Paul Gathercoal, Ph.D.

Paul Gathercoal is professor and Chair, of the Curriculum and Instruction Department in the College of Education at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. Previously he has served as professor and program director for curriculum & instruction and educational technology in the School of Education at California Lutheran University. Before receiving his Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Oregon, he taught in public schools in Oregon and South Australia and served as a State-wide curriculum consultant in the area of Media Studies. He has been in teacher preparation for the last twenty-five years, teaching at Flinders University, Sturt Campus, in Adelaide, South Australia, the University of Oregon and Gustavus Adolphus College, in St. Peter, Minnesota and California Lutheran University, in Thousand Oaks, California.