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Overview

Nicholas C. Burbules is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their primary field of study is within the social sciences, with a particular focus on education, philosophy, sociology, political science, and information systems.

Their research spans several subfields including education, philosophy, sociology and political science, information systems, and political science and international relations. Key topics addressed in their work include education and critical thinking development, philosophy, ethics and existentialism, online and blended learning, political philosophy and ethics, epistemology, ethics and metaphysics, sustainability in higher education, and educational leadership and innovation.

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Nicholas C. Burbules include:

  • Five trends of education and technology in a sustainable future (2020), published in Geography and Sustainability
  • Slowness as a Virtue (2020), published in Journal of Philosophy of Education
  • Promoting Critical Thinking in Anti-Critical Thinking Times: Lessons from COVID Discourse (2022), published in Philosophical Inquiry in Education

In addition, papers from coauthors that appear alongside or related to their research areas include "Online education viewed through an equity lens: Promoting engagement and success for all learners" (2022, Review of Education) and "Philosophy of education in a new key: Snapshot 2020 from the United States and Canada" (2020, Educational Philosophy and Theory).

Frequent coauthors in their research include Liz Jackson, Kal Alston, Winston C. Thompson, Michael A. Peters, and Nesta Devine.

Nicholas C. Burbules has published multiple articles across various academic venues, with the most frequent venues being:

  • Educational Theory
  • Educational Philosophy and Theory
  • Philosophical Inquiry in Education
  • Journal of Philosophy of Education
  • Geography and Sustainability

The scholar's contributions have focused on intersections between education and critical thinking development, alongside ethical and philosophical considerations relevant to online learning environments and sustainability challenges in higher education.

Best Publications

  • Postpositivism and educational research

    Denis Charles Phillips;Nicholas C. Burbules

  • Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Pragmatism and educational research

    Gert J J Biesta;Nicholas C. Burbules

  • Dialogue in Teaching: Theory and Practice

    Nicholas C. Burbules

  • Globalization and Education: An Introduction

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Poststructuralism and educational research

    Michael Peters;Nicholas C. Burbules

  • The State, Globalization, and Educational Policy

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Carlos Alberto Torres

  • Dialogue across Differences: Continuing the Conversation

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Suzanne Rice

  • Education under Siege

    Nicholas C. Burbules

  • Theory and Research on Teaching as Dialogue

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Bertram C. Bruce

  • Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: An EPAT Collective Project

    Michael A. Peters;Fazal Rizvi;Gary Mcculloch;Paul Gibbs

  • Five trends of education and technology in a sustainable future

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Guorui Fan;Philip Repp

  • Watch It: The Risks And Promises Of Information Technologies For Education

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Thomas Callister

  • Science education and philosophy of science: congruence or contradiction?

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Marcia C. Linn

  • Los significados de “aprendizaje ubicuo”

    Nicholas C. Burbules

  • Learning in places : the informal education reader

    Zvi Bekerman;Nicholas C. Burbules;Diana Silberman-Keller

  • Universities in transition: The promise and the challenge of new technologies

    Nicholas C. Burbules;Thomas A. Callister

  • Mission creep in the IRB world.

    C. K. Gunsalus;Edward M. Bruner;Nicholas C. Burbules;Leon Dash

  • Rhetorics of the web: Hyperreading and critical literacy

    Nicholas C Burbules

  • The Illinois White Paper: Improving the System for Protecting Human Subjects--Counteracting IRB "Mission Creep".

    C.K. Gunsalus;Edward M. Bruner;Nicholas C. Burbules;Leon Dash

  • Teaching and Its Predicaments

    Nicholas C. Burbules;David T. Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos Alberto Torres
Carlos Alberto Torres University of California, Los Angeles
Michael A. Peters
Michael A. Peters University of Waikato
Bertram C. Bruce
Bertram C. Bruce University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Caroline Haythornthwaite
Caroline Haythornthwaite Syracuse University
Joseph F. Porac
Joseph F. Porac New York University
Geoffrey C. Bowker
Geoffrey C. Bowker University of California, Irvine
Michael G. Pratt
Michael G. Pratt Boston College
William T. Greenough
William T. Greenough University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gregory A. Miller
Gregory A. Miller University of California, Los Angeles
Gert Biesta
Gert Biesta National University of Ireland, Maynooth

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