Author: John Baldacchino
John Baldacchino specializes in art, philosophy and education. He is currently Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning and the Student Experience and Associate Professor of Arts Pedagogy at the School of Art & Design, University College Falmouth, in England. Prior to his current position, he was Associate Professor of Art & Art Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York; before which he held academic positions at Gray’s School of Art in Scotland as Reader in Critical Theory; and at the University of Warwick in England as Lecturer of Arts Education and Cultural Studies. He is the sole author of six books, the most recent being «Art’s Way Out: Exit Pedagogy and the Cultural Condition» (Sense 2012); «Makings of the Sea: Journey, Doubt and Nostalgia» (Gorgias 2010); and «Education Beyond Education. Self and the Imaginary in Maxine Greene’s Philosophy» (Peter Lang 2009). He is currently completing a co-authored book with the philosopher of education Kenneth Wain, and is writing a new book on John Dewey, which will be published by Springer at the end of this year. His longer term Mediterranean aesthetics trilogy, of which Makings of the Sea is the first volume, is on course and progressing well.
