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“Present reform efforts in education seem wrongheaded to me. No matter how much knowledge is learned, people are still harmed and indeed harm each other. Perhaps we ought to turn to considerations of ethics.” – Lynda Stone |
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Professor, Philosophy of Education Chair of Culture, Curriculum and Change |
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T 919.962.9377 |
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307E Peabody Hall |
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Lynda Stone is professor, philosophy of education, and in fall 2008, director of Graduate Studies and area chair, Culture, Curriculum and Change (CCC). She teaches courses in the Ph.D. in Education, CCCs, and the Master of Arts in Teaching program. These include theoretical foundations and contexts of education, philosophy of education and ethics, and specialty seminars. Stone has been an educator for more than 40 years, first teaching secondary social studies for 15 years in California after attending the University of California at Berkeley. Following graduate studies at Stanford, she taught briefly at the University of New Hampshire, Michigan State University, and Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr Colleges. She was assistant professor for five years at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu) before coming to UNC in 1993. Stone will serve as president of the John Dewey Society for the Study of Education and Culture from 2009-2011. She has had a very active career, participating and serving in various capacities in the American Educational Research Association, the International Network of Philosophers of Education, the John Dewey Society, and the Philosophy of Education Society. She has been honorary Secretary of Division B, Curriculum Studies of AERA, and one of five members of a national task force to establish standards for reporting humanities-based research for AERA as well. She is also a member of an international research group of scholars in philosophy and history of education sponsored by the Flanders government. |
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| Selected Publications | Stone, L. and Marshall, J. (Eds.). (2008, accepted, in process). Handbook on poststructuralism and education. Sense Publishing. Stone, L. (2008, submitted February). Impossible Equity: An initial consideration of generation between adults and youth. The Sophist’s Bane. Stone, L. (2008, submitted February). The missing link: Dewey’s democracy and schools. Journal of Educational Controversy. Stone, L. (2007, submitted December). Encounters: Kuhn and Foucault for intelligibility. Educational Theory. Stone, L. (2007). Should blame be part of the education of character? Philosophy of education: 2007. (pp. 323-331). Stone, L. (2007). Asking wrong and right questions: A problematization of youth ethics. Invited essay, South Atlantic philosophy of education society 2006 yearbook. (pp. 1-15). Stone, L. (2007). Wang’s self-seeking subject in search of a third space. A review of Hongyu Wang, The call from the stranger on a journey home: Curriculum in a third space, 2004. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 26 (4), 377-387. Stone, L. (2006). From technologization to totalization in education research: US graduate training, methodology, and critique. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 40 (4), 527-545. Bridges, D., and Smith, R. (Eds.). (2007). Philosophy, methodology, and educational research (pp. 265-282). Malden, MA: Blackwell. Stone, L. (2008 in press). Philosophy of education. In B. Gallegos, A. Henry, S. Tozer, et al (Eds). Handbook of research in social foundations of education. Lawrence Erlbaum (Routeldge). Stone, L. (forthcoming). Epistemology. The Sage encyclopedia of qualitative research. L. Given (Ed.). Sage. Stone, L. (2008 in press). Educationalization in a USA present: A historicist rendering. In P. Smeyers and M. Depeape (Eds.). Educational Research: The educationalisation of social problems. Dordrecht: Springer. Stone, L. (2007, in press). Teacher isms today: From certain system to open inspiration. In A. Phelan and J. Sumison (Eds.). Provoking absences: Critical readings in teacher education. Dordrecht: Sense. |
| Selected Presentations | Stone, L. (2007, November). Educationalization in a USA present. Research Community, Fund of Scientific Research-Vlaanderen. Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education, Evaluation and Evolution of the Criteria for Educational Research, Leuven, Belgium. Stone, L. (2007, April). Agency? Who needs it: A politics of warning from Foucault. Workshop on agency after Foucault. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto. Stone, L. (2006, November). An encounter of Kuhn and Foucault with implications for intelligibility. Research Community, Fund of Scientific Research-Vlaanderen. Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education, Evaluation and Evolution of the Criteria for Educational Research, Leuven, Belgium. Stone, L. (2006, August). Kuhn and Foucault, philosophy and history, and significance for educational research. Symposium workshop paper at the eleventh biennial meeting of the International Network of Philosophers of Education, Malta. Stone, L. (2007, April). School and youth ethics: Prolegomenon to a study of a social interstice and contemporary morality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, SIG Philosophical Studies in Education, Chicago. Stone, L. (2006, April). Constructing new history curricula: A particular exercise of philosophical archaeology. Invited symposium paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Division B, San Francisco Stone, L. (2005, April). Setting the accountability problem: NCATE, Alice and absurdity. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Symposium, Division B, Montreal. |