Kathy Hytten
Biographic Data
| ID | 4605825 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathy Hytten |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Hytten |
| SIGNATURE | HYTTEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3092-8451 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ethics, AI, and Irresistible Temptations
In this essay, I explore the ethical complexities of using generative AI in academic writing. Drawing on personal experience, I reflect on the shifting terrain of scholarly labor, authorship, originality, and transparency in a moment when AI can produce fluent—and even eloquent—academic prose. Rather than offering prescriptions, or strategies to resolve the ethical tensions, I reflect on the moral ambiguity of AI‐assisted scholarship, the inadequ…
Collaboration and its Dark Sides
If not me, who: An interview with Kathy Hytten
The voice of artificial intelligence: Philosophical and educational reflections
Liz JacksonToday lively debates are unfolding about artificial intelligence (Jackson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024; Sidorkin, 2024). Despite these debates, the topic remains undertheorized (Gourlay, 2
Abolishing, Renarrativizing, and Revaluing: Dismantling Antiblack Racism in Education
In this article, we argue for the value of theorizing antiblackness to educational justice efforts, particularly those aimed at ensuring Black students succeed and thrive in schools. We first define antiblackness and describe how a frame of antiblackness can help to illuminate ongoing dehumanization and violence done to Black people in schools and society. We explain how antiblackness manifests in education before describing the potential of thre…
Democratic Theory's Evasion of Race
In this essay, Kathy Hytten and Kurt Stemhagen explore the evasion of race, particularly implicit whiteness, in democratic theory. The authors maintain that democratic theorists, especially those who write about education, avoid discussions of race, often writing in universal terms about democracy while ignoring the ways that ostensibly democratic societies reproduce white supremacy. Hytten and Stemhagen begin by describing critiques of the white…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Future of philosophy of education
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role may ‘enquiry’ play? Is the future of education and philosophy embracing—or at least taking seriously—a…
Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics
Philosophy of education in a new key: Snapshot 2020 from the United States and Canada
This article shares reflections from members of the community of philosophers of education in the United States and Canada who were invited to express their insights in response to the theme ‘Snaps
When STEM and STEAM Really mean ABC: A Democratic Critique of “Anything but Civics” Schools
In this article, we discuss the rise of what we call ABC schools: Anything but Civics. These are STEM/STEAM schools and programs that orient their focus around teaching science, technology, engineering, and math subjects (sometimes adding the arts). We trouble the tendency toward individualistic and narrowly economic orientations in these programs and discuss strategies for reinfusing a democratic mission and vision into education (both within an…
On Building Islands of Decency
In this article, I argue that at its best, work in the foundations of education is about building islands of decency, borrowing from a metaphor originally used by Myles Horton. Horton suggests that in times of crisis and despair, we can work our way out of pessimism by surrounding ourselves with people who share some of our goals for a better world and working with them to create pockets of decency that are contagious. I begin by describing some …
Globalization, Democracy, and Social Movements: The educational potential of activism
In this essay, I explore the contemporary value of John Dewey’s conception of democracy to addressing the challenges of neoliberal globalization. I begin by describing his vision of democracy as a way of life that requires habits of experimentalism, pluralism, and hope. I then suggest that contemporary forms of mobilization, resistance, and insurgency—specifically, alter globalization activism, the Occupy Movement, and the Forward Together Moral …
Critical Race Feminism and the Complex Challenges of Educational Reform
Community Building in Social Justice Work: A Critical Approach
In this article we argue for the importance of building critical communities as an integral, yet neglected, aspect of education for social justice. We begin by defining critical communities and by describing goals and vision for social justice education. We then explore how community is discussed in the education literature, limitations and challenges of calling for community, and images of critical communities in social justice work. We end by e…
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy. By Barbara Applebaum
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. Pp. v+221,Hb. $75. The central argument that Barbara Applebaum makes in her new book, Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy is that traditional notions of moral responsibility are not only insufficient in our efforts to disrupt white supremacy, they may actually contribute to the reproduction of racism. In contrast, she argues for a model of responsibi…
Aesa 2009 Presidential Address Cultivating Hope and Building Community: Reflections on Social Justice Activism in Educational Studies
Reflecting on Revolution
Reflecting on Social Foundations
This essay is a review of Dan W. Butin's edited collection Teaching Social Foundations of Education: Context, Theories, and Issues. I explore how this book helps us to think about the field of social foundations: what it is we do, why, and the challenges we face. I also look at the themes that cut across all ten essays in the collection, including engaging diversity, demonstrating democracy, and reflecting on social foundations as a field
Engaging whiteness: How racial power gets reified in education
The central question addressed in this essay is how students engage in a class that focuses on the political and social power of whiteness. Specifically, it looks at how whiteness gets inscribed and reified in our education practices, even as we try to disrupt its normative influence. The essay is based upon an in-depth qualitative study of a graduate seminar dedicated to addressing diversity issues critically. We conclude that despite students' …
The Ethics of Cultural Studies (Book)
Engaging whiteness: How racial power gets reified in education
The central question addressed in this essay is how students engage in a class that focuses on the political and social power of whiteness. Specifically, it looks at how whiteness gets inscribed and reified in our education practices, even as we try to disrupt its normative influence. The essay is based upon an in-depth qualitative study of a graduate seminar dedicated to addressing diversity issues critically. We conclude that despite students' …
Philosophy of education in a new key: Future of philosophy of education
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role may ‘enquiry’ play? Is the future of education and philosophy embracing—or at least taking seriously—a…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Snapshot 2020 from the United States and Canada
This article shares reflections from members of the community of philosophers of education in the United States and Canada who were invited to express their insights in response to the theme ‘Snaps
Critical Race Feminism and the Complex Challenges of Educational Reform
Community Building in Social Justice Work: A Critical Approach
In this article we argue for the importance of building critical communities as an integral, yet neglected, aspect of education for social justice. We begin by defining critical communities and by describing goals and vision for social justice education. We then explore how community is discussed in the education literature, limitations and challenges of calling for community, and images of critical communities in social justice work. We end by e…
Aesa 2009 Presidential Address Cultivating Hope and Building Community: Reflections on Social Justice Activism in Educational Studies
Abolishing, Renarrativizing, and Revaluing: Dismantling Antiblack Racism in Education
In this article, we argue for the value of theorizing antiblackness to educational justice efforts, particularly those aimed at ensuring Black students succeed and thrive in schools. We first define antiblackness and describe how a frame of antiblackness can help to illuminate ongoing dehumanization and violence done to Black people in schools and society. We explain how antiblackness manifests in education before describing the potential of thre…
When STEM and STEAM Really mean ABC: A Democratic Critique of “Anything but Civics” Schools
In this article, we discuss the rise of what we call ABC schools: Anything but Civics. These are STEM/STEAM schools and programs that orient their focus around teaching science, technology, engineering, and math subjects (sometimes adding the arts). We trouble the tendency toward individualistic and narrowly economic orientations in these programs and discuss strategies for reinfusing a democratic mission and vision into education (both within an…
Globalization, Democracy, and Social Movements: The educational potential of activism
In this essay, I explore the contemporary value of John Dewey’s conception of democracy to addressing the challenges of neoliberal globalization. I begin by describing his vision of democracy as a way of life that requires habits of experimentalism, pluralism, and hope. I then suggest that contemporary forms of mobilization, resistance, and insurgency—specifically, alter globalization activism, the Occupy Movement, and the Forward Together Moral …
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy. By Barbara Applebaum
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. Pp. v+221,Hb. $75. The central argument that Barbara Applebaum makes in her new book, Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy is that traditional notions of moral responsibility are not only insufficient in our efforts to disrupt white supremacy, they may actually contribute to the reproduction of racism. In contrast, she argues for a model of responsibi…
The voice of artificial intelligence: Philosophical and educational reflections
Liz JacksonToday lively debates are unfolding about artificial intelligence (Jackson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024; Sidorkin, 2024). Despite these debates, the topic remains undertheorized (Gourlay, 2
On Building Islands of Decency
In this article, I argue that at its best, work in the foundations of education is about building islands of decency, borrowing from a metaphor originally used by Myles Horton. Horton suggests that in times of crisis and despair, we can work our way out of pessimism by surrounding ourselves with people who share some of our goals for a better world and working with them to create pockets of decency that are contagious. I begin by describing some …
The Ethics of Cultural Studies (Book)
The Ethics of Cultural Studies (Book)
Engaging whiteness: How racial power gets reified in education
The central question addressed in this essay is how students engage in a class that focuses on the political and social power of whiteness. Specifically, it looks at how whiteness gets inscribed and reified in our education practices, even as we try to disrupt its normative influence. The essay is based upon an in-depth qualitative study of a graduate seminar dedicated to addressing diversity issues critically. We conclude that despite students' …
Reflecting on Social Foundations
This essay is a review of Dan W. Butin's edited collection Teaching Social Foundations of Education: Context, Theories, and Issues. I explore how this book helps us to think about the field of social foundations: what it is we do, why, and the challenges we face. I also look at the themes that cut across all ten essays in the collection, including engaging diversity, demonstrating democracy, and reflecting on social foundations as a field
Reflecting on Revolution
Aesa 2009 Presidential Address Cultivating Hope and Building Community: Reflections on Social Justice Activism in Educational Studies
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy. By Barbara Applebaum
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. Pp. v+221,Hb. $75. The central argument that Barbara Applebaum makes in her new book, Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy is that traditional notions of moral responsibility are not only insufficient in our efforts to disrupt white supremacy, they may actually contribute to the reproduction of racism. In contrast, she argues for a model of responsibi…
Community Building in Social Justice Work: A Critical Approach
In this article we argue for the importance of building critical communities as an integral, yet neglected, aspect of education for social justice. We begin by defining critical communities and by describing goals and vision for social justice education. We then explore how community is discussed in the education literature, limitations and challenges of calling for community, and images of critical communities in social justice work. We end by e…
Critical Race Feminism and the Complex Challenges of Educational Reform
Globalization, Democracy, and Social Movements: The educational potential of activism
In this essay, I explore the contemporary value of John Dewey’s conception of democracy to addressing the challenges of neoliberal globalization. I begin by describing his vision of democracy as a way of life that requires habits of experimentalism, pluralism, and hope. I then suggest that contemporary forms of mobilization, resistance, and insurgency—specifically, alter globalization activism, the Occupy Movement, and the Forward Together Moral …
On Building Islands of Decency
In this article, I argue that at its best, work in the foundations of education is about building islands of decency, borrowing from a metaphor originally used by Myles Horton. Horton suggests that in times of crisis and despair, we can work our way out of pessimism by surrounding ourselves with people who share some of our goals for a better world and working with them to create pockets of decency that are contagious. I begin by describing some …
When STEM and STEAM Really mean ABC: A Democratic Critique of “Anything but Civics” Schools
In this article, we discuss the rise of what we call ABC schools: Anything but Civics. These are STEM/STEAM schools and programs that orient their focus around teaching science, technology, engineering, and math subjects (sometimes adding the arts). We trouble the tendency toward individualistic and narrowly economic orientations in these programs and discuss strategies for reinfusing a democratic mission and vision into education (both within an…
Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics
Philosophy of education in a new key: Snapshot 2020 from the United States and Canada
This article shares reflections from members of the community of philosophers of education in the United States and Canada who were invited to express their insights in response to the theme ‘Snaps
Democratic Theory's Evasion of Race
In this essay, Kathy Hytten and Kurt Stemhagen explore the evasion of race, particularly implicit whiteness, in democratic theory. The authors maintain that democratic theorists, especially those who write about education, avoid discussions of race, often writing in universal terms about democracy while ignoring the ways that ostensibly democratic societies reproduce white supremacy. Hytten and Stemhagen begin by describing critiques of the white…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Future of philosophy of education
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role may ‘enquiry’ play? Is the future of education and philosophy embracing—or at least taking seriously—a…
Abolishing, Renarrativizing, and Revaluing: Dismantling Antiblack Racism in Education
In this article, we argue for the value of theorizing antiblackness to educational justice efforts, particularly those aimed at ensuring Black students succeed and thrive in schools. We first define antiblackness and describe how a frame of antiblackness can help to illuminate ongoing dehumanization and violence done to Black people in schools and society. We explain how antiblackness manifests in education before describing the potential of thre…
If not me, who: An interview with Kathy Hytten
The voice of artificial intelligence: Philosophical and educational reflections
Liz JacksonToday lively debates are unfolding about artificial intelligence (Jackson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024; Sidorkin, 2024). Despite these debates, the topic remains undertheorized (Gourlay, 2
Ethics, AI, and Irresistible Temptations
In this essay, I explore the ethical complexities of using generative AI in academic writing. Drawing on personal experience, I reflect on the shifting terrain of scholarly labor, authorship, originality, and transparency in a moment when AI can produce fluent—and even eloquent—academic prose. Rather than offering prescriptions, or strategies to resolve the ethical tensions, I reflect on the moral ambiguity of AI‐assisted scholarship, the inadequ…
Collaboration and its Dark Sides
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social science (7 works)