Research and Publications

Meens, D. (2011, November 4). Occupy Wall Street and Funding Public Education: What’s the Connection? Daily Camera.

Meens, D. E. (2012). Contesting Philosophical Authority in the Belly of El Monstruo: A Case Study in Nonideal Political Theory and Epistemic Democracy. Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest Dissertation Publishing.

Meens, D. E. (2012). The Politics and Philosophy of “Serving America”: An Exploration of the Conceptual Basis of Federal Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Initiatives. Philosophy of Education 2012. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Shaping Turnaround Policies and School Improvement Efforts to Advance Education and Democracy. Policy brief presentation with Kenneth Howe. The Sixth Annual National Education Policy Center (NEPC) Fellows Panel, Boulder, CO (Sept. 7, 2012).

Meens, D. E. (2013). Philosopher, Know Thyself: Metaphilosophical and Methodological Reflection in Philosophy of Education as Requisite for Successful Interdisciplinarity. Philosophy of Education 2013. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Howe, K. R. and Meens, D. E. (2012, October 16). Democracy Left Behind: How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Education.National Education Policy Center, Boulder, CO.

Meens, D. E. (2017). Even Philosophers of Education Get the Blues: A "Relevancy Dilemma" in the Gap Between Past and Future. Philosophy of Education 2016. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Meens, D. E. (2016). Democratic Education versus Smithian Efficiency: Prospects for a Deweyan Ideal in the “Neoliberal Age.” Educational Theory 66(1/2): 211-226.

Meens, D. E. and Howe, K. R. (2015). NCLB and its Wake: Bad News for Democracy. Teachers College Record, 117(5): 1-44.

Meens, D. E. (2015). Democratic Ideals in American Education Policy, Practice, and Scholarship: A Philosophical Analysis and Reconstruction. Ann Arbor, MI: ProQuest Dissertation Publishing.

Meens, D. E. (2014). Democratic and Social Justice Goals in Service-Learning Evaluation: Contemporary Challenges and Conceptual Resources. Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning 21(1): 41-54.

Meens, D. E. (2014). Deeper than Emotion and Reason: Moral Motivation and Education for Global Citizenship. Philosophy of Education 2014. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.

Berliner, D. C., Glass, G. V., & Associates (2014). 50 Myths & Lies that Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education. NY: Teachers College Press. (Primary author of "Myth #30: Character Education will Save our Youth and Strengthen the Nation's Moral Fiber"; "Myth #32: American Education is Being Dumbed Down"; "Myth #38: Education Benefits Children Individually, Not the Public in General")

Meens, D. E. (2018). Facts. Values and Democracy Worth Wanting: Strategic Public Deliberation in the Era of Trump. The Good Society: A Journal of Civic Studies 26(2-3): 274-239.

Meens, D. E. (2020). Neoliberalism Stretched Thin? Analytic Vagaries of an Indispensable Concept. Philosophy of Education Archive 2018. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society.