Avant-nostalgia

John Baldacchino is the author of «Post-Marxist Marxism: Questioning the Answer» (1996), «Easels of Utopia: Art's Fact Returned»(1998), «Avant-Nostalgia: An Excuse to pause» (2002), «Education Beyond Education: Self and the Imaginary in Maxine Greene's Philosophy» (2008), «Makings of the Sea: Journey, Doubt and Nostalgia» (2010) and «Art's Way Out: Exit Pedagogy and the Cultural Condition» (2012), «John Dewey: Liberty and the Pedagogy of Disposition» (2013), «Mediterranean Art and Education» (2013, with Raphael Vella) and «Democracy without Confession» (2013, with Kenneth Wain). He has just completed a co-edited book on the philosophy of Kenneth Wain, to be published by the end of 2013. John Baldacchino is Chair of Arts Education at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He served as Associate Dean and Professor at Falmouth University, England; as Associate Professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, New York; as Reader (Associate Prof.) in Critical Theory at Gray's School of Art, The Robert Gordon University in Scotland and as Lecturer (Assistant Prof.) of Art Education and Cultural Theory at the University of Warwick in England.