Session
III:
Wexner Center for the Arts, 7pm
The Ohio State University
1871 North High Street Columbus, Ohio
614 292-3535
Dr. Nicholas
Burbules is a full professor in the Department of Educational Policy
Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He holds a joint
appointment with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Areas
of interest are Philosophy of Education, Educational Policy and
Technology Studies in Education. He actively participates as Editor of
Educational Theory, Series editor of Philosophy, Theory, and
Educational Research and co-founder, Educational Review.
Published Books:
- Watch IT: The Promises and Risks of New Information Technologies for Education (2000)
- Postpositivism and Educational Research (2000)
- Dialogue in Teaching: Theory and Practice (1993)
- Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives (2000), editor
- Teaching and Its Predicaments (1997), editor
- Philosophy of Education (1986), editor
Dr. Burbules awards:
- Bell Atlantic Best Paper Award in Spring 2000
- Selected as a University Scholar at U.I.U.C. in 1998 · Selected as a ÒYoung leader of the AcademyÓ by Change Magazine in 1998
- Dialogue in Teaching: Theory and Practice (1993) was chosen for the American Educational
- Studies Association ÒCriticsÕ ChoiceÓ Award in 1993.
Education:
- B.A. in Philosophy of Religious Studies, Grinnell College, 1975
- M.A. in Philosophy, Stanford University, 1979
- Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education, Stanford University, 1983.
The website of Dr. Nicholas C. Burbules is http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/
