John Baldacchino

John Baldacchino is Professor of Art and Education in the Department of Art of the School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison where between 2016 and 2019 was Executive Director of the Division of the Arts. Before he was Chair of Arts Education at the University of Dundee, Scotland; served as Associate Dean and Professor at Falmouth University, England; as Associate Professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, New York; as Reader (Associate Prof.) in Critical Theory at Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University in Scotland and as Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) of Art Education and Cultural Theory at the University of Warwick in England.

John Baldacchino is the author of «Post-Marxist Marxism: Questioning the Answer» (1996, republished 2018), «Easels of Utopia: Art's Fact Returned»(1998, republished 2018), «Avant-Nostalgia: An Excuse to pause» (2002), «Education Beyond Education: Self and the Imaginary in Maxine Greene's Philosophy» (2008), «Makings of the Sea: Journey, Doubt and Nostalgia» (2010) and «Art's Way Out: Exit Pedagogy and the Cultural Condition» (2012), «Mediterranean Art and Education» (2013, with Raphael Vella); «Democracy without Confession» (2013, with Kenneth Wain); «John Dewey: Liberty and the Pedagogy of Disposition» (2013), «Kenneth Wain: My Teachings and My Philosophy» (with Galea and Mercieca, 2014); «Art as Unlearning» (2018); «Histories and Philosopies», Volume 1 of the International Encyclopedia of Art & Design Education (2019); «Sejjieħ Il-Ħsieb: Limitu u Ħelsien» (2020); and «Educing Ivan Illich: reform, Contingency and Disestablishment» (2020).