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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 (State University of New York Press, 2006).

*  “A Poetics of Teaching” (Educational Theory 54 (2004): 119-142).


David Hansen

David Hansen

Professor of Philosophy & Education

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