Craig Andrew Cunningham
Associate Professor
National-Louis University, Chicago Illinois
phone and fax: 1-312-261-3605
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Philosophy of Curriculum, University of Chicago Department of Education, December 1994.
Dissertation: “The Moral Consequences of John Dewey’s Metaphysics.” Dissertation committee: Philip W. Jackson (chair), Frederick Lighthall, Donald Browning. Outside readers: William Pattison, Robert Dreeben.
Helen B. Walberg Memorial Prize for most distinguished student admitted to candidacy, June 1994.
A.M., Education, University of Chicago, June 1992. Concentration: Curriculum and Instruction.
Master’s Paper: “A Certain and Reasoned Art: The Rise and Fall of Character Education in America.”
Susan Colver Rosenberger Award for excellence in the first year of graduate study, June 1989.
Klingenstein Summer Fellow, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1987.
A.B., History, Magna cum laude, Lafayette College, May 1983.
Admitted to Phi Beta Kappa during junior year.
EXPERIENCE
President, Philosophical Studies of Education Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association, 2007 – present.
Member, Board of Directors, John Dewey Society, 2007-present.
Program Director, Technology in Education Program, National-Louis University, Chicago. Responsible for all administrative functions in program including recruitment, advising, scheduling, hiring adjuncts, and representing the program on various college and university councils. Fall, 2005-present.
Associate Professor, Technology in Education Program, National College of Education, National-Louis University, Chicago. Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in technology integration. Chair of College’s Ad Hoc Technology Committee. Member of College’s Graduate Council. Responsible for program web site. Working closely with Chicago Public Schools on development of training program for technology coordinators. Fall, 2004-present.
Member, Board of Reviewers, Education and Culture, 2005-present.
Program Chair, Philosophical Studies of Education Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association, 2005-2007.
Research Associate for Technology and Teacher Education, Center for School Improvement, University of Chicago. Co-chair of design team developing new program for preparation of urban teachers. Successfully negotiated state and University approval for new M.A.T. in elementary education. Co-chair of search committee for director of new program. Member of steering committee for educational unit at the University, preparing for accreditation visit in 2002. Director of Web Institute for Teachers (seventh consecutive summer in 2003). Developing programs for ongoing professional development of teachers in the integration of technology into teaching and learning. Fall, 2001-present.
Visitng Instructor, DePaul University, 2003-2004; taught two undergraduate sections of Philosophical Issues in Education.
Visiting Instructor, Chicago State University, 2003.
Taught “Philosophy of Education” graduate course to participants in Teachers for Chicagoland program in south suburbs.
Visiting Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998- present.
Taught “Graduate Seminar: Theory and Philosophy” in graduate program in art education, Fall 2001.
Designed and delivered graduate course on “New Technologies in Arts Administration” to graduate students in arts administration. Fall, 2000 and Spring 2001.
Co-taught “Rewiring the Arts Organization” to graduate students in arts administration. Responsible for teaching web design. Spring 2000.
Taught “History and Philosophy of Education” to undergraduate students majoring in art education. Summer 1998.
Web builder, Philosophy of Education Society, 1999 – present. (http://philosophyofeducation.org)
Web builder, John Dewey Society, 2000 – present. (http://johndeweysociety.org).
Member, Advisory Board, Hyde School – Woodstock. Assisted with evaluation of ongoing secondary education program emphasizing character education. 2001-2002.
Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Chicago. Taught Philosophy of Education (graduate and undergraduate levels) to students seeking teacher certification and others interested in the subject. Spring, 2000.
Director of Curriculum, Chicago Public Schools/University of Chicago Internet Project. Managed several projects designed to support teachers in the Chicago Public Schools as they worked to integrate the Internet into their teaching and learning. Participated in several successful grant applications (including one with Chicago Botanical Gardens, one with Kenwood Academy). 1999-2001
Director, Chicago WebDocent (the Museum/CUIP Curriculum Project), a project designed to develop appropriate, compelling, web-based curriculum, based on museum resources, for Chicago Public Schools. (http://chicagowebdocent.org) 1999-2001.
Director, Web Institute for Teachers, a four-week intensive teacher training program conducted by the Graham School of General Studies, University of Chicago. (http://webinstituteforteachers.org) 1999-present.
Consultant, Chicago Arts Partnership for Education. Member of planning committee funded by Dewitt Wallace-Readers Digest Fund, designing major professional development activities in technology for Chicago Public School teachers. 1999-present.
Director, Technology Infusion Institute and Technology Infusion Workshop, teacher training workshops conducted for the Chicago Public Schools Department of Learning Technologies. Summer 1999.
Discussion leader, Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago. Helped facilitate professional development seminar focusing on the philosophy of John Dewey. February 1998.
Consultant, CUIP (Chicago Public Schools/University of Chicago Internet Project). Help to design training and curriculum for collaborative project seeking to accelerate the use of telecommunications in Chicago Public Schools. 1997-1999.
Instructor, World Wide Web for Teachers: Tools and Techniques, a summer seminar offered by the Graham School of General Studies, University of Chicago. Summer 1997 and 1998.
Member, Review Board, Educational Theory, 1996-2000.
Trainer, Computer Services and Consulting, Inc., Chicago. Conducted numerous inservice training programs for teachers in the Chicago Public Schools. 1996-1998.
Assistant Professor, College of Education, Northeastern Illinois University, 1995-2000. (On one-year leave 1999-2000.)
Tenure-track appointment in Department of Educational Leadership and Development. Taught courses in history and philosophy of education, curriculum development, and educational technology. Chair of university-wide Faculty Advisory Committee on Instructional Technology and college-wide Faculty Collaborative Scholarship Activities Support Fund selection committee. Member of university-wide Faculty Senate, university-wide Library and University Media Services Advisory Committee, university-wide Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable, college-wide Technology Committee. Web-builder for College of Education.
Curriculum Consultant, GlobaLearn, Inc., New Haven, 1994-1996.
Providing planning oversight for start-up non-profit organization planning ambitious “trip around the world” with 100,000 American middle school students participating over the Internet.
Consultant and Grant Referee, The Smart Family Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1992-present
Provided detailed evaluations of grant proposals on educational reform.
Director of Studies, The Hyde Leadership School of Greater New Haven, 1994-1995.
The Hyde Leadership School is the first public school in the nation to incorporate Hyde’s “Character First” philosophy of education. Responsibilities included academic scheduling, restructuring, and teacher training, as well as financial and logistical support for the Director. Implemented a “team teaching” approach designed to meet the specific needs of our diverse student body.
Director of Curriculum and Evaluation, The Hyde Foundation, Bath, Maine, 1992-1994.
The Hyde Foundation was developing the Hyde concept of character education for export into the public schools. Responsibilities included articulation of concept; developing training materials; project evaluation; design and implementation of computer networking; and preparation of grant proposals.
Member, Board of Student Advisors, American Journal of Education, Chicago, Illinois, 1992-1993.
Trustee, Family and School Together, Inc., 1990-1995.
Secretary of non-profit corporation seeking to set up character and family education programs in public schools.
Visiting Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991-1992.
Taught three semesters of “History and Philosophy of Education” to art education students.
Editorial Assistant, Handbook of Research on Curriculum, edited by Philip W. Jackson (New York: MacMillan, 1992), 1990-1991.
Provided editorial feedback for contributors to this major compilation of research in curriculum and instruction; project sponsored by the American Educational Research Association.
Teaching Assistant and Writing Intern: "Political Economy," Professor Donald N. Levine; University of Chicago, 1990.
Research Assistant, Professor Anthony S. Bryk, Center for School Improvement, University of Chicago, 1989.
Performed research into the history of character education.
Consultant, Bell Consulting, Chicago, IL, 1988-1990.
Assisted development of prototype for computerized mathematics instruction workspace.
Member and recording secretary, Working Group on the Potential of New Technologies in Teaching Geometry and Measure, K-12, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1988-1990.
Curriculum Designer and Editor, University of Chicago Schools Mathematics Project, Chicago, Illinois, 1988-1990.
Editor and writer of primary school math curricula, and a primary editor of First Grade Everyday Mathematics, now being published by Everyday Math Tools of Evanston, Illinois.
Director of Program and Assistant Director of Studies. The Hyde School, Bath, Maine, 1986-88.
Responsible for school schedule, teaching assignments, curriculum development, computer training, and special events. Designed "The Sophomore Curriculum," an integrated class curriculum framework currently being implemented at Hyde School.
Teacher, The Hyde School, Bath, Maine, 1985-88.
Taught Chemistry, Geometry, Algebra I, II, and III, and a short course in Philosophy at innovative independent secondary boarding school which stresses character development and parental involvement. Directed instrumental music and tech crew for performing arts, coached track and the math team, and served as dorm parent.
Legal Administrator, Computer Systems of America, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, 1984-1985.
Law Clerk, Silber and Rubin, P.C., New York City, 1984.
Curriculum Consultant, Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, 1982.
Served as student member of a faculty group which redesigned the college’s liberal arts curriculum. Hired to serve on a special task force which worked on the curriculum during the summer, and authored the pamphlet: A Liberal Education: A Guide to the A. B. Curriculum at Lafayette College.
Editor-in-Chief, The Lafayette, 1982.
Publications (Partial List)
2007 “Dewey, Women, and Weirdoes: or, the Potential Rewards for Scholars who Dialogue across Difference,” with David Granger, Jane Fowler Morse, Barbara Stengel, and Terri Wilson. Education & Culture 23-2, 27-62.
2007 “In Search of the Extra-ordinary in the Ordinary: Philip Jackson and/on John Dewey,” by David Granger and Craig A. Cunningham, In A Life in Classrooms: Philip W. Jackson and the Practice of Education, May 2007; David T. Hansen, Mary Erina Driscoll, and René V. Arcilla, Editors. New York: Teachers College Press.
2006 Curriculum Webs: Weaving the Web into Teaching and Learning, 2nd edition. With Martha Billingsley. Boston: Allyn and Bacon. (Due in Spring, 2005).
2005 "A Certain and Reasoned Art: The Rise and Fall of Character Education in America," a chapter in Character Psychology and Character Education, to be edited by Daniel K. Lapsley and F. Clark Power, University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming (2004).
2002-2003 "Finding Useful John Dewey Resources on the World Wide Web," a series of three articles published in Insights, the newsletter of the John Dewey Society.
2003 "The Internet as a Tool for Shared Inquiry," an article that appeared in the inaugural issue of Jewish Educational Leadership, April 2003.
2003 Curriculum Webs: A Practical Guide to Weaving the Web into Teaching and Learning. With Martha Billingsley. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
2000 “Improving Our Nation's Schools through Computers and Connectivity: An Impossible Dream?” Brookings Review, Winter 2000 (Special issue on technologies); invited essay.
2000 "The Web Institute for Teachers: Engaging Teachers in Developing Web-Based Curriculum," with Ellen Diaryko and Frada Boxer. In D. A. Willis, J. D. Price, & J. Willis (Eds.), Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Proceedings 2000. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Also available at http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/talks/SITE2000.htm.
1999 “Transfroming Schools in a Nation of Workers/Consumers: A reply to Xiaodan Huang,” Philosophy of Education 1998 (Urbana: Philosophy of Education Society).
1996 “The Metaphysics of John Dewey’s Conception of the Self,” Philosophy of Education 1995: Current Issues. (Urbana: Philosophy of Education Society).
1995 “John Dewey’s Metaphysics and the Self,” in The New Scholarship of Dewey, edited by Jim Garrison, 175-192 (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers). This article also appears at Studies in Philosophy and Education 13(3-4): 343-360.
1994 “The Moral Consequences of John Dewey’s Metaphysics,” a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. at the University of Chicago.
1994 “Unique Potential: A Metaphor for John Dewey’s Later Conception of the Self,” Educational Theory 44(2): 211-224.
1992 “The Emergence of Character: Towards a Particularistic Moral Ontology,” a qualifying paper submitted to the Department of Education, University of Chicago, 1992.
1992 “A Certain and Reasoned Art: The Rise and Fall of Character Education in America,” a master’s paper submitted to the Department of Education, University of Chicago, April.
ADDRESSES (Partial List)
2007 Using Second Life to Support the Professional Development of Chicago Public School Teachers and Librarians, presentation to annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, Division K invited session, April in Chicago.
2007 Character Education in Public Schools: The Search for a Suitable Ontology, paper given at annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Moral Education SIG), at its annual meeting in April, in Chicago.
2007 Dewey's Metaphysics and the Self: A New Look, paper given at annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, March, Columbia, South Carolina.
2005 Organizing Learning Around Student Inquiry, with Sharon L. Comstock, to be presented at the Illinois Technology Conference for Educators (IL-TCE), March 03, in St. Charles, IL.
2004. Putting Passion On-Line: A Protocol for Building Motivation into Curriculum Webs, with coauthor Diana Joseph, to be given at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, March 1-6,
2003. The Technology Infusion Process: A Guide to Integrating Technology into Existing Lesson Plans, a professional development workshop for Jones College Preparatory High School, Chicago IL, January 31
2002 The Internet as a Tool for Student Inquiry, an invited address to the The Lookstein Center for Jewish School Leadership, Bar Ilan University, held at Nova Southeastern University, Miami, Florida, February.
2001. The Affordances of the Internet for PES Activities, part of a panel on issues related to technology at the Philosophy of Education Society annual meeting, April.
2000 Chicago WebDocent: A University, Public Schools, and Museum Collaboration for Web-Based Curriculum. With Anna Rochester and Mary Cobb, to be given at Musee Expo , Philadelphia, November 2000.
2000 Teacher-Initiated, Museum-Based, Curriculum Development: A Case Study, with Anna Rochester and Michelle Warden, National Educational Computing Conference (NECC 2000), June 2000.
2000 What if they are all right? A response to papers at the John Dewey Society annual meeting, April 2000.
2000 The Chicago WebDocent: Web-based Curriculum from Multiple Museums, with Nenette Luarca and Anna Rochester, Museums and the Web conference, April 2000. Available online at http://www.archimuse.com/mw2000/papers/luarca/luarca.html.
2000 "The Web Institute for Teachers: Engaging Teachers in Developing Web-Based Curriculum," with Ellen Diaryko and Frada Boxer. In D. A. Willis, J. D. Price, & J. Willis (Eds.), Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education Proceedings 2000. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Also available at http://cuip.uchicago.edu/wit/talks/SITE2000.htm.
1999. What Can John Dewey’s Theory of Habit Teach Us About Drug Education? a paper given to the American Educational Research Association and John Dewey Society at their annual meeting, April 1999.
1998 The World Wide Web and the Coming Revolution in Education, an invited address to the College of Education at Northeastern Illinois University, April.
1997 Putting Character at the Center of Drug Abuse Prevention, an invited address at the New Hampshire Character Resources Conference, Bedford, October 3.
1995 The Indeterminate Metaphysician: On Interpreting John Dewey’s Generic Traits, a paper given as part of a Symposium on “Reconsiderations: Doing Dewey Studies Today,” at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April.
1995 Pertinent Ideals: The Role of Imagination in John Dewey’s Theory of Moral Inquiry, an invited paper given to the College of Education at Miami University, Oxford Ohio, April.
1995 The Metaphysics of John Dewey’s Conception of the Self, a paper given at the annual meeting of the Philosophy of Education Society, San Francisco, March.
1994 Ideal Ends: John Dewey’s Later Conception of Education, a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April.
1993 Character Education: An Interventionist Approach, an invited address at Randolph-Macon College, Ashland, Virginia, April.
1993 Unique Potential: A Metaphor for John Dewey’s Moral Self, a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, April.
1991 Dewey's Daimon: Towards a Teleology of Pragmatism, an address to the Schools and Schooling Workshop, University of Chicago Department of Education, May.
PERSONAL
Organizations: Fellow, Philosophy of Education Society; American Educational Research Association, Division B; President, Philosophical Studies in Education SIG; Director and Web-Builder, John Dewey Society; Phi Beta Kappa; International Society for Technology in Education; Illinois Computing Educators
Avocations: Instrumental music; painting; computers; bicycle riding; home remodeling.
Technical Skills: Power computer user since 1982. Unix, Windows, MS Office, Photoshop, HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash, Web 2.0, Second Life. Author of numerous web pages and web sites. Designed and constructed database of philosophical texts. Experience with linking databases to applications.
Married: Since 1991 to Cheryl Wegner (a professional librarian); daughter Rowan, born November 1993; son Thomas, born June 2001.