About the Author
Patrick Slattery is Professor of Curriculum Development and Philosophy of Education and Regents Scholar in the Academy for Educator Development at Texas A&M University in College Station. He holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Teaching, Learning & Culture and Educational Administration & Human Resource Development. He is a lecturer in the summer leadership academy of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and co-director of the Texas A&M Governor’s School in Arts and Humanities for Urban Leadership for high-achieving high school seniors. He teaches courses in Philosophy of Education, Curriculum Theory, Social Foundations of Education, and Arts-Based Research. His additional books include: the co-authored text with Dana Rapp Ethics and the Foundations of Education: Teaching Convictions in a Postmodern World (Allyn and Bacon, 2003); the co-authored text with William Pinar, William Reynolds, and Peter Maas Taubman Understanding Curriculum (Peter Lang Publishers, 1995); and the co-authored text with Joe Kincheloe and Shirley Steinberg Contextualizing Teaching (Addison-Wesley Longman, 2000). Patrick Slattery has published research articles in Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Curriculum Studies, Educational Theory, Qualitative Inquiry, Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, and Curriculum Inquiry (among many others). He is a former editor of JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing and the co-editor (with James Henderson of Kent State University) of The Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. Patrick Slattery is the Past President of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS), a member of Professors of Curriculum, the former chair of the Arts-Based Educational Research SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a council member of the Curriculum and Pedagogy Group (C&P). He is also an artist, lecturer, and activist for social justice issues in Austin, Texas. The central theme of his work is the promotion of a just, compassionate, and ecologically sustainable global culture through holistic and reconceptualized approaches to curriculum, constructive postmodern understandings of education, queer studies in gender and sexuality, and Process philosophical visions of creativity and change. In his research he contends that spiritual, ethical, and social transformation is intimately linked to visual culture, public pedagogy, and aesthetics, and that wisdom can emerge in the artistic process.
Dr. Patrick Slattery standing at the southern tip of the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa
Interview with the Author
2011 Podcast Interview with Dr. Patrick Slattery by Professor Mei Hoyt
