Richard Kahn

I am a transdisciplinary critical theorist of society with specializations in the philosophy and history of education. While my work is wide ranging I am probably best known as a scholar who has studied and promoted liberatory social movements, along with other peace and justice-oriented change groups, linking their struggles to the reconstruction of education and vice-versa in the name of planetary sustainability.

From 2010 to 2021, I served as Core Faculty in Education at Antioch University Los Angeles, where I was the primary teacher, advisor and steward of the Master of Arts graduate program in Education, Leadership & Change. For the last four years I was also a member of the team that designed and founded the Ed.D. in Educational and Professional Practice, for which I taught the class EDU7100 Social, Philosophical and Historical Contexts in Education from May-August, 2020. From July 2021 onwards I will serve as Core Faculty in the Ed.D. program, teaching and advising students--primarily for the specializations in critical pedagogy and environmental/sustainability education.

For more information on the program, see: https://www.antioch.edu/academics/education/edd-in-educational-professional-practice

Prior to Antioch, I was doctoral faculty at the University of North Dakota from 2007-2010. I have worked with mentoring doctoral students in a variety of contexts over the last decade-plus including serving regularly as an outside committee member for students in other universities, both nationally and internationally.

I have been invited to speak and teach on matters of critical pedagogy and sustainability in Austria, Norway, Canada, Mexico, Italy, China, Turkey and various universities within the United States.

My books and research articles have won awards, been widely cited and I am known for being an influential scholar involved in furthering fields of study such as: ecopedagogy/critical pedagogy, critical animal studies, critical media literacy, and posthumanism -- especially as these are taken up within the discipline of Education proper.

I have served as an elected Executive Council member of the American Educational Studies Association (as well as its Director of Communications) and as an American Educational Research Association Section Chair in Division B: Curriculum Studies, as well as Chair and Program Chair of the Environmental Education SIG; Paulo Freire, Critical Pedagogy, and Emancipatory Education SIG; and Ivan Illich SIG. In 2019, I completed a cycle as Co-Editor of the California Council on Teacher Education's journal, Issues in Teacher Education. I am presently organizing a Sustainability Ed affinity group for the latter organization.
Supervisors: Lesley Jackson and Ph.D.
Phone: 818-201-8583
Address: Antioch University Los Angeles
400 Corporate Pointe
Culver City, CA 90230

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