Robert W. Burke, PhD

Robert W. Burke, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he teaches and coordinates the Early Childhood Education Program in the Department of Teacher Education. Previously, Bob was a professor of elementary education at Ball State University in Indiana for eleven years.  Prior to his work in academia he was a teacher in grades K-5 for twelve years; and, for seven years before that, Bob was both a juvenile probation officer and milieu therapist in a residential treatment center for troubled children and adolescents.

Bob’s integrated teaching, research, and service agendas examine the intersection among the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and contextual features of life in elementary schools. Stemming in part from the “boundary spanning” nature of his own personal, educational and professional experiences, Bob endeavors to illuminate and understand what he identifies as “The Psychosocial Curriculum” comprised of  the mental health and educational elements and dynamics experienced by teachers and children and inherent to life in classrooms.