Kristan Morrison

Kristan Morrison teaches foundations of education courses for undergraduate and graduate students and works with undergraduate Honors students on their capstone research. Morrison’s research focus is on self-directed learning (democratic free schools and unschooling) and she has widely published and presented, both on her own and with graduate and undergraduate Radford students.  

=Morrison has published a book (Free School Teaching with the State University of NY Press), book chapters (in Democracy and Decency and Hollywood Goes to College), and in numerous journals including International Journal of Multicultural Education, Journal of Thought, Educational Horizons, Rethinking Schools, and Equity & Excellence in Education.

Morrison has taught in both public and private middle schools (7^th grade Social Studies and Language Arts, 8^th grade History, 6^th-8^th grade gifted support specialist).  In 2015, Morrison received the Donald N. Dedmon Distinguished Teaching Professor award and in 2022 she was named a Dalton Eminent Scholar. Watch the video profile of Professor of Education Kristan Morrison as she describes her role as an educator.