Welcome to my webpage. I am a member of the Faculty of Education at Queen's University, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Philosophy. I completed my Masters and PhD in Philosophy of Education at the University of Illinois
in 2004. My current research interests are in the history of
educational ideas, Pragmatism and educational theory--especially John
Dewey, Pragmatism and Continental Philosophy in conversation, and modes
of inquiry in science, social science, aesthetics, and politics. I have recently written three
books, Inquiry and Education: John Dewey and the Quest for Democracy (SUNY Press: 2006); Regaining Consciousness: Self-Consciousness
and Self-Cultivation from 1781-Present (VDM: 2008); and Deweyan Inquiry: from
Educational Theory to Practice (SUNY Press: 2009). A fourth book with Rosa
Bruno-Jofre, Gonzalo Jover Olmeda, and Daniel Trohler entitled, Democracy and the Intersection of Religion
and Tradition: the Reading of John Dewey’s Understanding of Democracy and
Education will be published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2010. I have recently published journal
articles in Educational Theory, Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce
Society, Studies in the Philosophy of
Education, the Journal of Philosophy
of Education, and Encounters in
Education.