University of North Texas 
Daniel Krutka
he/him/his
Faculty, Teacher Education and Administration
Matthews Hall 206-Q
Daniel G. Krutka, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Social Studies Education in the Department of Teacher Education and Administration. A former high school social studies teacher in Oklahoma City, his research interests concern intersections of technology, education, and democracy. Dr. Krutka has authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Computers & Education, Theory & Research in Social Education, and Teaching & Teacher Education among others. He was the lead editor of the 2018 book, "Keywords in the Social Studies: Concepts and Conversations" published in the Counterpoints: Studies in Criticality series by Peter Lang. He was awarded the 2016 Early Career Award by the Technology as an Agent of Change in Teaching and Learning special interest group (SIG) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the 2017 Outstanding Research Paper Award from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the 2021 McJulien Scholar Award from International Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), and the 2023 National Technology Leadership Initiative (NTLI) Fellowship Award from the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). He is past chair of the Social Studies Research SIG of AERA and a past board member for the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS). He also hosts the Visions of Education podcast (VisionsOfEd.com) and founded the Civics of Technology project (CivicsOfTechnology.org). He earned his doctorate from the University of Oklahoma.
Pleasants, J., Krutka, D.G., & Nichols, T.P. (2023). What Relationships do we want with technology? Toward technoskepticism in schools. Harvard Educational Review, 93(4), 486-515.
Krutka, D. G., Metzger, S. A., & Seitz, R. Z. (2022). “Technology inevitably involves trade-offs”: The framing of technology in social studies standards. Theory & Research in Social Education, 50(2), 226-254.
Hlavacik, M., &Krutka, D. G. (2021). Deliberation can wait: How civic litigation makes inquiry critical. Theory &Research in Social Education, 49(3), 418-448.
Krutka, D. G., Smits, R. M., &Willhelm, T. A. (2021). Don’t be evil: Should we use Google in schools? TechTrends, 65, 421-431.
Krutka, D. G., Manca, S., Galvin, S. M., Greenhow, C., Koehler, M. J., &Askari, E. (2019). Teaching “against” social media: Confronting problems of profit in the curriculum. Teachers College Record, 121(14), 1-42.
Krutka, D. G., Whitlock, A. M., &Helmsing, M., (Eds) (2018). Keywords in the social studies: Concepts and conversations. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
