Professional Background
Professor of Philosophy & Education
Educational Background
B.A., University of Chicago; M.A., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Scholarly Interests
Philosophy of education. Teaching and teacher education. Moral and ethical issues in educational practice. Philosophical foundations of inquiry.
Selected Publications
* “Curriculum and the Idea of a Cosmopolitan Inheritance” (Journal of Curriculum Studies 40, no. 3 (2008): 289-312).
* Ethical Visions of Education: Philosophies into Practice (Teachers College Press, 2007).
* John Dewey and Our Educational Prospect: A Critical Engagement with Dewey’s Democracy and Education (
* “A Poetics of Teaching” (Educational Theory 54 (2004): 119-142).

David Hansen
Professor of Philosophy & Education
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