massachusetts Social Studies Materials<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2021\/educators-you-can-lead-the-charge-for-change\/\">Educators, You Can Lead the Charge for Change<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">In the Media<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/its-time-to-talk-politics-in-a-peaceful-way\/\">POV: It&#8217;s Time to Talk Politics in a Peaceful Way<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/pov-new-laws-threaten-educators-who-teach-history\/\">POV: New Laws Threaten Educators Who Teach History<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/cognoscenti\/2023\/09\/28\/divisive-concept-laws-critical-race-theory-kaylene-stevens\">New Laws Threaten Educators Who Teach History. Where Does That Leave Our Democracy?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/09\/19\/opinion\/how-raise-generation-better-citizens\/\">How to Raise a Generation of Better Citizens<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":11825,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84695,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/25066\/revisions\/84695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}