In this sixty-first episode of the Philosophy Bakes Bread radio show and podcast, the second that aired in 2018, co-hosts Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Cliff Harbour on “The Future of Community College Education,” the theme of his 2015 book, John Dewey and the Future of Community College Education.
Cliff is Professor of Counseling and Higher Education at the University of North Texas, which he joined in 2017. From 2008 until this move, he taught at the University of Wyoming, and before that at Colorado State University. He has an impressive philosophical background, having majored in Philosophy as an undergraduate, before studying the law. After that, he headed to Duke University for his master’s degree in Philosophy, and then completed his doctorate in education at North Carolina State University.
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(1 hr 5 mins)
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Notes
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- Cliff Harbour, John Dewey and the Future of Community College Education (London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, 2014).
- Richard Field, “John Dewey,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
- “Fast Facts on Completion Rates,” the National Center for Education Statistics.
You Tell Me!
For our future “You Tell Me!” segments, Cliff posed the following question in this episode:
“Where do you see philosophy reflected, displayed, exhibited in the arts, like literature and film?”
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