UNC School of Education

>> Gulledge, Suzanne

In the area of curriculum studies, Suzanne Gulledge has conducted research and published articles on teaching religion in public education, on service learning and on advisor/advisee programs in middle schools.  Grounded in the integration of teaching and learning, her work centers on practice-based research.  She has studied professional development schools and models for in-service education and made numerous local and national presentations on strategies used by the International Social Studies Project ─ an initiative that helps secondary social studies teachers remain informed and equipped to teach in a world that changes more rapidly than published textbooks and curriculum materials.

The integration of performance arts with social studies education is an area in which Gulledge has developed curricular materials.  She designed a series of teacher workshops and wrote instructional materials to support teaching about such topics as the Cold War and apartheid. Working with a professional theater director, she helped stage critically acclaimed plays on these issues that were presented in local school districts. She obtained several grants and awards for her work with the Global Arts Initiative, including a North Carolina Humanities Council Grant and a Global Curriculum Grant.  She received the Bounds Educational Leadership Award and served as president of the College and University Professors Association of the North Carolina Council for the Social Studies in 2001.