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Jim Garrison

Jim Garrison, Professor Emeritus

Jim Garrison
Jim Garrison, Professor Emeritus

School of Education
wesley@vt.edu

Jim Garrison is a professor emeritus in the Foundations of Education program.

  • PhD, The Florida State University
  • MA, The Florida State University
  • BS, The Florida State University
  • MA, The Florida State University
  • BA, The University of Central Florida
  • Honorary Doctorate, Soka University of Japan, Spring 2018
  • Commencement address, Soka University of Japan, Spring 2018
  • Hiroshima Peace Award, 2018
  • Books and papers translated into 10 foreign languages

Books

Andersson, Joacim, Garrison, Jim, and, Östman, Leif (2018). Empirical Philosophical Investigations In Education and Embodied Experience. New York, N. Y.: Palgrave.

Garrison, Jim, Neubert, Stefan Reich, Kersten (2016). Democracy and Education Reconsidered: Dewey After One Hundred Years. New York, N.Y.: Routledge

Garrison, Jim ジム・ガリソン, Hickman, Larry ラリー・ヒックマン, Ikeda, Daisaku , 池田 大作, (Spring, 2014). 人間 教育 への 新しき 潮流: デューイと創価 教育. (New Currents Toward Humanistic Education: Dewey and Value-Creating Pedagogy). 出版社:第三文明社. Tokyo: Daisanbunmei-Sha, Inc. Published in English in 2014 as Living as Learning. Cambridge, Mass: Dialogue Path Press. AESA critics choice winner. English edition, Fall 2014. Translated into Mandarin Chinese in 2016. Translated into French in 2018. Contracted for translation into “simplified Chinese” and Vietnamese.

Articles

Garrison, Jim (2019). Derridian Poststructuralism, Deweyan Pragmatism, and Education. The Oxford Handbook of Dewey. Steven Fesmire (Ed.)

Roosevelt, Dirck and Garrison, Jim (2018). McClintock’s “Just So” Stories. Educational Theory. Vol. 68, No. 2, 207-22.

Garrison, Jim (2018). Education and Social Self-Creation between Solid and Liquid Modernity. International Research in Higher Education. Vol. 3, Issue 1, 51-55.

Garrison, Jim and Neubert, Stefan (2018). Constructivst and Inclusive Education: Exclusion and the Present Crisis of Democracy. International Research in Higher Education. Vol. 3, Issue 1, 56-69.

Papers published

Garrison, Jim (2023). Exploring “The Vital Depths of Experience”: A Reader’s Response to Henning. The Pluralist. Vol. 19, No. 90-94.

Garrison, Jim (2023). Hickman, Buddhism, and Algorithmic Technology. Contemporary Pragmatism. Vol. 20, No. 1, 118-139.

Keynote address

Garrison, Jim (2023). Dewey, Eastern Humanism, and Education. John Dewey and His Legacy for Education. Carbondale, IL.

Invited talks

Garrison, Jim (2023). Dewey, Eastern Humanism, and Education. Zoom presentation, Fudan University. Inaugural “Building Bridges with Pragmatists.”

Garrison (2023). Panel Participant. Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue, September 16th.

Scientific advisor

Jim continues to serve as a visiting scientific advisor for two grants in Europe. The first in Belgium and the second in Sweden.

Conference paper presented

Garrison, Jim; Östman, Leif, and Van Poeck, Katrien (2023). Anthropocosmism: An Eastern Humanist Approach to the Anthropocene. Presented at the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Glasgow, August 29th.

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