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Phillip J VanFossen
J.F. Ackerman Professor of Social Studies Education; Director, Ackerman Center; Associate Director, Purdue Center for Economic Education, Purdue University
Phillip J. VanFossen serves as the James F. Ackerman professor of Social Studies Education and director of the James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship in the College of Education at Purdue University in Indiana. He also serves as the associate director of the Purdue University Center for Economic Education where he teaches introductory economics courses for the Economics Department. The author of more than 90 scholarly works — including a high school economics textbook — his research interests include how economics and social studies teachers use the Internet and digital media in their teaching.
