Faculty Directory
Chris Higgins
Department Chair, Department of Formative Education
Associate Professor
Chris Higgins
Ph.D.
Contact
Campion 215
Telephone: 617-552-4200
Email: christopher.higgins@bc.edu
Education
- Ph.D., Columbia University
- B.A., Yale University
Courses
The Art of Educational Inquiry
Philosophy of Formative Education
Readings and Research in Formative Education
Colloquium in Formative Education
Research Interests
Formative education; virtue ethics; education as a public good; philosophy of work; teacher identity and development; aesthetic education; hermeneutics; transformative dialogue; teacher-student relationship; humanism; liberal education; corporatization of higher education.
Expertise
- Formative and Whole Person Education
- Philosophy of Education
Department
Select Publications
Higgins, C. (2021). Education, pluralism, and the dynamics of difference. In D. Hansen and M. Laverty (eds.), A history of western philosophy of education, vol. 5, The contemporary landscape (1914-present), ed. Anna Pages, 23-55. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.
Higgins, C. (2018). The public and private in education. In P. Smeyers (Ed.), International handbook of philosophy of education (Vol. 2, pp. 801-820). Dordrecht: Springer.
Higgins, C. (Ed.). (2018). "Education in a minor key." Special issue. Educational Theory, 68(2): 139-233.
Higgins, C. (2018). The death spiral of contemporary public higher education. Thresholds in Education, 41(3), 185-200.
Higgins, C. (2016). The promise, pitfalls, and persistent challenge of action research. Ethics and Education, 11(2), 230-239.
Higgins, C. (Ed.). (2015). "Humane education: Recovering the humanistic dimensions of teaching, learning, and research." Special Issue. Educational Theory, 65(6), 611-754.
Higgins, C. (2011). The Good Life of Teaching: An Ethics of Professional Practice. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
Higgins, C. (2011). The possibility of public education in an instrumentalist age. Educational Theory, 61(4), 451-466.
Higgins, C. (2009). Open-mindedness in three dimensions. Paideusis, 18(1), 44-59.
Higgins, C. (2008). Instrumentalism and the clichés of aesthetic education: A Deweyan corrective. Education and Culture, 23(3), 7-20.