Professor of Education, Chair of Education Department
Professor Santoro is a philosopher of education who conducts empirical research to study and theorize about the moral and ethical sources of teacher dissatisfaction and resistance. She is a teacher educator for pre-service and experienced practitioners, and examines how norms and values are communicated in professional communities. Professor Santoro is a Senior Associate Editor for the American Journal of Education.
Santoro, D. A. & Cain, L., eds. (2018). Principled Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas. Harvard Education Press.
Santoro, D. A. (2018). Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay. Harvard Education Press.
Santoro, D. A. & Wilson, T. S., eds. (2015). Philosophical Enquiry through Empirical Research. Studies in Philosophy and Education 34, no. 2.
Santoro, D. A. (2018). Is it Burnout? Or Demoralization? Educational Leadership 75, no. 9 (pp. 10-15).
Santoro, D. A. (2018). Demoralized Teachers and What Local Leaders Might Do. School Administrator 75, no. 5 (pp. 14-15).
Santoro, D. A. (2017). Teachers as Conscientious Objectors. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Ed. George Noblit. New York: Oxford University Press. http://education.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acre...
Santoro, D. A. (2017). Teachers’ Expressions of Craft Conscience: Upholding the Integrity of a Profession. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice 23, no. 6 (pp. 750-761).
Santoro, D. A. (2016). “Something funny” about Conserving Humanity and Teaching: Lessons from the Blues. Philosophy of Education 2015, E. Duarte, ed., pp. 135-138. http://ojs.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/pes/article/vi...
Santoro, D. A. (2015). Philosophizing About Teacher Dissatisfaction: A Multidisciplinary Hermeneutic Approach. Studies in Philosophy and Education 34, no. 2 (pp. 171-180).
Wilson, T. S. & Santoro, D. A. (2015). Philosophy Pursued through Empirical Research: Introduction to the Special Issue. Studies in Philosophy and Education 34, no. 2 (pp. 115-124).
Santoro, D. A. (2013). “I Was Becoming Increasingly Uneasy about the Profession and What Was Being Asked of Me”: Preserving Integrity in Teaching. Curriculum Inquiry, 43, no. 5 (pp. 563-587).
Santoro, D. A. (2011). Good Teaching in Difficult Times: Demoralization in the Pursuit of Good Work. American Journal of Education 188, no. 1 (pp. 1-23).
Santoro, D. A. with Morehouse, L. (2011). Teaching’s Conscientious Objectors: Principled Leavers of High-Poverty Schools. Teachers College Record 113, no. 12 (pp. 2671-2705).
Dorn, C. & Santoro, D. A. (2011). Political Goals and Social Ideals: Dewey, Democracy, and the Emergence of the Turkish Republic. Education and Culture 27, no. 2 (pp. 3-27).
Santoro, D. (2010). Teaching to Save the World: Avoiding Circles of Certainty in Social Justice Pedagogy. Philosophy of Education 2009, D. Kerdeman, ed. Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society (pp. 241-249).
Santoro, D. A. & Cain, L. (2018). Introduction. Principles of Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Cain, L. & Santoro, D. A. (2018). Conclusion. Principles of Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Hochman, J. & Santoro, D. A. (2018). Tweeting to Transgress: Teachers on Twitter as Principled Resistors. Principles of Resistance: How Teachers Resolve Ethical Dilemmas. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Santoro, D. A. (2017). Method: Intelligent Engagement with Subject Matter. The Centennial Handbook of Democracy and Education, L. Waks & A. English, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Santoro, D. A. (2016). Protect Teacher Integrity. Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries, M. Levinson & J. Fay, eds. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. (pp. 137-142).
Santoro, D. A. & Dorn, C. (2012). “A Vital, Free, Independent and Lay Republic”: John Dewey and the Role of Education in Establishing the Turkish State. Teaching America to the World: Education and Foreign Relations since 1870, R. Garlitz & L. Jarvinen, eds., New York: Palgrave Macmillan (pp. 93-110).
Santoro, D. A. (2018). Review of “Is Public Schooling a Public Good? An Analysis of Schooling Externalities.” (The Cato Institute, May 2018). National Education Policy Center. https://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-publ...
Santoro, D. A. (2017). Review of “Tackling Gaps in Access to Strong Teachers: What State Leaders Can Do.” (The Education Trust, October 2017). National Education Policy Center. http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-reten...
Santoro, D. A. (2016). Review of Michelle S. Moses, Living with Moral Disagreement: The Enduring Controversy about Affirmative Action. Education Review. http://edrev.asu.edu/index.php/ER/article/view/...
Santoro, D. A. (2016). Review of Claudia W. Ruitenberg, Unlocking the World: Education in an Ethic of Hospitality. Studies in Philosophy and Education. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11217...
Santoro, D. A. (2015). Review of Geraldine J. Clifford, Those Good Gertrudes: A Social History of Women Teachers in America. Teachers College Record. http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 17950.
Santoro, D. A. & Rocha, S. D. (2015). The Beautiful Risk of Teaching: Review of Gert Biesta, The Beautiful Risk of Education. Studies in Philosophy and Education 34, no. 4 (pp. 413–418).
Santoro, D. A. (2011). Review of Sharon Todd, Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism. Studies in Philosophy and Education 30, no. 3 (pp. 303-310).
