Barbara Thayer-Bacon, Ph.D.

Professor

Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon, Ph.D. (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN) teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on philosophy and history of education, social philosophy and cultural diversity.  Her primary research areas are:  philosophy of education, pragmatism, feminist theory and pedagogy, and cultural studies in education. She is an active member in numerous professional organizations, such as American Educational Research Association, American Educational Studies Association, and Philosophy of Education Society, and presents papers regularly at their annual conferences.  She is past president for the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society and past president for Philosophical Studies in Education and the Research on Women and Education, 2 Special Interest Groups for AERA.  She is the author of several chapters in essay collections and over fifty journal articles, published in professional journals such as The Journal of Thought, Educational Theory, Studies in Philosophy and Education, Inquiry, Educational Foundations, and Educational Studies.  She has written three books, Philosophy Applied to Education:  Nurturing a Democratic Community in the Classroom, with Dr. Charles S. Bacon as contributing author (Upper Saddle River, NJ and Columbus, OH:  Merrill Publishing, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998);  Transforming Critical Thinking:  Constructive Thinking  (New York, NY:  Teachers College Press, 2000); and Relational “(e)pistemologies”  (New York, NY:  Peter Lang, 2003). She has recently completed her fourth book, Beyond Liberal Democracy:  Diverse Educational Relations in Democracies-Always-in-the-Making.

Recent Publications

Thayer-Bacon, B.  (in press).  Beyond Liberal Democracy: Diverse Educational Relations, Paideusis. Thayer-Bacon, B.  (in press).  Beyond Liberal Democracy:  Dewey's Renascent Liberalism, Education and Culture. Thayer-Bacon, B.  (2006).  Shared authority in democratic classrooms:  Communities-always-in-the-making, In Cooper, K. and White, R. (Eds.),  The practical critical educator:  Critical inquiry and educational practice, pp. 95-109.  Amsterdam, The Netherlands:  Springer. Thayer-Bacon, B.  (2005).  Peirce on education:  Discussion of Peirce’s definition of a university, Studies in Philosophy and Education, 24:  317-325.  Special issue on Charles Sanders Peirce

 

Updated 07/01/2008

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