FACULTY PROFILES
Fazal Rizvi
Dr. Fazal Rizvi has been a professor in Educational Policy at UIUC since 2001. He was born in India and educated in India, Australia and the UK. His major research interests include: globalization and education policy, higher education policy in Southeast Asia, post-colonialism and the politics of cultural difference and the problems of democratic reforms in education. He is currently working on issues of mobility of students and the internationalization of higher education. Dr. Rizvi is the Director of the GSE on-line Masters program. For further details see: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/frp/r/friz
Nicholas Burbules
Dr. Nicholas Burbules is the Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor of Educational Policy at UIUC. Dr. Burbules is a leading philosopher of education, whose research focuses on philosophy of education; teaching and dialogue; critical social and political theory; and technology and education. His major current projects include work on ethical and policy issues with new technologies in education; virtual reality; collaboration; and dialogue and "third spaces." He has authored and edited many books and currently edits the prestigious journal, Educational Theory. He is a co-editor of Globalization and Education: Critical Perspectives (Routledge 2000). For further details see: http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/
Cynthia Carter-Ching
Dr. Cynthia Carter-Ching received her PhD in Education from UCLA, with a secondary focus at UCLA's Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture. She studies how relationships between technology and identity are constructed and explored at various developmental stages throughout the lifespan, and is currently editing a book on this topic. Dr. Carter-Ching is highly active in the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS), serving on the editorial board of the flagship journal and the organizing committees for two of its major international conferences. Her teaching focuses on sociocultural theories of learning, educational technology, child development, and ethnographic methods.
Bill Cope
Dr. Bill Cope is a Research Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is a former First Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the Australian Federal Government. He has also worked in or with a number of Australian universities including the University of Wollongong, the University of Technology, Sydney, James Cook University of North Queensland and RMIT University in Melbourne. He has a Ph.D. in history, and his current research interests include population and community diversity, theories and practices of pedagogy and new technologies of representation and communication, including the 'semantic web'. With Mary Kalantzis, he is co-author of a number of books, including: 'The Powers of Literacy', Falmer Press, London, 1993, 'Productive Diversity', Pluto Press, Sydney, 1997; 'A Place in the Sun: Re-Creating the Australian Way of Life', HarperCollins, Sydney, 2000; and 'Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures', Routledge, London, 2000.
Antonia Darder
Dr. Antonia Darder is professor of Educational Policy Studies and Latino/a Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Dr. Darder was born in Puerto Rico and educated in California, receiving her Ph.D from Claremont Graduate University. She has studied and worked with the renowned Brazilian educator, Paulo Freire. Her current work focuses on comparative studies of racism, class and society. Her teaching examines cultural issues in education with an emphasis on identity, language, and popular culture, as well as the foundations of critical pedagogy, Latino studies, and social justice theory. For further details see: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/frp/d/adarder
Peter Kuchinke
Dr. Peter Kuchinke is an associate professor in the department of Human Resource Education where he also serves as Graduate Programs Coordinator. Dr. Kuchinke's research interests focus on the history and philosophy of workforce education and on leadership and management development in public and private organizations. A native of Germany with residency in the US for over 25 years, he conducts much of his research in US- European comparative settings. For further details see: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/frp/k/kuchinke
Cameron McCarthy
Dr. Cameron McCarthy teaches courses in Globalization, Communications and Culture, Mass Communications Theory and Cultural Studies. He is Research Professor, Communications Scholar and University Scholar in the Institute of Communication Research. Professor McCarthy also holds joint appointments in the departments of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies. He has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at Jesus College, the University of Cambridge, York University, the University of Newcastle, Monash University and the University of Queensland. For further details, see: http://www.comm.uiuc.edu/icr/faculty/profiles/Cameron_McCarthy.html
Michael A Peters
Dr. Michael A Peters is a professor of educational policy studies at UIUC. He also holds positions as professor at the University of Glasgow and visiting scholar at California State University, San Bernardino. He is executive editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (Blackwells) and editor of two international online-only journals, Policy Futures in Education and E-Learning (Symposium Journals), as well as nine books series. His research interests are in educational theory and policy, politics and contemporary philosophy. He has published over thirty books and edited collections in these fields, including most recently: Building Knowledge Cultures (with Tina Besley) (2006); Deconstructing Derrida: New Tasks for the Humanities (with Peter Trifonas) (2005); Education, Globalisation and the State in the Age of Terrorism (2004); Poststructuralism and Educational Research (with Nick Burbules) (2004); Futures of Critical Theory (2003); Poststructuralism, Marxism and Neoliberalism: Between Theory and Politics (2001). For further details see: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/eps/frp/mpet001
