The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education
Kathy Hytten
Author Information
Kathy Hytten is a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG) and Program Director for the Doctorate in Education (EdD) program. After receiving her PhD in Social Foundations of Education, specializing in Educational Philosophy, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kathy spent 17 years as a professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale before moving to UNCG in 2013. Kathy teaches graduate courses in democracy and education, qualitative research, philosophy of education, sociology of education, cultural diversity, ethics and social justice, race, equity, and educational leadership. In her research, Kathy aims to make theoretically abstract ideas useful, accessible, and meaningful to prospective and practicing educators and administrators. Towards that end, she has published essays on diversity, ethics, hope, cultural studies, whiteness theory, globalization and education for social justice and democracy. Her work has appeared in a variety of books and journals, including Democracy and Education, Educational Theory, Education and Culture, Educational Studies, Equity and Excellence in Education, Educational Foundations, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Philosophy of Education, Journal of Philosophy of Education, and the Journal of Curriculum Studies. Kathy is a Past-President of the Philosophy of Education Society (2019) and the American Educational Studies Association (2009).
Contributors:
Bridget Allan, University of Queensland
Barbara Applebaum, Syracuse University
Sonja Arndt, University of Melbourne
Lynda Avendaño Santana, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
David Backer, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Darío Luis Banegas, University of Strathclyde
Ronald Barnett, University College London
Søren S.E. Bengtsen, Aarhus University
Lauren Bialystok, University of Toronto
Ben Bindewald, Oklahoma State University Stillwater
J.C. Blokhuis, University of Waterloo
Emile Bojesen, University of Winchester
Inga Bostad, University of Oslo
Gregory Bourassa, University of Northern Iowa
David Bridges, University of East Anglia and St Edmund's College and Homerton College Cambridge
Gregory Bynum, State University of New York at New Paltz
April Caddell, The University of Alabama
David R. Cole, University of Western Sydney
Mike Cole, University of East London
Josh Corngold, The University of Tulsa
Edisson Cuervo-Montoya, Universidad del Valle
Randall Curren, University of Rochester
Nuraan Davids, Stellenbosch University
Doret de Ruyter, University of Humanistic Studies
Samantha Deane, Loyola University Chicago
Modesta Di Paola, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Joseph Jinja Divala, University of Johannesburg
Nina Bonderup Dohn, University of Southern Denmark
Paul Farber, Western Michigan University
Amanda Fulford, Edge Hill University
Dianne Gereluk, University of Calgary
Andrew Gibbons, Auckland University of Technology
Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer, Texas Tech University
Rosnani Hashim, International Islamic University Malaysia
Matt Hastings, University of Colorado Boulder
Jennifer Hatten-Flisher, Eastern Michigan University
Mary Hauser, Stanford University Graduate School of Education
Rebecca Heaton, National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore
Guðmundur Heiðar Frímannsson, University of Akureyri Iceland
Ruth Heilbronn, University College London Institute of Education
Jessica A. Heybach, Aurora University
Richard Hickman, University of Cambridge
Philip Higgs, University of South Africa
Mary Jo Hinsdale, Westminster College
Pádraig Hogan, National University of Ireland Maynooth
Hansjörg Hohr, University of Oslo
Nina Hood, University of Auckland
Kai Horsthemke, University of the Witwatersrand
Ruyu Hung, National Chiayi University
Kathy Hytten, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kanako W. Ide, Soka University and University of Maryland Global Campus
Liz Jackson, Education University of Hong Kong
Clarence W. Joldersma, Calvin University
Taro Komatsu, Sophia University
Ashley Floyd Kuntz, Florida International University
Tone Kvernbekk, University of Oslo
Elisabet Langmann, Södertörn University
Dan Mamlok, Tel Aviv University
Viviana Mancovsky, Universidad Nacional de San Martín
Troy A. Martin, Virginia Commonwealth University
Christopher Martin, The University of British Columbia
Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Eastern Michigan University
Cris Mayo, University of Vermont
Kevin McDonough, McGill University
Nadeem A. Memon, University of South Australia
Dini Metro-Roland, Western Michigan University
Carl Mika, The University of Waikato
Mousumi Mukherjee, International Institute for Higher Education Research & Capacity Building, O.P. Jindal Global University
Karin Murris, University of Cape Town
Peter Nelsen, Appalachian State University
Nassim Noroozi, McGill University
B. B. North, Teachers College, Columbia University
Maria Øksnes, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Janis T. Ozolins, The University of Notre Dame Australia
Marianna Papastephanou, University of Cyprus
And Pasley, University of Auckland
Irene Pérez López, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
John E. Petrovic, The University of Alabama
Dirk Postma, University of South Africa
Juho Ritola, University of Turku
Peter Roberts, University of Canterbury
Noah Romero, University of Auckland
Suzanne Rosenblith, Clemson University
Rocío Rueda Ortiz, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional
Emily Sadowski, Simon Fraser University
Naoko Saito, Kyoto University
Doris A. Santoro, Bowdoin College
Sarah Schneider Kavanagh, University of Pennsylvania
Marina Schwimmer, Université du Québec à Montréal
Amy Shuffelton, Loyola University Chicago
Lisa Sibbett, University of Washington, Bothell
Kaitlin Smalley, University of Queensland
Tamara Sober, Virginia Commonwealth University
Hugh Sockett, George Mason University
Kurt Stemhagen, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sarah M. Stitzlein, University of Cincinnati
Torill Strand, University of Oslo
Ingerid Straume, University of Oslo
Einar Sundsdal, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jieun Sung, University of Virginia
Charlene Tan, Nanyang Technological University
Rebecca M. Taylor, University of Illinois
Marek Tesar, University of Auckland
Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Stephen J. Thoma, University of Alabama
Matthew Thomas-Reid, Appalachian State University
Winston C. Thompson, University of New Hampshire
John Tillson, Liverpool Hope University
Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA
Daniel Tröhler, University of Vienna
Alejandro Uribe Zapata, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Julián Alberto Uribe-García, Universidad de Antioquia
Susan Verducci, San José State University
Luis Sebastián Villacañas de Castro, Universitat de València
Moira von Wright, Åbo Akademi University
Yusef Waghid, Stellenbosch University
Rachel Wahl, University of Virginia
David Ian Walker, University of Alabama
Chia-Ling Wang, National Taiwan Ocean University
Ilmi Willbergh, University of Agder
Lynne Wolbert, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Mujadad Zaman, University of Tübingen
Michalinos Zembylas, Open University of Cyprus