Alumni - Doctoral Program

Rebecca Sullivan is a PhD student in the Philosophy and Education program. She earned her B.A. in Philosophy and English Literature from the University of Notre Dame. After working for a few years in the human service professions, she has returned to the formal study of philosophy to deepen her understanding of personhood and the intersection of philosophy and education that happens through everyday actions and encounters.

The title of her masters thesis was: "Bearing Witness to a Knowledge of Encounter: The Power of Perspective in Babette's Feast."

Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Bergen Community College

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Supervisor of Student Teaching, Catholic University of America

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Assistant Professor of Education, Co-Director of Education, Alaska Pacific University

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North, B. B. (2022). Refusing the University, But Not Philosophy. Philosophy of Education 78 (3):192-196.

North, B. B. (2019). Toward Promoting Humanity: Intellectual Virtues and Moral Responsibility. Philosophy of Education 75:461-466.

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Pastor, First Baptist Church of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York

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Moore, R. R. (2021). “I Brought Him Here to Be My Friend: Hope, DuBois & Friendship in Historically Black Education” in Philosophy of Education, vol. 77, no. 4.

Moore, R. R. (2021). “An Ensouling Education” in Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion through Case-Based Inquiry, Rebecca M. Taylor and Ashley Floyd Kuntz, eds., Harvard Education Press. 

Moore, R. R. (2020). “Dear God, At What Cost? Toward a Theology of Historically Black Education” in LAPIZ (Annual Publication of the Latin American Philosophy of Education Society), vol. 7.

Dissertation Title

Ignorance and Irony: The Role of Not-Knowing in Becoming a Person

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Management Consultant at McKinsey and Company

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Quek, Yibing (2022). Moral Precarity of Teaching in Neoliberal Times—and Why the Public Should Care with Teachers. Philosophy of Education 78 (1):156-168.

Quek, Yibing (2021). An Interpretation of the 2019 Chicago Teachers’ Strike Through the Ethics of Care. Studies in Philosophy and Education 40 (6):609-627.

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Adjunct Instructor and a Freelance Editor

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Buck, B. and Longa, R. (2020), “Make the Education of the Youths Our Own Education”: Plato's Laches, a Dialogue for Educators. Educ Theory, 70: 199-213.

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Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Education, College of Education, University of Washington

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Assistant Professor, Education Policy, Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Maxwell, B., Boon, H., Tanchuk, N., & Rauwerda, B. (2021). Adaptation and validation of a test of ethical sensitivity in teaching. Journal of Moral Education, 50(3), 267-292.

Tanchuk, N., Rocha, T., & Krus, M. (2021). Is Comprehensive Liberal Social Justice Education Brainwashing? Philosophy of Education, 77(2), 44-59.

Tanchuk, N. (2020). Is Inquiry Learning Unjust? Cognitive Load Theory and the Democratic Ends of Education. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54(5), 1167-1185.

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Philosophy Instructor, Western Governors University

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Assistant Professor of Education and the Coordinator of the Graduate Program at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York

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Ostrow-Michel, Jessica, LeAnn M. Holland, Claudine Brunnquell, and Stephen Sterling. "Transformative Sustainability Learning." Special Issue. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2020.

Holland, LeAnn M. "A Philosophy of Weather: How We Learn in an Elemental, Aesthetic Environment." Dissertation. Columbia University, 2018.

Holland, LeAnn M. "Reconsidering the 'Ped' in Pedagogy: A Walking Education." Philosophy of Education Archive, 2018. 64-73.

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Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Foundations and Policy Studies, West Chester University

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Director of the Prison Education Program at Eastern University

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Department Chair and Assistant Professor, Education Department at the University of Dallas

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Jonas, Mark E. and Nakazawa, Yoshiaki M. A Platonic Theory of Moral Education: Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms (New York: Routledge) 2021.

Jonas, Mark E., Yoshiaki M. Nakazawa, and James Braun. "Appetite, Reason, and Education in Socrates’ ‘City of Pigs’." Phronesis 57.4 (2012): 332-357.

Patrick Comstock passed away in 2022 in an unfortunate accident. We miss him dearly and remember him fondly.

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Lead Instructional Designer for Online Education, General Assemb.ly

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Hansen, David T. and James, Carmen. "The importance of cultivating democratic habits in schools: enduring lessons from Democracy and Education." Journal of Curriculum Studies. 48.1 (2016): 94.

James, Carmen. "Review of Character Compass: How Powerful School Culture Can Point Students Toward Success by Scott Seider." Teachers College Record 17733 (2014).

James, Carmen. "Review of Cognitive Capital: Investing in Teacher Quality by Arthur L. Costa, Robert J. Garmston, & Diane P. Zimmerman." Teachers College Record 17498 (2014).

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Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence and Associate Professor of Education, Lawrence University

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Hansen, David T., Stephanie Burdick-Shepherd, Cristina Cammarano, and Gonzalo Obelleiro. "Education, Values, and Valuing in Cosmopolitan Perspective." Curriculum Inquiry 39.5 (2009): 587-612.

Burdick-Shepherd, Stephanie, "Deep Education: Perception as Educational Response." Creative Engagements: Thinking with Children. Ed. Daniel Shepherd. Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2005.

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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Hofstra University

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Schapira, M. (2014). Historical perspectives on the crisis of the university (Order No. 3620415). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global. (1538017410). Retrieved from http://eduproxy.tc-library.org/?url=/docview/1538017410?accountid=14258

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Part time lecturer at Waseda University in Tokyo

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Yoda, Kazuaki (2017). An Approach to Simone Weil’s Philosophy of Education Through the Notion of Reading. Studies in Philosophy and Education 36 (6):663-682.

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Instructional Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies in the College of Education, DePaul University

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Obelleiro, G. (forthcoming) “Cosmopolitanism.” in L. Stone (Ed.) Handbook of Philosophy of Education. Boston: Cengage Learning/Macmillan.

Obelleiro, G. (forthcoming) “Democracy without telos: On preparing for a future uncertain.” L. Waks, A. English (Eds.) Democracy and Education Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Obelleiro, G. (2013) “Cosmopolitan Dialogue in an Interconnected, Ever Changing World” in O. Urbain (Ed.) Daisaku Ikeda and Dialogue for Peace. London: I.B. Taurus.

Obelleiro, G. (2012) “A Moral Cosmopolitan Perspective on Language Education.” Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. Vol. 9, Issue 1-2.

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Studying Social Work at Ben Gurion University of the Negev

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Post, Dror. "A Hope for Hope: The Role of Hope in Education." Philosophy of Education Yearbook (2006): 271-79. http://ojs.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/pes/article/viewFile/1551/289

Post, Dror. "Heraclitus’s hope for the unhoped." Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy 13.2 (2008): 229-240.

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Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration, West Chester University of Pennsylvania 

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Backer, D. I. (2022). Toxic finance. Dissent Magazine, online: https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/toxic-finance

Backer, D. I., & Cairns, K. (2021). Social reproduction theory revisited. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 42(7), 1086-1104.

Backer, D. (2020). School funding inequality in Pennsylvania: A base-superstructure analysis. Pennsylvania Educational Leadership Journal, 39(2), 35-61.

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Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education, Hunter College, CUNY

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Furman, C. (2024). Teaching from an Ethical Center: Practical Wisdom for Daily Instruction. Harvard, MA: Harvard Educational Press.

Furman, C. & Karno, D. (2023) Teacher Talk in an Early Educator Blog: Building Culture Circles for Exploring Ethics. Ethics and Education.

Furman, C. (2023). “Eavesdropping Books as Testimony: Witnessing Secondhand Crimes Against Humanity with Young Children.” Educational Theory.

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Associate Professor of Education and Director, SOE International Programs

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Hayden, Matthew J. Cosmopolitan Education and Moral Education: Forging Moral Beings Under Conditions of Global Uncertainty. Diss. Columbia University, 2012.

Hayden, Matthew J. "Arendt and Cosmopolitanism: The Human Conditions of Cosmopolitan Teacher Education." Ethics & Global Politics 5.4 (2013).

Hayden, Matthew J. "What Do Philosophers of Education Do? An Empirical Study of Philosophy of Education Journals." Studies in Philosophy and Education 31.1 (2011): 1-27.

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Associate Professor at the School of Education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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Marini, G. & Mondragon, H. (2023). Construir y habitar la escuela [To build and to dwell in school]. Santiago: Ediciones UC.

Mondragon, H., & Marini, G. (2022). Open-Air schools: Architectures for Care and Education. ARQ, (109), 114-127.

Marini, G. (2021). An introduction to everyday aesthetics in education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 40(1), 39-50.

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Associate Professor of Education and Language Acquisition, City University of New York

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M., Ildefonso-Sánchez Givanni. "Educating the Multicultural Gaze through Leisure." OMNES 6.2 (2016): 49. Web.

Ildefonso, Givanni M. "Not a laughing matter: The value of leisure in education." Curriculum Inquiry 41.1 (2011): 48-56.

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President of Creighton University

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Jesuit Higher Education in a Secular Age: A Response to Charles Taylor and the Crisis of Fullness (2022).

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Adjunct Faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University

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Associate Professor of Philosophy, Fulton School of Liberal Arts, Salisbury University

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Cammarano, Cristina. Philosophizing as Education. vol. Volume 3, Spring 2021. pp. 5-20. Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice.

Cammarano, Cristina and Stutelberg, Erin B. (2020). “Through serpent and eagle eyes”: Teachers as handlers of memory. Reimagining Research and Practice at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Teaching, and Teacher Education. vol. 122. no. 4. Teacher’s College Record.

Cammarano, Cristina. (2018). “Sweetness Follows. Notes on the Pedagogy of Critique in a Philosophy of Education Course.” in Megan Laverty (ed.), Philosophy of Education.

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Research Scholar, Digital Futures Institute, Teachers College

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Moffett, Chris. Forthcoming. “Playing with Fire: Rethinking Play and Technology Today.” The Journal of New Child Studies.

Lewis, Tyson E., and Chris Moffett. 2022. “Educational Soundings: A Cryptogenealogy of Sounding Differently.” Postdigital Science and Education.

Moffett, Chris. 2021. “The Play of Art: Propensity and Pedagogy in Contemporary Chinese Early Childhood Education.” Studies in Art Education 62 (3): 222–35.

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Associate Professor, Educational Studies, College of Education and Human Ecology

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Winston C. Thompson & John Tillson, Eds., Pedagogies of Punishment: The Ethics of Discipline in Education, London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, (2023).

Winston C. Thompson, Ed., Philosophical Foundations of Education, London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, (2023).

Winston C. Thompson, “More than Race: Mills, Ethnicity, and Education,” Theory and Research in Education, DOI:10.1177/14778785231162, (2023).

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Associate Professor in the School of Education, University of Colorado Boulder

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Wilson, Terri S. "Exploring the Moral Complexity of School Choice: Philosophical Frameworks and Contributions." Studies in Philosophy and Education 34.2 (2014): 181-91.

Wilson, Terri S., and Matthew A. Ryg. "Becoming Autonomous: Nonideal Theory and Educational Autonomy." Educational Theory 65.2 (2015): 127-150.

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Professor of Education, St. Lawrence University

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Frank, J. (2023). Rethinking the purposes of schooling in a global pandemic: From learning loss to a renewed appreciation for mourning and human excellence. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 42(1), 5-16.

Frank, J. (2022). Failures of imagination: Racial justice in philosophy and education. Theory and Research in Education, 20(1), 125-129.

Frank, J. (2021). The adventure of responsive teaching: Lessons from Cora and Julie Diamond. Ethics and Education, 16(1), 20-35.

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DEI Consultant

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Stokas, A. G. (2015), A Genealogy of Grit: Education in the New Gilded Age. Educational Theory, 65: 513–528. doi: 10.1111/edth.12130.

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Professor of Education and Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy), Wheaton College

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Jonas, Mark E. and Yacek, Douglas W. On the Edge of Their Seats: What the Best Teachers Do to Engage and Inspire Their Students (Chicago: Post & Lintel Books) 2024.

Yacek, Douglas W., Jonas, Mark E. and Gary, Kevin H. Moral Education in the 21^st Century (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press) 2023.

Jonas, Mark E. and Nakazawa, Yoshiaki M. A Platonic Theory of Moral Education: Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms (New York: Routledge) 2021.

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Co-founder of an educational tech firm called Teachur.

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Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution

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Transforming education systems: Why, what, and how | Brookings

Collaborating to transform and improve education systems: A playbook for family-school engagement | Brookings

Leapfrogging Inequality | Brookings

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Associate Professor at University of Tulsa, Department of Educational Studies

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“Why did Socrates Deny that he was a Teacher? Locating Socrates among the new educators and the traditional education in Plato’s Apology of Socrates,” Educational Philosophy and Theory 46(7), July 2014, pp. 735-747.

“The Happy and Suffering Student? Rousseau’s Emile and the path not taken in progressive educational thought,” Educational Theory 62(3), June 2012, pp. 249-265.

“Four Educators in Plato’s Theaetetus,” Journal of Philosophy of Education 45(4), November 2011, pp. 657-673.

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Program Director and a Senior Lecturer for the Master of Liberal Arts program, Johns Hopkins University

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“Humanism and Education,” a chapter in A History of Western Philosophy of Education in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by Kevin Gary, 121-144, Vol. 2 of A History of Western Philosophy of Education, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

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Associate Professor, SUNY New Paltz Department of Educational Studies

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2012 “Immanuel Kant’s Account of Cognitive Experience and Human Rights Education,” Educational Theory, Vol. 62, No. 2, 185-201.

2011 “The Critical Humanisms of Dorothy Dinnerstein and Immanuel Kant Employed for Responding to Gender Bias: A Study, and an Exercise, in Radical Critique,” Studies in Philosophy and Education, Vol. 30, No. 4, 385-402.

2011 “Kant’s Conception of Respect and African American Education Rights,” Educational Theory, Vol. 61, No. 1, 17-40.

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Humanities & History Faculty, Portsmouth Abbey School

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De Marzio, Darryl M. (ed.) (2020). David Hansen and the Call to Teach: Renewing the Work That Teachers Do. New York, NY: Teachers College Press.

De Marzio, Darryl M. "What Happens in Philosophical Texts: Matthew Lipman's Theory and Practice of the Philosophical Text as Model." Childhood & Philosophy 7, no. 13 (2011): 29-47.

De Marzio, Darryl M. "The Teacher’s Gift of Sacrifice as the Art of the Self," Philosophy of Education Yearbook (2010): 166-173.

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Professor, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, Adelphi University

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Sinha, S. (2015), The Discourse of Humanness at the Intersection of Color-Blindness and Race Awareness. Philosophical Studies in Education, 46, 121-133.

Sinha, S. (2013), Derrida, Friendship and Responsible Teaching in Contrast to Effective Teaching. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45 (3), 259-271.

Sinha, S. (2010), Dialogue as a Site of Transformative Possibility. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 29 (5), 459-475.

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Director of Programs, Center for Business Ethics, Bentley University, Founder and Executive Director of Applied Ethics, Inc.

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“Reflections on the Importance of Business for Peace in 21st-Century Peacebuilding”

“The Global Compact's Inaugural Business for Peace Annual Event Prelude to a Movement?”

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Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Iona University

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Stillwaggon, J. and Jelinek, D. (2016) Filmed School: Desire, Transgression and the Filmic Fantasy of Pedagogy. London: Routledge Books.

Stillwaggon, J. (2010) "Inviolable Laws, Impossible to Keep: Orwell on Education, Suffering and the Loss of Childhood." Educational Theory, (60)1, 61-80.

Stillwaggon, J. (forthcoming)" The Indirection of Influence: Poetics and Pedagogy in Plato and Aristotle." Journal of Aesthetic Education.

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Professor of Education, Chair of Education Department at Bowdoin College

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Santoro, D. A. & Cain, L., eds. (2018). Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas. Harvard Education Press.

Santoro, D. A. (2018). Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay. Harvard Education Press.

Santoro, D. A. & Wilson, T. S., eds. (2015). Philosophical Enquiry through Empirical Research. Studies in Philosophy and Education 34, no. 2.

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Assistant Dean, Associate Professor/Lecturer, Honors College, University of Utah

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"Self-Creation or Choosing the Self: A Critique of Richard Rorty’s Idea of Democratic

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Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor and Worldwide Secretary for Jesuit Education

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Mesa, Jose. Moral Education in the Age of Individualism: Community, the Individual, and the Challenge of Moral Education. Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008. Print.

Jaramillo, Rosario, and José A. Mesa. "Citizenship Education as a Response to Colombia’s Social and Political Context." Journal of Moral Education 38.4 (2009): 467-87. Web.

Mesa, Jose. "The International Apostolate of Jesuit Education: Recent Developments and Contemporary Challenges." International Studies in Catholic Education 5.2 (2013): 176-89. Web. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19422539.2013.821339#.VunWA8f5Hc 

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Playwright, Actor, Producer, and Filmmaker

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The Secret Life of the Artist Mom was published the first time in Role Mommy.

Miniskirt Dilemma: Hellion Magazine.

There's Sex in Mommyville? A Chat with Playwright Anna Fishbeyn.

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Professor and Head, Department of International Education and Lifelong Learning Hong Kong Institute of Education

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Mason, M (2014) Culture in international and comparative education research: conceptual and methodological issues. In A. Reid, P. Hart & M. Peters (Eds.) A Companion to Research in Education (319-331). Dordrecht: Springer.

Mason, M. (2009) Making Educational Development and Change Sustainable: Insights from Complexity Theory. International Journal of Educational Development 29 (2), 117-24.

Mason, M. (2005) A Justification, after the Postmodern Turn, of Universal Ethical Principles and Educational Ideals. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 37 (6), 799-815.

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Retired, Adjunct Professor at The University of Waikato, New Zealand and Chief Consultant to the Institute for Edusemiotic Studies, Melbourne, Australia.

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Semetsky, Inna, and Diana Masny. Deleuze and education. Edinburgh University Press, 2013.

Semetsky, Inna. "Nomadic Education: Variations on a theme by Deleuze and Guattari." (2008). Semetsky, Inna, ed. Semiotics education experience. Sense, 2010.

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Professor of Education, Post Campus Long Island University

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Kamler, Estelle, and Shaireen Rasheed. "Mentoring academic women: struggles for advancement and strategies for change." Research and Practice in Social Sciences 2.1 (2006): 1-15.

Rasheed, Shaireen. "The Existential Concept of Freedom for Maxine Greene: The Influence of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on Greene's Educational Pedagogy." Philosophy of Education Archive (2002): 394-401.

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Professor in Department of Education at Seoul National University

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Kwak, D. J. (2016), "Ethics of Learning and Self-knowledge: Two Cases in the Socratic and Confucian Teachings." Educational Philosophy and Theory, special issue, Vol. pp.7-23.

Kwak, D. J. (2011), Education for Self-transformation: Essay Form as an Educational Practice, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London & New York: Springe.

Kwak, D. J. (2010), "Practicing Philosophy, Practice of Education: Exploring the Essay Form through Lukács’ Soul and Form." Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vo. 44 No. 1, pp. 61-77.

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Director of Teaching and Learning, Part-Time Faculty, Philosophy Department, Bridgewater State University

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Torosyan, R. (2014) Book review: Becoming a critically reflective teacher. By Stephen D. Brookfield. In Currents in Teaching and Learning 6 (2).

Torosyan, R. (2013). The Daily Show way: Critical thinking, civic discourse and postmodern consciousness. Refereed chapter in J. Holt (Ed.). The Ultimate Daily Show and philosophy: More moments of Zen, more indecision theory (pp. 181-196). West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Torosyan, R. (2009). Things that make you go “what?” Colbert as anti-critical thinker. Refereed chapter in Schiller, A. A. (Ed.), Stephen Colbert and philosophy: I am philosophy (and so can you!) (pp. 29-49). Chicago: Open Court Press.

A Faculty Learning Community on Mindfulness Discusses Experiences (with Minae Savas, Kristine Keay, Lydia Burak, and Christine Brown), CARS May Celebrations (2013)

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Private Psychotherapy Practice, Psychotherapist at Veterans Administration Hospital

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Endres, Ben, "Education for Economic Life: The Role of Communicative Action," Teachers College Record, v108 n10 p2001-2020 Oct 2006.

Endres, B. (2001), "A Critical Read on Critical Literacy: From Critique to Dialogue as as Ideal for Literacy Education." Educational Theory, 51: 401–413. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2001.00401.x

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The City College of NY, Associate Professor, Acting Chief, User Services & Information Literacy Librarian

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Dhawan, Amrita. "Spectators or Patriots? Citizens in the Information Age." International Journal of Progressive Education. (Forthcoming 2016).

Dhawan, Amrita, and Ching-Jung j Chen. "Library instruction for first-year students." Reference Services Review 42.3 (2014): 414-432.

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Paul Standish and Naoko Saito  (eds), Stanley Cavell and Philosophy as Translation: The Truth is Translated (London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). 

Naoko Saito and Paul Standish (eds), Stanley Cavell and the Education of Grownups (New York: Fordham University Press, 2012).

Naoko Saito, The Gleam of Light: Education and Moral Perfectionism in Dewey and Emerson (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005).