Notes on Contributors
Faith Agostinone-Wilson
is Professor of Education at Aurora University in Illinois. Her most recent books include Handbook for Undergraduate Research Advisors (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), Dialectical Research Methods in the Classical Marxist Tradition (Peter Lang, 2013) and Enough Already: A Socialist Feminist Response to the Rise of Right-Wing Populism and Fascism (Brill | Sense, 2020).
Mike Cole
is Professor in Education, Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London. Dr. Cole’s most recent books are Trump, the Alt-Right and Public Pedagogies of Hate and for Fascism: What Is to Be Done? (Routledge, 2019) and Theresa May, The Hostile Environment and Public Pedagogies of Hate and Threat: The Case for a Future without Borders (Routledge, 2020).
Jeremy T. Godwin
is a recent graduate of the Cultural Studies and Literacies Ph.D. program in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He currently serves as a religious educator in Durham, North Carolina. In his parish, he is expanding the work of his dissertation enacting a theo-aesthetic approach to anti-racism and is preparing a monograph based on that research. His interests include the intersections of race, religion, and education; public pedagogy; and qualitative methodologies (especially arts-based and action research).
Jones Irwin
is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Education at the Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland. He has just completed his role as Project Officer for the first state curriculum in values in Irish schools. His most recent books are the monograph Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education: Origins, Developments, Impacts and Legacies (Continuum, 2012) and [with Helena Motoh] Žižek and His Contemporaries: On the Emergence of the Slovenian Lacan (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is currently completing a monograph on existential philosophy for Routledge and is Course Leader of Values Education on the Ed.D. Programme at Dublin City University.
Austin Pickup
is an assistant professor in the Doctor of Education program at Aurora University. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research and an M.A. in Secondary Education from The University of Alabama. His research interests focus broadly on qualitative inquiry, critical research methodologies, philosophy of education, and social studies education. Dr. Pickup’s work has been published in a variety of scholarly journals related to both qualitative inquiry and foundations of education, including Educational Studies, The Qualitative Report, Critical Questions in Education, and Philosophical Studies in Education. He is currently developing a book project with an Aurora University colleague focused on the dynamics of bringing the teaching of philosophy/ethics to the K-12 classroom.
Daniel Ian Rubin
is Adjunct Faculty of Secondary Education at University of Redlands in Redlands, CA. He is currently an English/Language Arts teacher at an inner-city high school in Birmingham, AL. His book, Multiculturalism, Dialectical Thought, & Social Justice Pedagogy: A Study from the Borderlands, was published by Information Age Publishing in 2017.
Eric C. Sheffield
is Professor and Director of Western Illinois University’s School of Education. He is also the founding editor of the Academy for Educational Studies’ peer reviewed journal, Critical Questions in Education. A former English teacher in Putnam County, Florida, Sheffield received his B.A. in philosophy from Illinois College, and both his M.Ed. and Ph.D. from the University of Florida.