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DAVID KENNEDY, CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. David Kennedy, Professor
College of Education and Human Services
Department of Educational Foundations
2139 University Hall
Montclair State University
Montclair New Jersey 07043
(973) 655-4279
EDUCATION
University of Kentucky, Ed.D., Social and Philosophical Studies in Education, 1986.
Thesis "Young Children's Thinking: An Interpretation from Phenomenology."
Eastern Montana University, M.S., Early Childhood Education, 1978
(Teacher Corps graduate fellowship).
Luther College, B.A., Elementary Education, 1977.
Columbia University, two years undergraduate study, literature and anthropology, 19611963.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MIDDLE GRADES INSTRUCTION
Instructor, Gifted and Talented Language Arts, sixth and seventh grades. Designed and/or implemented curriculum in drama, creative writing, linguistics, literature, French, psychology, futuristics, logic. Miller Community Middle School, Mt. Sterling, KY, 19801981.
Classroom Teacher, fourth grade. Developed and taught curriculum in language arts, social studies, health, and science. Busby School, Busby, MT (Northern Cheyenne Reservation), 19791980.
Curriculum Consultant. Developed seventh grade social studies curriculum in Native American and Cheyenne history, using local texts and resources. Lame Deer, MT, 197980.
Director, Title VII ESAA. Developed multicultural and bilingual curriculum for grades K8. Lame Deer School, Lame Deer, MT, 19781979.
Substitute Teacher, grades K12. Daily assignments, in two school systems, at a total of 15 schools. Rapid City, SD, 1977; Lexington, KY, 19811982.
EARLY CHILDHOOD INSTRUCTION
CurriculumDirector, Berea Children's Center. Design, implementation and supervision of a developmental preschool, kindergarten and afterschool curriculum. Duties included teaching of preschool and kindergarten classes; staff training and evaluation; training and supervision of college student workstudy employees; coordination of observations and internships by local college students; ongoing curriculum development and demonstration in language arts, math, science, social studies, philosophy for children, Spanish, art, computer literacy, music, dance. Berea, KY, 19821988.
Director, Head Start, Special Summer Program. Designed Montessori curriculum and environment, acted as head teacher, and constructed center materials and equipment. Gardner, CO, 1971.
NONTRADITIONAL INSTRUCTION
Learning Exchange. Coordinated, developed and taught courses in community education and home schooling network. Berea, KY, 19831984.
Refugee Reeducation. Volunteer work with Vietnamese, Laotian and Thai Dam refugees. Received training in and taught ESL; performed basic counseling, advocacy, and other support services for families and individuals. Awarded the "Certificate of Appreciation" by the Thai Dam Community. Decorah, IA, 19751977.
Berlitz School of Languages. English Instructor (Berlitz Method), oneonone tutorial and class instruction. New York, NY, 19651969.
TEACHING
Professor, Educational Foundations, College of Education and Human Services, Montclair State University, 1996-. Duties include teaching courses in history and philosophy of education, critical thinking, philosophy for children, and philosophy of childhood, at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels.
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator, Child Development and Family Relations, Western Carolina University, 1993-1996. Developed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in child development, life-span development, early childhood education, child study, and educational foundations. Duties included developing and directing the WCU Child and Family Resource Center, for children birth through eight years of age, and their parents; and coordinating the CDFR program.
Assistant Professor, Child and Family Studies, Northern Michigan University, 19891993. Developed and taught courses in child development and early childhood environments, curriculum and pedagogy, child guidance, child care administration, philosophy for children, and history and philosophy of childhood, at undergraduate and graduate levels. Duties also included teaching and supervision of laboratory courses at the campus preschool.
Teaching Assistant. Social and Philosophical Studies in Education, University of Kentucky, 19831984. Developed and taught two sections of the 300 level introductory course, Education in American Culture.
Adjunct Instructor, part time. Dull Knife Memorial College, Lame Deer, MT, 19781980. Developed and taught 200 level course, Human Growth and Development, from a multicultural, life-course perspective.
Visiting Professorships
Faculty of Education, University of Brasilia, Brazil. Co-taught two courses in philosophy of childhood, co-supervised student research, and delivered two public lectures.May--July 2000.
Faculty of Education, University of Brasilia, Brazil. “Filosofia e Infancia II.” Delivered workshops, consultations and open lecture for students involved in the Philosophy in Schools Project. November 24-30 1999.
Faculty of Philosophy, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico. Taught the short doctoral course, "The Hermeneutics of Childhood.” June 1995 and June 1996.
Faculty of Early Childhood Studies, Bennington College, Bennington, VT. Taught practicum course in early childhood education, and developed and taught the course The Young Child in the Western Imagination.Fall 1988.
Philosophy in schools
Edgemont School, Montclair Cooperative School, and Bradford Academy, Montclair NJ. Facilitator. Conducted weekly Philosophy for Children classes K-8, supervised student teachers, and worked with cooperating teachers. 1997-2009.
Lincoln School, Nutley NJ. Facilitator of fifth grade Philosophy for Children classes as part of “Student Thought and Classroom Language: Investigating the Connection,” a research grant awarded by the National Academy of Education Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship (Principal Investigator, Dr. Alina Reznitzkaya). Jan-May, 2007.
Philosophy in the Schools Project.“Comparing Children’s Philosophical Reflections On Conflict Across Grade Levels.” Principal Investigatorin collaboration with two graduate students.Edgemont School, Montclair NJ.,2003-2004.
International Training Institute in Philosophy for Children, Mendham NJ. Associate Director and Facilitator, 10-day intensive residential summer seminar. 1996-2008.
SCHOLARSHIP, PUBLICATIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES;
Books, monographs and edited volumes
Philosophy for Children in Transition: Problems and Prospects, Vansieleghem, N. and Kennedy, D., Eds.Chisester UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Journal of Philosophy of Education, Special Issue on Philosophy for Children (45:2, May). N. Vansieleghem and D. Kennedy, Eds. 2011.
Philosophical Dialogue with Children: Essays on Theory and Practice. The Mellen Press, 2011.
Changing Conceptions of the Child from the Renaissance to Post-Modernity: A Philosophy of Childhood. The Mellen Press, 2006.
The Well of Being: Childhood, Subjectivity, and Education. SUNY Press, 2006.
Filosofia e infancia, Kohan, W. and Kennedy, D. Eds. Petropolis, Brazil: Editora Vozes, 1999.
Book Chapters
“Philosophical Inquiry in the Content Areas: The Case of Mathematics.” With Nadia S. Kennedy. In Philosophy For, With, and Of Children. M. Glina, Ed. New Castle Upon Tyne, UK:Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming.
“Developing Philosophical Facilitation: A Toolbox of Philosophical Moves.” InPhilosophy in Schools: An Introductory Handbook for Philosophers and Teachers, S. Goering, T. Wartenberg & N. Shudak, Eds.New York: Routledge, forthcoming.
"Community of Philosophical Inquiry Online and Off: Retrospectus and Prospectus." With Nadia S. Kennedy. In D. Randy Garrison and Zehra Akyol, Eds., Educational Communities of Inquiry: Theoretical Framework, Research, and Practice. Hershey PA: IGI Global, forthcoming.
“From Outer Space and Across the Street: Matthew Lipman’s Double Vision.” In Lee Cho-sik and Park Jin-wan, Eds. Thinking Education Through Philosophy, 241-273. Seoul: Korean Academy of Teaching Philosophy in School, forthcoming.
“Rhizomatic Curriculum Development in Community of Philosophical Inquiry.” In Educating for Complex Thinking through Philosophical Inquiry. Models, Advances, and Proposals for the New Millennium, M. Santi & S. Oliverio, Eds. Napoli: Liguori, 2012.
“After Socrates: Community of Philosophical Inquiry and the New World Order.” In Kincheloe, J. L. & Hewitt, R., Regenerating the Philosophy of Education. New York:Peter Lang, 2011.
“Schooling and Subjectivity.” In Theodoropoulou E. (ed.), Philosophy of Education: Discourses, Aspects, Ways. Athens: Pedio, 2010.
“Aion.” With Walter Kohan. In Tomperi T. & Juuso H. (Eds.)
Sokrates koulussa. Itsenäisen ja yhteisöllisen ajattelun edistäminen
opetuksessa, 130-155. Tampere: Niin & Näin, 2008.
“Another World is Possible: Schooling, Multitude, and Philosophy.” In Marsal, E., Dobashi, T., & Weber, B. (Eds.), Children Philosophize Worldwide: Theoretical and Practical Concepts. Frankfurt am Main: Peter-Lang-Verlag, 2008.
“Comunidade de Indagacao Filosofica e Transformacao Educacional: Alguns Principios Basicos” (“Community of Philosophical Inquiry and Educational Transformation: Some Basic Principles”). In Sardi, S., Gonzaga de Souza, D., & Carbonara, V. (Eds.), Filosofia e Sociedade: Perspectivas para o Ensino da Filosofia. Ijui, Brasil: Editora Unijui, 2007.
"Schule, Neotenie, ethische Rekonstruktion und das Kind als Privilegierter Fremder" (“Schooling, Neoteny, Ethical Reconstruction, and the Child as Privileged Stranger”). In Marsal, E., Dobashi, T., Weber, B., & F.G. Lund (Eds.), Ethis che Reflexionskompetenz im Grundschulalter. Konzepte des Philosophierens mit Kindern. Hodos: Peter-Lang Verlag, 2007.
“The School of the Third Joyous Kingdom.” In Kohan, W.( Ed.), Spaces of Childhood: School and Philosophy. Rio de Janeiro: DP & A, 2004.
“Pensar por si mesmo e com outros.” In Kohan, W. & Leal, B. (Eds.), Filosofia para criancas: Em debate. Petropolis: Editora Vozes, 1999.
“Las Cinco Communidades.” In Kohan, W. & Waksman, V. (Eds.), Que es Filosofia para Ninos? Ideas y Propuestas para Pensar la Educacion. University of Buenos Aires Press, 1997.
"The Nine-Year-Old Philosopher and the Hermeneutics of Self-Understanding." In Reed, R.T. & Sharp, A.M. (Eds.), Studies in Philosophy for Children: Pixie. Madrid: De La Torre Press, 1996.
"Philosophy for Children and School Reform: Dewey, Lipman, and the Community of Inquiry." In Reed, R.T. (Ed.), Children, Philosophy, and Democracy. Calgary: Detselig, 1995.
“The Community of Inquiry and Educational Structure.” In M. Lipman (Ed.), Thinking, Children, and Education. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 1993.
“Why Philosophy for Children Today?” In Camhy,D.G. (Ed.), Children: Thinking and Philosophy. Bonn: Academia Verlag, 1993. [Also published in Hungarian translation, in F. Katalin, Ed., Gyermek-Filozofia: Szoveggyujtemeny II, Korona Nova, 1998.]
"Young Children's Discourse and the Origins of the World." In Reed, R.T. (Ed.), When We Talk: Essays on Classroom Conversation. Fort Worth TX: Analytic Press, 1992.
Journal Articles
Refereed
“Lipman, Dewey, and Community of Philosophical Inquiry.” Education and Culture, forthcoming.
“Marcuse’s New Sensibility, Neoteny, and Progressive Schooling: Utopian Prospects.” Civitas Educationis: Education, Politics, and Culture, forthcoming.
“Community of Philosophical Inquiry as a Discursive Structure, and its Role in School Curriculum Design.” With N.S. Kennedy. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 45:2 (May 2011).
"Between Chaos and Entropy: Community of Inquiry from a Systems Perspective." With N. S. Kennedy. Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education, 7 (2) July 2010.
“Talking Globally.” Analytic Teaching 25,2 (Spring 2005).
“The Role of a Facilitator in a Community of Philosophical Inquiry.” Metaphilosophy 35, 4 (October 2004).
“Communal Philosophical Dialogue and the Intersubject.” InternationalJournal for Philosophical Practice, 18,2 (Fall 2004).
“Power, Manipulation, and Control in a Community of Inquiry. With Pavel Lushyn. Analytic Teaching 23,2 (Spring 2003): 103-110.
“The Child and Postmodern Subjectivity.” Educational Theory 52,2 (Spring 2002).
“Philosophy for Children in China: A Late Preliminary Anti-Report.” Analytic Teaching 21, 3 (November 2001).
“Parent, Child, Alterity, Dialogue.” Philosophy Today, 45, 1 (Spring 2001).
"The Roots of Child Study: Philosophy, History, and Religion." Teachers College Record, June 2000.
“Philosophy for Children and the Reconstruction of Philosophy.” Metaphilosophy, April 2000.
“Thinking for Oneself and with Others.” Analytic Teaching 20,1 (November 1999).
“Subversive Innocence.” Childhood 6,2 (May 1999).
“The Politics of Subjectivity, Philosophy of Childhood, and Dialogical Education.” Critical and Creative Thinking 7,2 (Spring 1999).
"Empathic Child Rearing and the Adult Construction of Childhood: A Psychohistorical Look." Childhood 5,1 (February 1998).
Young Children's Moves: Emergent Community of Inquiry in Early Childhood Discourse." Critical and Creative Thinking 4,1 (1996).
"Forming Communities of Inquiry in Early Childhood Classrooms." Early Child Development and Care 120,1 (Fall 1996).
"The Five Communities." Analytic Teaching 15, 1 (November 1994) [Also published in Inquiry 16,4 (Summer 1997), and in Spanish translation (1997)].
"Jessie Left." Analytic Teaching 15, 1 (November 1994).
"Using Peter Rabbit as a Philosophical Text with Young Children." Analytic Teaching 13,1 (November 1992).
"The Hermeneutics of Childhood." Philosophy Today 35, 4 (Spring, 1992).
"Young Children and Ultimate Questions: Romancing at Day Care." Analytic Teaching 12, 1 (November, 1991).
"The Young Child's Experience of Space and Child Care Center Design: A Practical Meditation." Children's Environments Quarterly 8,1 (1991).
"HansGeorge Gadamer's Dialectic of Dialogue and the Epistemology of the Community of Inquiry." Analytic Teaching 12 (November, 1990) [Also translated and published in Hungarian].
With G.T. Moore and J.L. Piwoni, "Designing Child Care Centers Based on the Children's Environments' Pattern Language: The Northern Michigan University Children's Center." Children's Environments Quarterly 6 (Winter 1989).
"Young Children's Discourse and the Origins of the World." Teaching and Learning 3 (Winter 1989).
"Fools, Young Children, Animism, and the Scientific World Picture." Philosophy Today 33,4 (Winter 1989).
"Philosophy for Children and the Redefinition of Philosophy." Analytic Teaching 10 (November 1989).
"Images of the Young Child in History: Enlightenment and Romance." Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 3 (June 1988).
Un-refereed
“From Outer Space and Across the Street: Mathew Lipman’s Double Vision.” Childhood & Philosophy 7, Special Issue, February 2012: 66-105 (includes Portuguese translation).
“Aion, Kairos, and Chronos: Fragments of an Endless Conversation on Childhood, Philosophy, and Education.” With Walter Kohan. Childhood & Philosophy 4, 8 (2008): 5-22.
“John Dewey on Children, Childhood and Education.” Childhood & Philosophy: A Journal of the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children, 2:4 (December 2006).
“Young Children Discuss Conflict.” Childhood & Philosophy: A Journal of the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children, 1:3 (June 2006).
With Pavel Lushyn, “The Psychodynamics of Community of Inquiry and Educational Reform: A Cross-Cultural Perspective.” Thinking 15, 3 (2000).
“Child Care: What Can It Be?” Beginnings, May 2000.
“Que es la folosofia de la infancia?” Novedades Educativas 12,15 (Julio 2000).
“Thinking Through Philosophy for Children.” Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 19,2 (Winter 2000).
"Reconstructing Childhood." Thinking 14,1 (1998).
“Reconstruindo a Infancia.” Caderno Linhas Criticas 5&6 (July 1998).
"Escuela, Communidad e Interculturalidad: Viviendo el 'Entre'." Aprender a Pensar 15,1 (1997).
"Child and Fool in the Western Wisdom Tradition." Thinking 11, 1 (1993).
"Why Philosophy for Children Now?" Thinking 10,3 (1993).
"Fools, Young Children, and Philosophy." Thinking 8,4 (1990).
Conference Proceedings
“Reconstructing Childhood,”Philosophy at the Top of the World: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children.” 1997.
"Hans-Georg Gadamer's Dialectics of Dialogue." Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the Montclair Institute for Critical Thinking. 1989.
"Education, Schooling, and Theoretical Consciousness." Proceedings of the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education Society, 1985.
"Between World and System: Schooling and Western Mind." Philosophy of Education, 1987.
"Thinking About Home Schooling: Some Historical, Philosophical, and Cultural Reasons." Philosophical Studies in Education, 1986.
"Young Children's Knowing and the Western Rationality Paradigm." Philosophical Studies in Education, 1984.
Book reviews
Review of Lipman, M., A Life Teaching Thinking. Thinking20, 3-4 (2011).
Review of Kellner, D. Lewis, T. , Peirce, C. & Cho, D., Marcuse’s Challenge to Education, in Teachers College RecordMay 2010.
Review of C. & J. Robelin, What is a Man? A Dialogue Between Leo the Wise Dog and his Philosopher, in Inquiry 25, 1 (Spring 2010)
Review of G. Matthews, The Philosophy of Childhood, in Thinking 12,2 (1995).
Review of S.J. Hutt et al, Play, Exploration and Learning: A Natural History of the PreSchool, in Educational Studies 22 (Summer, 1991).
Review of W.M. Reynolds, Reading Curriculum Theory: The Development of a New Hermeneutic, in The Journal of Educational Thought 25 (August, 1991).
Review of M. Lipman's Growing Up With Philosophy. Educational Studies, 20 (Spring 1989).
Other Publications
“Empathy.” Entry in Young Adults’ Encyclopedia of Ethics and Values, vol. 3. Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier Educational, 1999.
Invited addresses and panels
“Becoming Child, Becoming Other: Childhood as Signifier.” Keynote address, presented at the International Symposium: Childhood in the English Renaissance. Siegen, Germany, February 10, 2012.
“Homage to Matthew Lipman.” Keynote address, presented at X Congreso Internacional de Filosofia Para Ninos. Oaxaca, Mexico, December 9-11, 2011.
“From Outer Space and Across the Street: Matthew Lipman’s Double Vision.” Keynote address, presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children. Jinju, Korea, July 18, 2011.
“Schooling, Neoteny, Philosophy.” Invited address at the Sixth Annual Seminar in Professional Formation: Thinking the Feelings of Philosophizing, sponsored by the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Ilha Grande, Brazil. March 10-14, 2011.
“Philosophical Dialogue and the Transformation of the School: Utopian Prospects.” Keynote address, presented at the Ninth National Colloquium and Second International Conference of Philosophy for Children.Guanajuato, Mexico. December 10, 2010.
“After Socrates: Community of Philosophical Inquiry and the New World Order.” Invited paper, presented at the 2010 conference of the North American Association for the Community of Inquiry. Queretero, Mexico. June 5, 2010
“Community of Philosophical Inquiry and the Pedagogical Implications of Philosophy for Children.” Invited addresspresented at the Eleventh Summer Course in Professional Formation of the Center for Research in Philosophical Inquiry. Acuto, Italy, July 17, 2009
Respondent to Prof. Carlo Levi, “With Dewey, Beyond Dewey: Educating for Reflective Thinking.” Invited discussant. at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies, John Dewey Anniversary Celebration: John Dewey’s Thought Between Psychology, Philosophy and Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” Naples, Italy, June 30, 2009.
“Philosophical Dialogue Across the Curriculum: Integrating P4C Into the School Content Area.” Invited address presented at Keeping the Child in Mind: A conference about Philosophy for Children, at the University of Memphis, September 12, 2009. Memphis, TN.
“School, Utopia, Empire, Resistance.” Keynote address, delivered at the conference “Encounter Between Philosophy and Teaching,” at the Federal University of Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil, April 2008.
Philosophy for Children and Educational Reconstruction Across Two Cultures: A Roundtable. Chair, at the 62nd Annual Meeting of The Philosophy of Education Society (PES), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. April 2006.
Symposium: Philosophy for Children 30 Years Later. Invited speaker at the 102nd Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. New York, December 2005.
“Only a Child Can Save Us.” Presidential Address, delivered to the Eleventh Biannual Conference of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC): Children and Adults: A Philosophical Encounter. Varna, Bulgaria, June 2003.
Fifth Biannual Conference of the North American Association for Community of Inquiry. Invited discussion facilitator. Led an hour-long demonstration discussion on “the nature of thinking” with Fourth Graders from Edgemont School, Montclair, NJ. June 2002.