Today I led the department of Educational Policy Studies & Evaluation‘s Lunch & Connect meeting on Zoom, focusing on the topic: “Research Trajectories: From Idea to Presentation, to Journal Article, to Book.” I had intended to record the meeting, but due to some of the complication of starting a zoom meeting, making sure people had…
On Tuesday, October 13th, 2020, I was invited to give a talk for the Lewis Honors College at the University of Kentucky on “Undergraduate Research Beyond the Classroom.” This talk is also potentially of interest to students in my EPE 301 course on Education in American Culture. Really, this talk is for any undergraduate who…
Every semester, I mention several tools in my classes that I get asked about time and again, so I decided to make a quick video about them. I explain that in the last 5 years, text-to-speech programs have revolutionized how I consume text and how I edit documents. Programs that can read to you allow…
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates at the University of Kentucky, watch this VIDEO (4m29s) about why you should take my EPE 525 / 640 course in the fall of 2020 on the Philosophy of Education. The EPE 525 course is the undergraduate version of the EPE 640 class, which is for graduate students, and both…
I’m excited to announce that my latest paper has been published in the journal, Essays in Philosophy, volume 21, issue 1/2, in 2020. If you want to read the paper, you can click on the image below or click here. [featured-image link=”https://www.pdcnet.org/scholarpdf/show?id=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045&pdfname=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045.pdf&file_type=pdf” link_single=”https://www.pdcnet.org/scholarpdf/show?id=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045&pdfname=eip_2020_0021_0001_0029_0045.pdf&file_type=pdf” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Image of the top of my paper, ‘The Pragmatist’s Call to Democratic…
A moving & humane argument concerning medicare and opioid prescriptions* There is no question that every reasonable and effective method to stop the opioid epidemic should be investigated, and if proven effective, implemented. The horrors and wrecked lives this epidemic have caused are all too real to many people of all ages. However, we must…
In the spring of 2020, I’ll be teaching Ethics and Educational Decision Making, EPE 628, with both face-to-face AND synchronously online sections! The class meets on Tuesday from 4-6:30pm. Consider signing up or tell your friends who might. [featured-image link=”http://ericthomasweber.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EPE628-FB.jpg” link_single=”http://ericthomasweber.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/EPE628-FB.jpg” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Image of a road that forks, next to the text of the name…
Graduate students and advanced undergraduates at the University of Kentucky, watch this VIDEO (4m29s) about why you should take my EPE 640 course this fall on the Philosophy of Education. [youtube id=”PHIKvuteoHM”] Advanced undergraduates, if you’d like to take this course, email the instructor at eric.t.weber@uky.edu. Why study the Philosophy of Education? a) Educators…
I’m pleased to report on two exciting invitations I’ve had to speak in the spring of 2019. For one of them, the Ron Messerich Distinguished Lecture that I delivered in February, I spoke on “Correcting Political Correctness,” a piece from my book in progress titled A Culture of Justice. On Tuesday, February 26th, I gave…
It is my great pleasure to announce that I’ll be joining the department of Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation at the University of Kentucky as associate professor in August of 2018. [featured-image link=”http://ericthomasweber.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/UKY.jpg” link_single=”http://ericthomasweber.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/UKY.jpg” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”The University of Kentucky.”] Over the years, I have had the immense honor to work with countless outstanding students in Public…