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Guillermo Marini, a PhD graduate in the Philosophy and Education program, has been busy teaching Multidisciplinary Analysis of Education and Philosophy and Education in Chile at the School of Education of the Universidad Catolica de Chile, where he plans to continue working post-graduation.
Shaireen Rasheed is the Associate Professor of Education at C. W. Post Long Island University. She received her undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University in Philosophy, did her Master’s work at The New School in Philosophy, and earned her Ph.D. from TC’s Philosophy and Education program with a concentration in Urban Policy.
Professor Shaireen Rasheed of C. W. Post Long Island University’s Ph.D. work at TC focused on creating a curriculum of existentialist action in the classroom. A spiritual child of Maxine Green, Rasheed was delighted to have the master respond to her work when she presented at the Philosophy and Education program’s colloquium.
Carmen James is a Ph.D. student in the Philosophy and Education program at Teachers College, Columbia. This summer, with generous funding from Columbia University’s Institute for Latin American Studies (ILAS) for pre-dissertation research, I travelled to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The three-month investigation, entitled Constructing Culture: City, Space and Advocating for Humanity, aimed to understand the …
A long-standing element of its academic program, the Colloquium in Philosophy and Education is rooted in the centuries-old tradition of Philosophy as an academic discipline. The Colloquium represents a chance for students to experience a variety of perspectives that will help them examine such questions and concepts as “what is justice?” or “what does it …
A chance for students to experience a variety of perspectives that will help them examine philosophical questions and concepts, the Colloquium in Philosophy and Education meets about seven times each semester and welcomes notable scholars in the field from around the world to share their own point of view. November 17th’s session was a particularly …
Givanni is a Philosophy and Education Ph.D. candidate and recently began a two-year preceptorship in Columbia College’s Core Preceptor Program. A native of Puerto Rico, she has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the University of Puerto Rico and a Master’s in Philosophy from Columbia University. Givanni was a seventh, eight and ninth grade classroom …
Created in the immediate aftermath of World War I as a Peace Studies program, Columbia College’s Core Curriculum is the oldest of its kind in the country. Designed as a set of common courses required of all undergraduates, the Core’s hallmarks are communal learning (with all students encountering the same texts and issues concurrently) and …
Cristina Cammarano is a Philosophy and Education Ph.D. candidate and recently completed a two-year preceptorship in Columbia College’s Core Preceptor program. She is currently a full-time instructor in TC's Philosophy and Education program.
Ariana Stokas is the Assistant Dean of the College for Equity Initiatives, the Director of Bard Educational Opportunity Program and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. She holds an MA (Math Sciences and Computing) and a PhD (Philosophy and Education) from Teachers College. Stokas is an advisory board member on Learning Through …
“Power writing is about taking control of your life in this world. It’s about using the power you have that people absolutely do not want you to use.” This quote from To Be Heard director, producer, and teacher Roland Legiardi-Laura sums up the essence of why he and his fellow power writing teachers place so …
On June 28 and 29, TC hosted the first-ever PLATO Institute where 70+ scholars and practitioners from across the country and around the world (Turkey and Chile were both represented) gathered for a series of sessions focused on the pre-college instruction of Philosophy. The event was networking nirvana: trailblazers in the field attended, with the …
PLATO (Philosophical Learning and Teaching) was launched in 2010 by the Committee for Pre-College Instruction of Philosophy (CPIP) of the American Philosophical Association (APA) with the founding goal of creating and connecting the growing network of practitioners and scholars who are engaged in pre-college instruction of Philosophy. This June 28-29 will mark PLATO’s first Institute, …
TC students, colleagues and alumni create a chorus of gratitude, respect and congratulations on a tribute blog for retiring professor Dr. Robbie McClintock. Eloquent stories, insightful anecdotes and photos from all vintages round out the tribute to a most esteemed educator. Heralded for his “radical openness,” the John & Sue Ann Weinberg Chair in Historical …
“When I really want to kvell about Teachers College, I talk about our students,” says Susan Fuhrman in President’s Letter of the Spring 2011 issue of TC Today. Her comments kick off a special issue dedicated to student profiles, which once read, easily prove Fuhrman’s assertion that TC students are special both for their desire …
As one of Columbia’s graduate schools, the research of students at Teachers College is shaped by a practical and theoretical interest in pedagogy. Now, if we conceive of this inquiry as the learning of an art, say, the art of teaching, then we find ourselves in need of a variety of academic resources and experiences; …
“Personally I go uphill more firmly and surely than down.”(Michel de Montaigne, “On Educating Children”) On the kick-off night of the Creativity, Imagination + Innovation Symposium, TC Professors David Hansen and Megan Laverty of the Philosophy and Education department hosted a workshop on the significance of Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), one of the most influential …
Arts & Humanities students and faculty are in heavy rotation this season, presenting at the world’s leading academic conferences. Stay tuned for a series of articles that will recap these presentations and investigate TC’s impact on academia today.
On Friday afternoon, comics artist and TC doctoral student, Nick Sousanis, stood in front of a room of educators, art-educators, and artists, and conducted a discussion of the aesthetic, philosophical, and pedagogical elements that go into creating his comics. His images reject simple illustration, instead searching for ways to “use visual metaphor in a narrative …
I have not seen Maxine Greene since the final day of the life-changing course that I took with her last Fall: Education and the Aesthetic Experience. And now here she is, perched in the middle of the stage, one delicate hand grasping the other across her belly. She looks fabulous—dressed to the nines, lipstick, gold …
Liz Hoelzle
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Amy Wolf
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Spotlight on Philosophy and Education Alumna Shaireen Rasheed
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Research Spotlight: Philosophy and Education Alumna Shaireen Rasheed
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The Colloquium in Philosophy and Education
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Spotlight on Student Givanni Ildefonso: Teaching Philosophy Plus the Core Canon
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Pressible
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Self in the City: An Argentinean Exploration
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Fareth Gracemonger
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Michel de Montaigne's Philosophy of Education
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