Dr. Erskine Dottin

Erskine S. Dottin received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of West Florida, and his doctorate from Miami University of Ohio, and is currently a member of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

He won a Fulbright Scholarship in 1988, and served as a Senior Lecturer in social foundations of education at Rivers State University of Science and Technology in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. He won another Fulbright Scholarship in 1992 to serve in Uganda, but declined in order to take a position at Florida International University.

He is a past president of both the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society, and the Council for Social Foundations of Education (formerly the Council of Learned Societies in Education) and served as its representative on the Unit Accreditation Board of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. He was instrumental in the NCATE Standards Committee’s work on the conceptual framework, and the NCATE performance standards. He is also a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honor Society.

His research interests are in the areas of humanistic education, the use of case methods and dispositions in teacher education.

His articles have appeared Teaching and Teacher Education, the Journal of Educational Opportunity, Educational Studies Journal, the Journal of Student-Centered Learning, Teacher Education Quarterly, the Journal of Humanistic Education, Educational Foundations, College Student Journal, the Florida Journal of Teacher Education, Holistic Education Review, and the Florida Association of Teacher Educators E-Journal.

He is the author of Developing a Conceptual Framework: The Stimulation for Coherence and Continuous Improvement in Teacher Education and Creating a Professional Community Through Means-Ends Connections to Facilitate the Acquisition of Moral Dispositions: Developing, Living, and Evaluating a Conceptual Framework in Teacher Education, and Professional Judgment and Dispositions in Teacher Education (forthcoming this fall)..

He has edited The Forum, and co-authored Thinking About Education: Philosophical Issues and Perspectives; Teaching as Enhancing Human Effectiveness and Enhancing Effective Thinking and Problem Solving in Teacher Education Candidates and In-Service Professional Educators; and Bringing Out the Best in Human Effectiveness: Lessons for Educators from an Upward Bound Project.