Rate My Professor Jacquelyn Benchik-Osborne

Benchik-Osborne's research specializations encompass democratic teaching and classroom practices within the social foundations of education, integrating students' voice, perspective, and point-of-view in the Deweyan tradition of classrooms, literacies across all subject disciplines, and social and emotional learning in STEM for elementary and middle-level students. Her key publications include the book "Utilizing Artifacts to Engage in Deeper Thinking in the Elementary Classroom: A Qualitative Case Study" (2025), the conference paper "Why and How to Teach Democratically: Teacher Candidate Perspectives From Two Minority-Serving Universities" (2023), "SOEs with SFE: Forwarding the Work of the Liberal Arts in Democratic Community" (2021), "An Empirical Study: To What Extent and In What Ways Does Social Foundations of Education Inform Four Teachers’ Educational Beliefs and Classroom Practices?" (2013), and reviews of "The New Politics of the Textbook: Problematizing the Portrayal of Marginalized Groups in Textbooks" (2014) and "Teacher Assessment and the Quest for Teacher Quality: A Handbook" (2011). She contributed a case study to "Democracy and Decency: What Does Education Have to Do with It?". Benchik-Osborne serves on the editorial team of Higher Education Studies by the Canadian Center of Science and Education and has presented at the 2025 International Learning Assistant Conference.