Professor of Philosophy

Office: Winningham 104C
Phone: (704) 547-2183
Fax: (704) 547-2172
E-Mail: smfishma@uncc.edu

Professional Interest

John Dewey; Philosophy of Education; Teacher Classroom Research.

Publications

Books

• and McCarthy, L.P.  John Dewey and The Philosophy and Practice of Hope.  University of Illinois Press (2007).
• and McCarthy, L.P. Whose Goals? Whose Aspirations? Learning To Teach Underprepared Writers Across The Curriculum. Utah State University Press (2002).
• and McCarthy, L.P. Unplayed Tapes: A Personal History of Collaborative Teacher Research, Teachers College Press, Columbia University (2000).
• and McCarthy, L.P. John Dewey and The Challenge of Classroom Practice. Teachers College Press, Columbia University (1998). [Received the 2000 James N. Britton Award for Inquiry Within the English Language Arts].
  

Journal Articles

• "The Morality and Politics of Hope: John Dewey in Dialogue with Positive Psychology." Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (2005), Vol. XLI, No. 3: 675-701.
• "Looking to Dewey and Freire for Hope in Dark Times." Educational Practice and Theory (2005), Vol. XXVII, No. 1: 25-48.
• "Marcel and Dewey on Hope: Radical Differences, Noteworthy Similarities." Philosophy Today (2005), Vol. XLVIIII, no. 2: 185-207.
• "Talk About Race: When Student Stories and Multicultural Curricula Are Not Enough." Race Ethnicity and Education (2005), Vol. VIII, No. 4: 347-364.
• and McCarthy, L.P. "An ESL Writer and Her Discipline-Based Professor: Making Progress Even When Goals Don't Match." Written Communication 18 (April 2001): 180-228.
• and McCarthy, L.P. "Teaching for Student Change: A Deweyan Alternative to Radical Pedagogy." College Composition and Communication 47 (Oct. '96): 342-366.
• and McCarthy, L.P. "Community in the Expressivist Classroom: Juggling Liberal and Communitarian Visions." College English 57 (jan. 1995): 62-81.
• "Explicating Our Tacit Tradition: John Dewey and Composition Studies." College Composition and Communication 44 (Oct.1993): 315-330.
• and McCarthy, L.P. "Is Expressivism Dead? Reconsidering Its Romantic Roots & Its Relation to Social Constructionism." College English 54 (Oct. 1992); 647-661.
• and McCarthy, L.P. "Boundary Conversations: Conflicting Ways of Knowing in Intro to Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research." Research in the Teaching of English 25 (Dec. 1991): 419-468. [Received the 1993 James N. Britton Award for Inquiry within the English Language Arts]
• "Writing and Philosophy." Teaching Philosophy 12 (Dec. 1989): 361-374.
• "Writing-To-Learn in Philosophy." Teaching Philosophy 8 (Oct. 1985): 331-334.

Book Chapters

• "Paulo Freire's Politics and Pedagogy" (with L.P. McCarthy).Ethical Visions of Education, Ed. David T. Hansen. (Teachers College Press, 2007): 35-45.
• "Foundations of Deweyan Democracy: Human Nature, Intelligence, and Cooperative Inquiry." Experiencing John Dewey, Ed.s Breault, Donna, and Rick Breault. Indianapolis: Kappa Delta Pi, 2005, 126-129.
• "When Writing-to-Learn is Not Enough" (with L.P. McCarthy). Crossing The Curriculum: Teaching and Learning from Multilingual Students. Ed.s Vivian Zamel and Ruth Spack. Earlbaum, 2004. 145-162.
• "Student Writing in Philosophy." Writing to Learn Strategies for Assigning and Responding to Writing Across the Disciplines. Ed.s, Mary Dean Sorcinelli and Peter Elbow. (Jossey-Bass, 1997): 53-66.
• and McCarthy, L.P. "A Text for Many Voices: Representing Diversity in Reports of Naturalistic Research." Ethics and Representation in Qualitative Studies of Literacy. Ed.s, Peter Mortenson and Gesa E. Kirsch. (NCTE Press, 1997): 134-154.
• "Marital Friendship: Toward a Reconception of Romantic Love." Sex, Love, and Friendship. Ed., Alan Soble. (Rodopi, 1997): 421-427.
• "Interchange: A Conversation Among the Disciplines." (with Abbot, Bartelt, and Honda) Ed.s, Anne Herrington & Charles Moran. (Modern Language Association, 1992): 103-118.

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