Education
Seamus Mulryan
Seamus Mulryan
Assistant Professor
Dr. Mulryan studied physics at a small liberal arts college much like Ursinus before serving in AmeriCorps for two years as a physics teacher with Teach for America. Over the years, he initiated a successful AP-Physics program in one of the poorest counties the country, developed the physics curriculum for a new public school, and led an after-school program in an urban school. During this time, his attention slowly turned from the big questions about the physical universe to the big questions about education, and these led him to earn his Ph.D. in educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Mulryan’s scholarship draws from the fields of ethics, politics, and hermeneutics to help answer questions regarding how, why, and to what ends individuals undergo an education. His work has been published in Educational Theory, Philosophy of Education, Journal of Aesthetic Education, and Policy Futures in Education.
Department
Degrees
B.S., Beloit College
M.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Teaching
Critical Issues in Education
Educational Theory and Philosophy
Ethics and Moral Education
Educational Psychology
Professional Applications
Student Teacher Supervision
Seminar in Educational Studies
Common Intellectual Experience (CIE)
Research Interests
The ethical and political dimensions of the aims and practices of education.
Recent Work
Selected Works:
Mulryan, Seamus. “Towards Deep Liberation: A Gadamerian Correction to Critical Pedagogy.” In Philosophy of Education 2016, edited by Natasha Levinson, pp. 197-207. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, 2018.
Mulryan, Seamus. “A review of Maxine McClintock, Letters of Recommendation, and Samuel D. Rocha, A Primer for Philosophy and Education.” Educational Theory 66, no. 5 (2016): 657–665.
Mulryan, Seamus and Stephanie Mackler. “The Existential Significance of Cinema in Educational Administration.” Journal of Aesthetic Education 49, no. 2 (Summer 2015): 1-19.
Mulryan, Seamus. “Review of The Case for Character Education: A Developmental Approach by Alan L. Lockwood,” Education Review 15 (2012).
Mackler, Stephanie and Seamus Mulryan. “Educational Administration as a Hermeneutics of Trust.” In Trust and Betrayal in Educational Administration and Leadership, edited by Eugenie Samier and Michèle Schmidt, pp. 77-90. New York, NY: Routledge Press, 2010.
Mulryan, Seamus. “The Courage of Dialogue.” In Philosophy of Education 2009, edited by Deborah Kerdeman, pp. 141-148. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, 2010.
Mulryan, Seamus. “Hegel’s Hold on Conceptions of Human Development.” Policy Futures in Education 6, no. 3 (2008): 312 – 322.