Faculty Research Profiles: Walter Feinberg

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• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Grants
• Selected Publications

Research Biography

Degrees

• Ph.D., Philosophy, Boston University, 1965
• A.M., Philosophy, Boston University, 1962
• A.B., Boston University, Philosophy and Political Science, 1960

Key Professional Appointments

• Charles Dun Hardie Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, 2005--
• Professor of Philosophy of Education, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975--
• Founding Director, The University of Illinois Program for the Study of Cultural Values and Ethics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989-1994
• Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1967-1975
• Assistant Professor, Education, Oakland University, 1965-1967

Activities & Honors

• Co-founder, Institute of Philosophy of Education, Fudan University School of Philosophy, 2006- present
• John Dewey Lecturer, John Dewey Society, at AERA, John Dewey Society, 2006
• Charles D. Hardie Professor of Education, University of Illinois College of Education, College of Education, 2005- present
• Leader, Workshop on multicultural issues in education, St. Mary's College, 2002
• Board Member, National Society for the Study of Education, 2001-2005
• List of Exceptional Teachers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001-2002
• Critics Award for Educational and Democratic Theory, American Educational Studies Association, 2001
• Critics Choice, American Educational Studies Association, 2000- present
• Distinguished Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Program, 1998
• Member, Review Board, American Educational Research Journal, 1996-2003
• Review Board, Teachers College Record, Teachers College Record, 1995-2005
• Benton Scholar, University of Chicago, 1995-1996

Grants

• Principal Investigator, Current Initiatives to Teach Courses on Religion in Public Schools: Visions of American Citizenship Education, The Spencer Foundation, 2007
• Principal Investigator, School Choice Policies and Outcomes Around the Globe: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Limits to Choice in Liberal Democracies, International Program Studies (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation), 2005
• Co-Principal Investigator, Illinois Project for Democratic Accountabilty, Campus Research Board, 2004
• Principal Investigator, Summer Doctoral Training Institutes in Philosophy of Education, The Spencer Foundation (Stanford University), 2002
• Principal Investigator, Religious Instruction and Moral Education, The Spencer Foundation, 2001
• Principal Investigator, Analysis of the Debate over Religious Instruction and Moral Education, Campus Research Board, 2001
• Principal Investigator, Analysis of Debate Over Religious Instruction and Moral Education, Campus Research Board, 2000
• Fellow, Visiting Lecturership, University of Ulster, 1999

Selected Publications

• Feinberg, W and Lubienski, C. School Choce. (forthcoming), Albany: SUNY Press.
• Feinberg. W. (2006) For Goodness Sake: Religious Schools and Education for Democratic Citizenry, New York London: Routledge
• For Goodness Sake: Religious Education and the Formation of Democratic Citizens
• Feinberg, W. (2003). Affirmative Action. In Hugh Lafollette, Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics (ed.) 272-300. Oxford University Press. 272-300.
• McDonough, K. and Feinberg, W. (eds.) (2003). Education and Citizenship in Liberal Democratic Societies. Oxford, Oxford University Press.