Dr. Andrew R. Alexander

Planning Workshops Member, Humanities Scholar
Professor of Humanities, Valencia Community College/
West Campus

Education:

Columbia University Teacher's College, New York

Ed. D.  May 1983
M. Ed. May 1981
M.A.    May 1979
Major - Philosophy of Education
Minor - History of Education

Columbia College, Columbia University, New York

B.A.
Major - Philosophy
Minor - Religion

Experience:

Professor of Humanities, Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL  1985-current

Responsibilities:  Taught various humanities courses, including philosophy

Adjunct Faculty, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL  1984

Responsibilities:  Lectured course to undergraduates:  "Measurement" - An exploration of techniques of evaluation in education.

Teacher, Twin Lakes High School, Palm Beach, FL  1984

Responsibilities:  Taught "Social Studies" to High School Students

Adjunct Faculty, Nova University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL  1983-85

Responsibilities:  Courses in the Graduate Education Module offered to Ed. Specialists

Practicums Advisor, Nova University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL  1983

Responsibilities:  Advised M.S. and Ed. S. students on practicum format, and guided students through process of meeting acceptable project standards.

Teaching Assistant, Columbia University, New York, 1981

Responsibilities:  Assisted professor in course to undergraduates:  "Philosophical analysis of educational concepts."  This included grading papers, providing tutorials to students, and coaching to improve students' writing skills.

Research Associate, Grant from the Hastings Foundation, New York  1981

Responsibilities:  Collected data, and conducted research on "Teaching of Ethics in American Graduate Schools of Education."

Research:

"Education for Goodness Sake:  Cognitivist Theories of Ethics and Moral Value Education."  Doctoral Dissertation - Columbia University, NY 1983

"Discovery Learning" - Columbia University, NY 1983

"Teaching of Ethics in American Graduate Schools of Education"  Research Funded by the Hastings Center, NY 1981

Presentations:

"Ways of Knowing:  A Philosophical analysis of knowledge in the disciplines"  Address to the Honors Society at Valencia Community College, 1992

"American Transcendentalism"  Presentation to community college instructors and administrators at conference at Florida State University, 1989

"Re-discovering Discovery Learning"  presentation to Colloquium in the Philosophy of Education - Columbia University, 1982

"A Review of 'The Crisis of Democratic Theory' - A Book by Edward Purcell, Jr." presentation to the History Seminar - Columbia University, 1982

"Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" presentation to Seminar in Higher Education - Columbia University, 1981

"Forms of Non-Cognitivism in Ethics" presentation to Colloquium in the Philosophy of Education, Columbia University, 1980

Professional Memberships:

American Philosophical Association
National Society for the Study of Education
Philosophy of Education Society

Academic Honors:

elected to Kappa Delta Pi
Herbert Lehman Scholarship
Dean's List
Teachers College Scholarships