Barbara Applebaum is trained in philosophy of education. Professor Applebaum's scholarly interests are currently focused on the point where ethics, education, and commitments to diversity converge. Her research is heavily informed by feminist ethics, feminist philosophy, and critical race theory. Applebaum's published papers have appeared in such journals as Educational Theory, Philosophy of Education, Educational Foundations, and the Journal of Moral Education. Applebaum is currently examining the theories of self and agency that are necessary to ground and sustain educational initiatives committed to social justice. She has a special interest in teachers' self-reflections on their own teaching process and has written articles on caring, building trust in the classroom, and what teacher authority can mean for a feminist pedagogue.
My current scholarship focuses on three related areas: teaching critical whiteness studies, how white teachers committed to social justice negotiate their whiteness, and what can be gleaned about the conditions of just dialogue from the scholarship around epistemic injustice.
CFE 710: Critical Whiteness Studies and Education
CFE 700: Epistemic Injustice in/and Education