Division of Education hires Ogawa
September 1, 2005
KOKOMO, Ind.—The Indiana University Kokomo Division of Education has hired Masato Ogawa, Ed.D., as an assistant professor of secondary education.
In 2004, Ogawa received one of four Teaching 9/11 Best Practices Awards presented by the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. He was honored for a lesson plan that looked at the limits of governmental authority during wartime. In the lesson, students consider two examples—U.S. government treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the USA PATRIOT Act, enacted after terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. “Students, using various primary and secondary sources, build their own perspectives on civil liberties and issues of national security,” Ogawa said.
Offering students multiple and multicultural perspectives on history is a favorite teaching approach and research topic for Ogawa. He has published numerous articles on learning and teaching of history, historical perspective-taking, comparative textbook analyses, and Japanese education. He has presented such issues at conferences of the American Educational Research Association, the National Council for Social Studies, and the College University Faculty Assembly. He has also researched issues facing foreign teachers in U.S. classrooms, multicultural education, and service learning.
Ogawa earned a doctorate (2001) and a master's degree (1998) in social science education at The University of Georgia. He previously taught at Treasure Valley Community College in Ontario, Oregon, and Ontario High School.
