Section Links

• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Grants
• Selected Publications

Research Biography

Degrees

• Ph.D., Philosophy of Education, Stanford University, 1983
• M.A., Philosophy, Stanford University, 1979
• B.A., Philosophy, Religious Studies, Grinnell College, 1975

Key Professional Appointments

• Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994--
• Affiliate, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994--
• Associate Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1989-1994
• Assistant, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies, University of Utah, 1983-1989

Activities & Honors

• Fellow, Fellow of the International Academy of Education, 2010- present
• Recipient, Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Philosophy of Education, James and Helen Merritt Foundation, 2004
• Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor, College of Education, 2002-2007
• Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002
• Distinguished Senior Scholar, College of Education, 2001- present
• Faculty Exchange Award, University of Leuven, 2001
• President, Philosophy of Education Society, 2001
• Series Editor, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1999- present
• Editor, Journal of Educational Theory, 1991- present

Grants

• Co-Principal Investigator, Interagency Education Research Initiative: Planning Grant for National Data Collection Center, National Science Foundation, 2000
• Principal Investigator, Can Knowledge be Distributed? The Dynamics of Knowledge in Interdisciplinary Alliances, National Science Foundation (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), 1999

Selected Publications

• Burbules, N. C. (Ed.). (2003). Educational research as a social discourse. In P. Smeyers & M. Depaepe(Eds.), Beyond empiricism: On criteria for educational research. Leuven, Belgium: University Press. More about this publication...
• Burbules N. C., & Lambeir, B. (2003). The importance of new technologies in promoting collaborative educational research. In P. Smeyers & M. Depaepe (Eds.), Beyond empiricism: On criteria for educational research, (pp. 41-52). Leuven, Belgium: University Press.
• Burbules, N. C. (2000). Philosophy of education. In B. Moon, M. Ben-Peretz, & S. Brown (Eds.), Routledge international companion to education (pp. 3-18). New York: Routledge.
• Burbules, N. C., & Callister, T. A., Jr. (2000). Universities in transition: The promise and the challenge of new technologies. Teachers College Record, 102(2), 273-295.
• Burbules, N. C. (2000). Does the Internet constitute a global educational community? In N. C. Burbules & C. Torres (Eds.), Globalization and education: Critical perspectives (pp. 323-355). New York: Routledge.