Jane Roland Martin | |
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| Born | July 20, 1929 |
| Nationality | American |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1987) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | American philosophy, Feminist philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Massachusetts Boston |
Main interests | Feminism, Philosophy of education |
Jane Roland Martin (born July 20, 1929) is an American philosopher known for her work on education. She is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She has published a number of works relating to issues of gender in education.[1][2] In 1987, she received a Guggenheim Award for her work.
She contributed the piece "Climbing the Ivory Walls: Women in Academia" to the 2003 anthology Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, edited by Robin Morgan.[3]
D.G. Mulcahy has published a book length analysis of Martin's work, called Knowledge, Gender, and Schooling: The Feminist Educational Thought of Jane Roland Martin. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 2002. Mulcahy additionally discusses Martin's theory of liberal education in comparison with those of Cardinal Newman and Mortimer Adler in The Educated Person: Toward a New Paradigm for Liberal Education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.
Joy A. Palmer, in turn, included a chapter on Martin's educational thought in her edited volume, Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education. London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 203–209.
