Rate My Professor Joe Ohlinger

Ohlinger's scholarly contributions appear in peer-reviewed outlets focused on curriculum studies, teacher education, and community engagement. He authored the chapter 'A Curriculum of Becoming' in the 2021 edited volume Hope and Joy in Education: Engaging Daisaku Ikeda Across Curriculum and Context, published by Teachers College Press. In a 2024 publication, he co-authored 'Farm to college: community engagement, learning and addressing food security while growing local foods on a Midwest college campus' in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, detailing a campus-based project involving teacher preparation faculty and extension educators. Additional works include 'The Belly of The Whale: Who Dares To Certify?' published in the Contemporary Education Journal in 2025, exploring autoethnography and teacher certification; 'Making Discussions Existentially Relevant to Students' in 2025; and a book review of Worth Striking For: Why Education Policy is Every Teacher's Concern in the Mid-Western Educational Researcher in 2022. Ohlinger has presented at conferences including the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, and the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. In 2019, he published an op-ed titled 'Democracy demands critical thought' in the Journal Gazette, emphasizing the role of critical thinking in social studies education.