Judith Herb College of Education : Associate Professor

Dale T. Snauwaert, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Educational Theory and Social Foundations of Education at The University of Toledo. He received his B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1983, an M.Ed. in Educational Policy and Ph.D. in Philosophy of Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990. He is the author of Democracy, Education, and Governance: A Developmental Conception (State University of New York Press, 1993), which received an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award in 1995. He has published in such academic journals as Educational Theory, Journal of Educational Thought, Peabody Journal of Education, Holistic Education Review, Current Issues in Comparative Education, and Encounter on such topics as democratic education, the nature of teaching, moral education, holistic education, and international ethics. He is currently working on a book on the ethics of war and peace and human rights education. His research interests focus on two areas: moral and political philosophy as they pertain to educational theory, especially the ethics of war and peace, democracy, and human rights, and the nature of spirituality and holistic education. He teaches courses in the philosophy and social foundations of education.