Community - Events

Community › Events › Detail

Monday March 15, 2010

Event Information

Dr. Deron Boyles

When:	March 15, 2010 06:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Where:	Chrysalis Experiential Academy
Phone:	770-649-7077
Address:	10 Mansell Court East Suite 500 Roswell, GA 30076
URL:	http://www.chrysalisexp.org/
Ages:	any
Cost:	free

Description:

Chrysalis Experiential Academy is proud to announce our guest speaker for our parent association meeting on March 15: Dr. Deron Boyles. He is an expert in the field of experiential learning and is currently Professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. His work has been published in such journals as Philosophy of Education, Social Epistemology, Journal of Thought, Philosophical Studies in Education, Educational Foundations, History of Education Quarterly, Educational Studies, and Educational Theory. His first book, American Education and Corporations: The Free Market Goes to School won the Critics’ Choice Award from the American Educational Studies Association. He is editor of two books, Schools or Markets?: Commercialism, Privatization, and School-Business Partnerships (2005), and The Corporate Assault on Youth: Commercialism, Exploitation, and the End of Innocence (2008). He is co-author, with Benjamin Baez, of The Politics of Inquiry: Education Research and the “Culture of Science,” which was awarded the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009. In November of 2010, he was presented with the James and Helen Merritt Award for Distinguished Service to Philosophy of Education. Boyles received his Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and is a Fellow in the Philosophy of Education Society and the John Dewey Society.

Rating 0%

Forward Event
Print Event
View all Events
Report Abuse

Event has been viewed (82) times.

Contact Us

Sections

Subscribe to Forsyth News

Regional News

Contact Us

Sections