Biographical
Statement (bio-statement.pdf)
Biographical Information C. A. Bowers holds a Ph. D. from the University of California,
has taught at the University of Oregon and Portland State University, and was
granted emeritus status in 1998. Published more than 90 articles, 12 chapters
in other books, and 16 of his own books. These include:
- Cultural Literacy for Freedom (1974)
- The Promise of Theory: Education and the Politics of Cultural Change (1982)
- Elements of a Post-Liberal Theory of Education (1987)
- The Cultural Dimensions of Educational Computing: Understanding the Non-Neutrality
of Technology (1988)
- (with David Flinders) Responsive Teaching: An Ecological Approach to Classroom
Patterns of Language, Culture, and Thought (1990)
- Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis:Toward Deep Changes
(1993)
- Critical Essays on Education, Modernity, and the Recovery of the Ecological
Imperative (1993)
- Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture: Rethinking Moral Education,Creativity,
Intelligence,and Other Modern Orthodoxies (1995)
- The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy
for Reforming Universities and Public Schools (1997)
- Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity,
and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability (2000)
- Educating for Eco-Justice and Community (2001)
- Detras de la Apariencia:
Hacia la descolonizacion de al educacion (2002)
- Mindful Conservatism: Rethinking the Ideological and Educational Basis of
an Ecologically Sustainable Future (2003)
- Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis (2005)
(co-edited with Frederique Apffel-Marglin)
Invited to speak at 31 universities in the United States and 34 universities in other parts of the world - including the University of Trondheim, University of Zagreb, University of Queensland, University of Cape Town, Rhodes University, York University, University of Toronto, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Recently invited to lecture in 5 German cities. Also asked by Vice-President Al Gore to be the featured speaker
at a dinner/seminar (held at the Gore residence) on the influence of metaphorical
thinking on environmental and technology policies.
One of 6 Western scholars, along with the former Chinese Minister of Culture,
invited to speak at the International Congress on Culture and Humanity in the
New Millennium, sponsored by the government of Hong Kong and the Chinese University
of Hong Kong.
Gave the John Dewey Memorial Lecture in 1982
In 1992, received the "Outstanding Environmental Professor Award"
from the Center for Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.
Writings have been translated into Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish.
Let Them Eat Data was the basis of half hour interview with Moira Gunn that
was broadcast on National Public Radio. The book has been translated into Japanese
and now is being translated into Chinese.
Currently Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.
Recently completed book manuscripts:
- Revitalizing the Commons: Cultural and Educational Sites of Resistance and
Affirmation
- False Promises of Constructivist Theories of Learning: A Global and Ecological
Critique
Co-founder of the international online journal The Ecojustice Review: Educating for the Commons