Cultural Studies Faculty
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Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon
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 is working on her fourth
book, Beyond Liberal Democracy: Diverse Educational
Relations in Democracies-Always-in-the-Making, which she
hopes to see in print in 2007 with Teachers College Press.
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