Joseph Di Bona, Associate Professor
- Education:
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1967
- Contact Info:
- 213D West Duke Bldg
- (919) 660-3075
- jdibona@duke.edu
- Office Hours:
- Tu Th 1-3PM
- Research Interests: Social and International
Current projects: learning vs teaching, changing pedagogy
Pedagogy and world system analysis, ideology and practice in teacher professionalism, Third World education and emphasis on South Asian colonial history and current policy.
- Comments:
Like Diderot in the 18th C. Dr. Di Bona has maintained a profound skepticism concerning the benefits of institutional solutions to daily problems. Instead he seeks to liberate the enormous potential of an individual's inner strength and help students realize their own personal ability. To this extent education becomes a participatory dialogue in which teacher and student disappear as levels of hierarchy and aim at an organic unity.
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- J. Di Bona. Critical Perspectives on Indian Education. New Delhi: Bahri Publications, 1989.
- J. Di Bona. One Teacher, One School. Delhi: Biblia Impex Pvt. Ltd., 1983. 309 pp. pp.
- J. Di Bona. A Is For Ambrosia. Durham: Privately Printed, 1975.
- J. Di Bona. The Context of Education in Indian Development. Durham, Duke University Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia, 1974. pp. vii, 229 pp.
- J. Di Bona. Cahnge and Conflict. Indian Edition Lalvani Publishing House, Bombay, 1972. 236 pp. pp.
- J. Di Bona and Eleanor Harrington-Austin. ""Bringing Multicultrualism to the Historically Black University in the United States"." Education Horizon 71.3 (1993): 50-57.
- J. Di Bona. ""25 Years of change in an Indian University"." Journal of Higher Education 15 (1993): 65-79.