Deborah L. Schussler
Deborah L. Schussler
Education
Biography
Deborah Schussler is an associate professor of education in Penn State’s College of Education. She is also an affiliate at the Prevention Research Center. She was a high school English teacher for five years before becoming a teacher educator.
Schussler’s research interests include exploring how prospective teachers acquire the necessary dispositions to meet the needs of all learners. Specifically, she has examined the epistemological nature of dispositions and how teacher education fosters awareness of dispositions to enhance prospective teachers’ knowledge, skills, and moral sensibilities.
Schussler is currently the secretary/treasurer of the Moral Development SIG. She also chairs the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education TEAM-C (Teacher Education as a Moral Community) taskforce.