est. 1995
The Athens Institute
A World Association of Academics and Researchers: Promoting Global Education & Research
1995-2025: 30 Years of Bringing Academics and Scholars together in Athens
Dr. Mervyn J. Wighting (Professor, Regent University, USA)
has accepted the offer from the Athens Institute to serve as the next Deputy Director of the Arts, Humanities and Education Division
Dr. Mervyn J. Wighting teaches in Regent University’s M.Ed. degree programs. He directs the university’s Career Switcher program for alternative teacher licensure and has been the Project Director for a $1.25 million federal Transition to Teaching grant. He currently teaches online sections of advanced classroom management to first-year teachers.
Prior to joining the Regent faculty, Dr. Wighting taught face-to-face and live television courses at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Wighting’s Ph.D. dissertation is in the field of classroom community and how it may be affected by technology, and he continues to explore the dynamics of learning communities. The current focus of his research is to investigate different aspects of school and classroom community in order to assist teachers to develop their instruction in ways that will connect with a diversity of learners.
Wighting is also pursuing a line of research that measures the relationships between teachers and their students to investigate whether a positive behavior intervention can improve the relationship, leading to better classroom management and a reduction in misbehavior.
As the Deputy Director, Dr. Wighting will collaborate with the Head of the Education Unit (Dr. Nick Linardopoulos, Associate Teaching Professor & Public Speaking Course Coordinator, Rutgers University, USA) and the Director of the Division (Dr. David Philip Wick, Retired Professor of History, Gordon College, USA) in the organization of all the conferences (small symposiums) organized by the Division and the Unit. He will also serve as associate editor of the Athens Journal of Education.
