Craig Cunningham

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Biography

Craig A. Cunningham, Ph.D. started teaching in 1985 as a math and science teacher in high school. Later, he attended the University of Chicago, where he received a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Curriculum in 1994. He then taught history and philosophy of education and curriculum development for four years at Northeastern Illinois University before returning to the University of Chicago as a research associate at the Center for Urban School Improvement, where he developed technology professional development for Chicago-area teachers and helped establish the new Urban Teacher Education Program. He's been at National-Louis since 2004, where he teaches technology in education and philosophy of education courses.

Education

A.B., A. M. (Education)
Ph.D. Philosophy of Curriculum

Publications

Cunningham, Craig A. and Kimball Harrison. 2010. The Affordances of Second Life for Education. In Teaching through Multi-User Virtual Environments: Applying Dynamic Elements to the Modern Classroom, edited by Giovanni Vincenti and James Braman. Hershey PA: IGI Global. 2009

Cunningham, Craig A. 2009. Transforming Schooling through Technology: 21st Century Approaches to Participatory Learning. In Dewey at One Hundred-Fifty. Reflections for a New Century, edited by A.G. Rud, Jim Garrison, and Lynda Stone. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Univ. Press. 2009

Cunningham, Craig A. and Briana Allen. 2009. Philosophical Questions about Learning Technologies: A Ground-Map. In Richard Bailey, David Carr, Robin Barrow and Christine McCarthy (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Education. London: SAGE. 2009 Cunningham, Craig A. 2009.

Review of David Granger, John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living: Revisioning Aesthetic Education. In Studies in Philosophy and Education (Online): 2008

Cunningham, Craig A. 2008. "Book Review: Richard Shusterman, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics," Education and Culture 24 (2): 54-59. 2008

Cunningham, Craig A. 2008. "Review Article: Artful Writing about Artful Living; Review of David Granger's John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and the Art of Living." Journal of Philosophy of Education. 42 (2): 333-340.

Presentations

Is Instructional Technology Democratic? A paper given at the European Conference on Educational Research, Vienna, September 30, 2009.

What is Philosophical about Instructional Technology, panel session with A.G. Rud, Nicholas Burbules, and Megan Bolder at the Philosophy of Education Society annual meeting, March 2009, Montreal.

A Gold Standard for Technology Integration. Keynote Address at Awards Ceremony for South Cook LTC, March, 2009, St. Charles.

Making Time for a Second Life, Spotlight Session at Illinois Technology Conference for Educators, March 2008, St. Charles.

The ELVEN Institute: Building the preK-12 Educational Community in Second Life, a presentation to the Second Life Community Convention, August 26, 2007, Chicago.

Goal-based Scenarios for Online Teacher Education, roundtable at 23rd Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning, Madison WI, August 8-10, 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 2007 in Chicago.

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 2007, in Chicago.

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.