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College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Research Profiles: Pradeep Dhillon

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Educational Policy Studies
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Research Biography

My research straddles philosophy of language (both Analytic and Continental) and mind, aesthetics, and international education. I have a strong interest in Kantian value theory as it relates to aesthetics,cognition,and human rights education. Currently, I am working in the areas of Kant's theory of judgement and Neuro-aesthetics, Neurophilosophy,and Education, and Environmental Aesthetics.I am the Editor for the Journal of Aesthetic Education, and serve as the Chair of Education for the American Society for Aesthetics.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Philosophy of Education, Stanford University, 1991
  • M.Ed., Theoretical Linguistics, Stanford University, 1983
  • M.A., Literature, Punjab University, 1974
  • B.A., Philosophy/History, Punjab University, 1970

Key Professional Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies/Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003--
  • Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997-2003
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign, 1994-1996
  • Instructor/Visiting Scholar, Program in Cultures,Idea, and Values/Comparative Literature, Stanford University, 1991-1994

Activities & Honors

  • Chair, Committee for Aesthetic Education, Committee for Aesthetic Education, at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Providence, Rhode Island, October 2005., American Society for Aesthetics, 2005
  • Editor, Journal invited to join JSTOR, University of Illinois Press, 2005
  • Reviewed funding proposal, Campus Research Board, 2003
  • Editor, Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2001
  • Guest Curator, with Eunice D. MacGuire (Curator, Johns Hopkins University), Art, Technology, and the World: "Traveling Design Kashmiri Shawls", Krannert Art Museum, 1999

Grants

  • Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, "Arts, Mind and Cognition", University of Maryland
  • Principal Investigator, For travel to present at the British Society for Aesthetics meeting, at Oxford University, Scholars Travel Fund

Selected Publications

  • "Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Critique: The Challenge from World Englishes," in HANDBOOK OF WORLD ENGLISHES, eds. Braj Kachru, Yamuna Kachru, and Cecil Nelson, Oxford, Blackwell Publishers, 2006.
  • "A Kantian Conception of Human Rights Education," in CRITICAL ISSUES IN GLOBAL EDUCATION, eds. Klas Roth and Ilan Gur'ev, (Kluwer Academic Press, 2007).
  • "Ethics in Language: The Case from World Englishes," World Englishes, August 2003, vol. 22, iss. 3, pp. 217-228(12) Blackwell Publishing Ltd
  • Dhillon, P. A., Halstead, M. (in press). "Multiculturalism." In P. Standish, N. Blake, & P. Smeyers (Eds.). The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education. Oxford: Blackwell.
  • Dhillon, P. (2000). The sublime face of just education. In P. Dhillon & P. Standish (Eds.), Lyotard: Just education. New York: Routledge.