ELPS Faculty
Nicholas Appleton Professor Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Email: appleton@asu.edu Office: Farmer 409 Phone: 480.727.6433

Education Background

• Bachelors Degree: Sociology Institution: San Francisco State University
• Masters Degree: Social and Philosophical Foundations Institution: California State University, Northridge
• Doctoral Degree: Philosophy of Education Institution: University of Massachusetts

Positions in Education

• Classroom teacher (Los Angeles, CA)
• Post Doctoral Scholar, Stanford University

Current Teaching & Research

• Cultural Pluralism
• Teachers and the Law
• Teacher Education

Representative Publications

• Cultural Pluralism in Education, Langman, 1983
• Inner City School Reform, Philosophy of Education, 1994
• In Support of a Two-Tier Pluralism, Educational Theory, 1986
• Curriculum and the Public Schools, with Blumenfeld-Jones, Barone and Arias, in Making The Grade, R.T. Stout, Arizona Town Hall, 1995

Awards, Offices, Honors

• Past President, Far West Philosophy of Education Society
• Past President, California Association for Philosophy of Education