Dini Metro-Roland

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Dini Metro-Roland
Center Affiliate and Professor, Educational Foundations
Office: 
(269)387-3510
Location: 
4121 Sangren Hall, Mail Stop 5276
Mailing address: 
Department of Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies
Western Michigan University
1903 W Michigan Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5276 USA
Education: 
  • Ph.D., Indiana University
  • M.A., Indiana University
  • B.A., Loyola-Marymount University
Bio: 

Dini Metro-Roland is Professor of Educational Foundations at Western Michigan University. He is coordinator of graduate programs in the Teaching, Learning and Educational Studies department, and course director of Humanities for Everybody, a program that provides free humanities courses to members of the Kalamazoo community. Dini’s scholarly interests explore themes of multicultural education, philosophical hermeneutics, virtue ethics, and the moral and pedagogical implications of online instruction. Recent publications include: Why Teaching Matters: A Philosophical Guide to the Elements of Practice (Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2020) co-authored with Paul Farber; “Moral Education and Technology” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education (2022) also co-authored with Paul Farber. He is also co-editor, with Sheron Fraser-Burgess and Jessica Heyback of The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education which will be available to the public in 2024.