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Randall Curren

Randall Curren

Professor (joint appointment; main affiliation: Department of Philosophy, the College)
Educational Leadership

Lattimore 532
Office Phone: (585) 275-8112
RCURREN@mail.rochester.edu

Education:

PhD, University of Pittsburgh (philosophy)
MA, University of Pittsburgh (philosophy)
BA, University of New Orleans (philosophy)
Randall Curren is a professor and chair of the philosophy department and holds a secondary appointment in the Warner School’s educational leadership program. Curren, who joined the University’s faculty in 1988, works with doctoral students in the educational policy and theory program and teaches courses in philosophy of education and education ethics at Warner.

Curren’s work in the philosophy and ethics of education focuses on matters of educational equity, justice, and rights; sustainability and development; the relationships between education, authority, and law; and human practices, well-being, and the nature of education. A former Mellon Fellow, Newcombe Fellow, Spencer Fellow, and Andrew Mellon Instructor in Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology, Curren has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Spencer Foundation. He is a past president of the Association for Philosophy of Education, has served on the Ethics Committee of the AERA, and chaired the American Philosophical Association Committee on Teaching.

He has published numerous chapters in books, journal articles, reviews, notes, and encyclopedia entries. His current projects include a co-authored book with historian, Charles Dorn, on patriotism and civic education and a co-authored book with geologist and teacher educator, Ellen Metzger, on education and sustainability. He is the author of Aristotle on the Necessity of Public Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) and Education for Sustainable Development: A Philosophical Assessment (2009), and editor of A Companion to the Philosophy of Education (Blackwell, Ltd., 2003; 2006) and Philosophy of Education: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2007). He is also the co-editor of Theory and Research in Education (Sage), a journal of educational philosophy and theory.

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ED411 Philosophy of Education
ED428 Ethics and Education



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