Dini Metro-Roland

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. 

Teaching (Selected)

Graduate Courses

• Human Flourishing and Education 
• Human Nature and Diversity 
• Classroom Pedagogy: The Art and Science of Teaching 
• Sociological & Philosophical Foundations of Education 
• Culture and Politics of Educational Institutions 
• Class, Ethnicity and Gender 
• Multicultural Education 
• Curriculum Theory 

Undergraduate Courses

• Human Flourishing and the Pursuit of Happiness
• K-8 Teaching as a Profession
• Introduction to American Education
• School and Society
• Social Studies Methods/Multicultural Education

Research (Selected)

Recent Grants

• National Endowment for the Humanities Access Grant, 2017-2022. For Humanities for Everybody Bridge Year Program Development ($100,000 + $100,000 matching funds) 
• National Endowment for the Humanities Enduring Questions Grant, 2013-2016 For “What is Human Flourishing?” Course Development ($21, 365 + $18,625 WMU Cost Share).

Recent Publications

• Fraser-Burgess, Sheron, Jessica Heyback, and D. Metro-Roland, Eds. (Forthcoming) The Cambridge Handbook of Ethics and Education. Cambridge University Press.  
• Metro-Roland, D. (Forthcoming). “Review of Kevin Gary’s: Why Boredom Matters: Education, Leisure and the Quest for a Meaningful Life.” in Educational Theory  
• Metro-Roland, D. (2023). “Review of Doug Yacek’s The Transformative Classroom: Philosophical Foundations & Practical Applications.” Educational Theory  
• Farber, P. and D. Metro-Roland (2022) “Moral Education and Technology” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education. New York: Oxford University Press. 
• Farber, P. & Dini Metro-Roland (2021). “Moral Education and Technology.” In Kathy Hytten (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Education. New York: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.24 
• Metro-Roland, D. (2020) “Same over time? An Historical Context” in Barbara Dennis, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educational. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.  
• Paul Farber & D. Metro-Roland. (2020) Why Teaching Matters: A Philosophical Guide to the Elements of Practice. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press. 
• Metro-Roland, D. (2018). The Academic Pharmakon: In Defense of a Liberal Education. Philosophical Studies in Education. 49, 17-23.