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Alexander Sidorkin

Horace Mann Hall (HM) 108
(401) 456-8110
asidorkin@ric.edu

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Education

1996     Ph.D., Education, University of Washington. Areas of concentration: Philosophy of Education (major); Educational Psychology; Comparative Education; Theory of Organizations.

1992     MA, Peace studies, University of Notre Dame, IN, Institute for International Peace Studies.

1991     Ph.D., Education (Кандидат педагогических наук) Research Institute for Theory and History of Education, Moscow, Russia.

1985     MA, History and Education (Диплом об окончании высшего учебного заведения), Novosibirsk State Teachers College, Novosibirsk, Russia.

1996     Washington State Teaching Certificate. Social Studies and History 4-12.

Publications

Books

1. Labor of Learning: Market and the Next Generation of Educational Reform. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2009.

2. Learning Relations: Impure Education, Deschooled Schools, and Dialogue with Evil. New York: Peter Lang, 2002.

3. Beyond Discourse: Education, the Self and Dialogue. Buffalo: SUNY Press, 1999.

4. Парад предрассудков (Parade of Prejudices and Superstitions). Moscow: Znanie, 1992.

5. Пособие для начинающих Робеспьеров (A Beginning Robespierre's Guide). Moscow: Znanie, 1990.

6. No Education Without Relation (co-edited with Charles Bingham). New York: Peter Lang, 2004.

7. Школа воспитания: 825-й маршрут [School of character: The Route # 825] (Co-edited with V.A. Karakovsky, D.B.Grigoriev, and Ye.I. Sokolova). Moscow: The Pedagogical Society of Russia, 2004.

8. Rhymes, Ritual, and Recipes: Toledo East Side Stories as Told by the Mind Weavers (co-edited with Patricia Bennett, Janet Murphy, and Carey Smith). Toledo, OH: Mind Weavers, 2003.

Book Chapters

  1. "The Gift and Dialogue", Karin Ellingsen Aune og Ellen Saur, Eds. Dialogiske perspektiver: når vi er forskjellige, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2007.

  2. "Relations Are Rational: Toward An Economic Anthropology of Schooling," No Education Without Relation, Charles Bingham and Alexander Sidorkin, Editors, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

  3. "A Case for a Pedagogy of Relation," No Education Without Relation, Charles Bingham and Alexander Sidorkin, Editors, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2004.

  4. “Carnival and Dialogue: Opening New Conversations,” Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication, Patrick M. Jenlink and Bela H. Banathy, Editors, Plenum US, 2004.

  5. “Doing and Talking: Two Sides of School,” Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication, Patrick M. Jenlink and Bela H. Banathy, Editors, Plenum US, 2004.

  6. Воспитательная система школы: Проблемы м поиски [School as a System: Issues and Findings] (Co-author, N.L.Selivanova, Editor). Moscow: Znanie, 1989. 156,091 copies sold.

  7. Управление воспитательной системой школы: Проблемы и решения [Managing A School-wide Educational System: Issues and Solutions] [Co-author, V.A.Karakovskii, L.I.Novikova, N.L.Selivanova, Ye.I. Sokolova, Editors]. Moscow: Pedagogicheskoye obshchestvo Rossii, 1999.

Referred Papers

1. “Are schools improvable? A rumination on positionality,” Philosophy of Education 2010, Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2010, accepted.

2. "John Dewey: A case of educational utopianism," Philosophy of Education 2009, Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2009: 191-199.

3. “What do we want them to want to do? Against intrinsic motivation,” Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Conference Education and Multicultural Education, August 9-12, 2008, Kyoto University: 337-346.

4. "Is Schooling a Consumer Good?: A Case Against School Choice, But Not the One You Had in Mind," in Barbara Stengel, Ed. Philosophy of Education 2007, Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, 2007: 75-83.

5. “Human Capital and Labor of Learning: A Case of Mistaken Identity,” Educational Theory, 57/2, 2007, 159-170.

6. "The New Slavery, or Chrysalization of Class", Philosophy of Education 2006, Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2006, 417-425.

7. "The student Error," Philosophy of Education 2005. Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2005, 137-145.

8. "Chayanov’s Rule and School Reform," Philosophical Studies in Education 36, 2005, 67-76.

9. “In the Event of Learning,” Educational Theory 54/3, 2004, 251-62.

10. "Panopticon of the Second Kind: Self-Reforming During the Era of Excellence," Journal of Thought, Summer 2004, 17-33.

11. “The unlikely faces of professional development in urban schools: Preparing at-risk students and colleges for each other,” (with John Fischer, Lynne Hamer, Lucy Long, Julie McArthur, Art Samel, and Judith Zimmerman) Educational Horizons 83/3, Spring 2004, 203-212.

12. “Student Labor and Evolution of Education,” World Futures 60/3, 2004, 183-194.

13. “Lyotard and Bakhtin: Engaged Diversity in Education,” The Interchange 33/1, 2002, 85-97.

14. “Aesthetics and the Paradox of Educational Relation,” (with Charles Bingham) Journal of Philosophy of Education 35, Issue 1, February 2001, 21-30.

15. “Labor of Learning,” Educational Theory 51/1, Winter 2001, 91-108.

16. “Authoritarianism and Democracy in Soviet Schools: A Tale of John Dewey’s Ideas and the Woman Who Brought down the Berlin Wall,” East/West Education 19, 1998-2000, 121-130.

17. “Toward a Pedagogy of Relation,” Philosophical Studies in Education 32, 2000, 9-14.

18. “Dialogue with Evil,” Journal of Thought 34/3, Fall 1999, 9-19.

19. “The Fine Art of Sitting on Two Stools: Multicultural Education Between Postmodernism and Critical Theory,” Studies on Philosophy and Education 18/3, 1999,143-155.

20. “Redefinition of Plurality: On the Value of Double Messages,” Education and Society 16/1, 1998, 99-104.

21. “Authenticity-Dialogicality-Recognition: An Improbable Journey,” Philosophical Studies in Education, 1997, 83-90.

22. “Carnival and Third Places: Pedagogies of Neither Care, Nor Justice,“ Educational Theory 47/2, Spring 1997, 229-238.

23. “The Pedagogy of the Interhuman,” Philosophy of Education 1995. Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 1995, 412-419.

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