Brian W. Dotts

Brian W. Dotts is a Professor at the University of Georgia in Athens. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Social Foundations of Education, specifically the history of American education, philosophy of education, and the politics of federal education policies, school privatization, and multiculturalism. He has published peer-reviewed papers in the history of American Education, specifically focusing on education and political theories during the American Revolution and early national period, common school politics during the Antebellum Era, John Dewey and Social Reconstructionism during the early twentieth century, and Educational Foundations as an academic field.

Dotts' third book, winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Society of Professors of Education, focuses on the philosophy and history of American Education. Philosophers and theorists included in the first half of the book: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Marx and Engels, John Dewey, Jane Addams, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Paulo Freire. The second half of the book covers the history of American education with chapters focusing on the following eras: Colonial, Revolutionary, Antebellum, Post-Civil War, Progressive, Post-WWII, the 1980s and beyond, and a final chapter explaining the current privatization movement.