T. Jameson Brewer, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Social Foundations of Education in the Teacher Education Department at the University of North Georgia. His teaching experience spans from the middle school, high school, undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels.
He received his Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was named as the 2016 Outstanding Doctoral Student. He completed a M.S. in Social Foundations of Education from Georgia State University, and a B.S.Ed. in Secondary Education of History with a minor in Anthropology from Valdosta State University where, in 2016, he was named as a Distinguished Alumni of the James L. and Dorothy H. Dewar College of Education & Human Services.
Additionally, he serves as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Educational Foundations, serves as a Scholar at Scholars Strategy Network (Harvard University), is a Fellow at the National Education Policy Center (University of Colorado, Boulder), and a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (Indiana University).
Jameson was named as the Fieldale Scholar award recipient for the College of Education at the University of North Georgia and received the Teaching Excellence Award in 2019 at the University of North Georgia (the institution's highest teaching honor). He was inducted into the University of North Georgia's chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society in 2019.
His scholarly work has been published in the peer-reviewed journals of Education Policy Analysis Archives, Educational Studies, Urban Education, Critical Education, the Peabody Journal of Education, Critical Questions in Education, the International Journal of Play, Policy Futures in Education, Pro-Posições, the Journal of Family Strengths, Urban Education, Education and Urban Society, the Australian Educational Researcher and others. His work has also appeared at the National Education Policy Center, the Progressive Magazine, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, Education Week, and the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He is co-editor of the book Teach for America Counter-Narratives: Alumni Speak Up and Speak Out (Peter Lang, 2015) which has received attention and acclaim from NPR’s Marketplace, NPR’s Code Switch, NPR Illinois, The Daily Beast, Jacobin, AlterNet, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Washington Post, NonProfit Quarterly, ReThinking Schools, The Brookings Institution, Teaching for Change,Atlanta Blackstar, Esther Cepeda’s nationally syndicated column, and was named as a Teaching for Change Favorite Book of 2015.
Other books include
- Learning to Teach in an Era of Privatization: Global Trends in Teacher Preparation (Teachers College Press, 2019) *Received the 2021 American Educational Studies Association's Critic's Choice Award
- Philanthropy, Hidden Strategy, and Collective Resistance: A Primer for Concerned Educators (Myers Education Press, 2019)
- *Received the 2019 American Educational Studies Association's Critic's Choice Award and Recipient of the 2020 Society ofProfessors of Education Outstanding Book Award
- Teach For All Counter-Narratives: International Perspectives on a Global Reform Movement (Peter Lang, 2020),
- Homeschooling: A Guidebook of Practices, Claims, Issues, and Implications (Brill, 2021).
- The Commodification of American Education: Persistent Threats and Paths Forward (Myers Education Press, 2021) *Received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Society ofProfessors of Education Outstanding Book Award
He is a frequent guest on, and has had his work cited by, various NPR shows (Marketplace, Code Switch), NPR affiliates (WABE 90.1 Atlanta, NPR Illinois), Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Truthout, Black Agenda Report, Education Week, Atlanta Blackstar, WalletHub, NationSwell, The Real News Network, The State of Education (KVOI AM Radio), The Rick Smith Show, and has provided expert witness testimony before the Illinois State Senate.
