Meet Dr. Falk

Professor TF, or Dr. Falk as he’s known in the classroom, has spent the past decade teaching and advising students at the Ohio State University and the University of Dayton. His writings appear in over a dozen academic publications and he has been quoted in mainstream outlets. In addition to being published, Dr. Falk has delivered educational talks to audiences around the country and the globe.

Dr. Falk holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Education from the Ohio State University and attended Ohio University for his undergraduate studies. He grew up in Northeast Ohio and likes dark beers and overcast weather.

Publications

Take a deeper dive into the mind of Professor TF. Check out this selection of his published academic works.

 

Thomas Falk, “Wage Slaves,” Critical Understandings in Education Encyclopedia: Critical Whiteness Studies, 2021.

 

Thomas Falk, “Empire of Ego: An Educational and Phenomenological Perspective from Dayton’s Quadruplet Crises,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Education 16(1), 2020.

 

Thomas Falk, “Humanity in the Womb of History,” Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education 3, 2018.

 

Bryan Warnick, Todd Bitters, Thomas Falk, & Sang-Hyun Kim, “Social Media Use and Teacher Ethics,” Educational Policy 30(5), 2016.

 

Thomas Falk, “Are Unmotivated Students Cultural Critics?” Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education 2, 2014.

 

Thomas Falk, “Literacy as Dialogue,” Philosophical Studies in Education 41, 2010.

 

Thomas Falk, “Psychedelic Phenomenology Primitive and Bourgeois: A Critical Response to Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind,” Journal of Consciousness Studies 27(1-2), 2020.

 

Thomas Falk, “Catholic Education in a Neoliberal Age,” Association of Catholic Institutes of Education: Catholicism, Culture, Education, 2018.

 

Thomas Falk, “History as Critique and Source of Ideology in Education: A Philosophical Analysis of Tucson’s Outlawed Mexican-American Studies Program,” The Relationship and the Need of History and Philosophy of education, 2016.

 

Thomas Falk, “Democracy, Capitalism, and Educational Opportunity from Horace Mann to the Present,” Critical Education 5(10), 2014.

 

Thomas Falk, “Middle-Class Curriculum and the Failure of ‘Achievement,’” Bajo Palabra: Revista de Filosofia 2(6), 2011.

 

Thomas Falk, Sam Rocha, & Bryan Warnick, “Social Science and Its Discontents: An Essay Review of Bent Flyvbjerg’s Making Social Science Matter,” Education Review 12(4), 2009.

Contact

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tom@professortf.com