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Thomas M. Falk, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Full-Time Faculty
School of Education and Health Sciences: Teacher Education
Degrees
- Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education, Ohio State University
- M.A. in Philosophy of Education, Ohio State University
- B.A. in Spanish and Anthropology, Ohio State University
Professional Activities
- Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society
- Society for the Philosophical Study of Education
Research Interests
- Cultural and Intellectual History
- History of Ideas
- Critical Theory
- Comparative Education
Selected Publications
Thomas M. Falk, “Anti-Authoritarian Education: A Phenomenological Perspective,” Philosophical Studies in Education 54 (2023), 60-69.
Thomas M. Falk, “Wage Slaves,” in Critical Understandings in Education Encyclopedia: Critical Whiteness Studies, Ed. Zachary Casey, NV, Leiden: Brill/Sense Publishing (2021), 686-693.
Thomas M. Falk, “Empire of Egotism: An Educational and Phenomenological Perspective from Dayton’s Quadruplet Crises,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Education Vol. 16, No. 1, North American Community: Uniting for Equity (2020).
Thomas M. Falk, “Psychedelic Phenomenology Primitive and Bourgeois: A Critical Response to Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence,” Journal of Consciousness Studies 27(1-2). January/February, 2020, pp. 34-56.
Professional Affiliations
Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society
American Educational Research Association
Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory & Practice
Society for the Philosophical Study of Education
Service
Editor, Philosophical Studies in Education 55 (2023).
Program Chair, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, 2023.
Robert ‘Sonny’ Hill Community Center Expansion Committee, Middletown OH, 2021-Present. President, Society for the Philosophical Study of Education, 2018-2020.
University Hearing Board for Community Standards and Civility, University of Dayton, 2017- 2020.