Leonard J. Waks

Leonard J. Waks is Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at Temple University, USA and Distinguished Professor of Educational Studies at Hangzhou Normal University. Dr. Waks attended the University of Wisconsin (B.A philosophy, 1964; Ph. D. philosophy 1968) and taught philosophy at Purdue University and Stanford University. He taught educational studies at Temple University and earned an Ed.D. in Organizational Psychology from Temple in 1984. He is the author of Education 2.0: The Learningweb Revolution and the Transformation of the School (Paradigm, 2013), and The Evolution and Evaluation of Massive Open Online Courses: MOOCs in Motion (Palgrave, 2016), as well as numerous scholarly articles and book chapters. He is a past president of the John Dewey Society, and has been awarded the Dewey Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is founding editor of the journal Dewey Studies. Dr. Waks is editor of the book Listening to Teach: Beyond Didactic Pedagogy (SUNY, 2015), and (with Andrea English) John Dewey's Democracy and Education: A Centennial Handbook (Cambridge University Press, 2017). He is currently editing (with Andrea English) John Dewey’s Human Nature and Conduct: A Centennial Handbook, (Cambridge University Press, scheduled for publication in 2025). He is also working on a centennial edition of Dewey’s 1923 lectures at Bridgewater Massachusetts Normal School, with the working title “The Classroom Teacher and the Individual Child”.