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Kenneth Howe has been named the 2016 recipient of the 鈥檚 Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement. The award honors a scholar-practitioner who exemplifies, over a lifetime of work, the Deweyan tradition of connecting the worlds of theory and practice in promoting the development of democratic citizens,听and/or听an exceptional explicator听of听the听Dewey鈥� philosophy and educational theory.
Nominated by colleagues and advisees, Howe鈥檚 nomination letter details his more than four decades of outstanding contributions to educational philosophy and policy and his steadfast concern for democratic purposes and practices in educational research and policies.听
鈥淧rofessor Howe has continued Dewey鈥檚 tradition of bridging philosophical analysis and social action,鈥� states the nomination letter by Kristen Davidson, Jarrod Hanson, Darrell Jackson, David Meens, Michele Moses, Kevin Murray, and Terri Wilson.
鈥淚mportantly鈥攁nd for many of us writing this letter鈥攈e has mentored graduate students and younger scholars into the field. Many of us read Dewey for the first time with Professor Howe, and through his mentorship, we have come to appreciate the abiding commitments to democracy that have guided his scholarship, teaching and service. Professor Howe has not only explicated and interpreted Dewey鈥檚 philosophy, but embodied and extended his ideas in the context of pressing contemporary educational issues.听.鈥�
Howe has been with the School of Education at CU 麻豆影院 since 1987. In 2013, he was elected President of the Philosophy of Education Society, the highest honor for a philosopher of education. He is widely recognized for his analyses of education policy, professional ethics, and philosophy of education.听In his now classic book, Understanding Equal Educational Opportunity: Social Justice, Democracy, and Schooling,听Professor Howe draws on Dewey听to make a compelling case for a participatory interpretation of equality of educational opportunity. His scholarship鈥攖hrough his own work and influence on others鈥攈as been a central voice in the fields of equal opportunity, ethics, and democratic education.
Professor Howe is set to retire later this year. .听