Dr. Jane Blanken Webb

Associate Professor
EDD Education Doctorate


jane.blankenwebb@wilkes.edu

Jane Blanken-Webb (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014) joined the faculty in the 杏吧直播app School of Education in 2018. Since this time, her teaching assignments in the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership program have included courses in ethics, educational research (qualitative emphasis), and dissertation mentoring. Notably, she also partnered with cybersecurity experts to develop and teach a Cybersecurity for Educational Leaders course, for which she was awarded the TREC Interdisciplinary Teaching Award in 2022. As a philosopher of education, she considers foundational issues related to teaching and learning and draws broadly on John Dewey鈥檚 philosophy in her current and forthcoming publications, which include eight peer-reviewed journal articles and four invited book chapters. She has also been awarded multiple grants for her work in cybersecurity education from the Department of Homeland Security (2022) and the National Security Agency (2017-18). Prior to joining 杏吧直播app, she held postdoctoral positions with the University of Eastern Finland and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her previous degrees include Master of Music Education (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and a Bachelor of Music with a minor in Philosophy (Northern Illinois University).

Refereed Articles

  • Holly Hanna and Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淯sing Complexity Theory to Identify K-12+ Pedagogical Misalignment with a Security Mindset,鈥 Journal of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education 9, no. 1 (2022): 1鈥6.
  • Devon Almond and Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淭he Transformative Potency of Vulnerabilities in Strengths-Based Approaches to Higher Education,鈥 Academia Letters (2021): Article 2540. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2540
  • Jane Blanken-Webb and Ryan Cloutier, 鈥淐ybersecurity and the Ethics of Care,鈥 Information Security Education Journal 7, no. 2 (2020): 31鈥39. https://doi.org/10.6025/isej/2020/7/2/31-39
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, Imani Palmer, Sarah-Elizabeth Deshaies, Nicholas C. Burbules, Roy H. Campbell, and Masooda Bashir, 鈥淎 Case Study-based Cybersecurity Ethics Curriculum,鈥 In 2018 {USENIX} Workshop on Advances in Security Education ({ASE} 18), 2018.
  • Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen, and Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淕rowth into Citizenship: Framework for Conceptualizing Learning in NGO Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa,鈥 Adult Education Quarterly 68, no. 3 (2018): 215鈥234. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713618768561
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淏ig Data鈥檚 Call to Philosophers of Education,鈥 Philosophical Inquiry in Education 24, no. 4 (2017): 310鈥322.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淭he Difference Differentiation Makes: Extending Eisner鈥檚 Account,鈥 Educational Theory 64, no. 1 (2014): 55鈥74.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淓xpanding the Deweyan Self: Revisiting an Underexplored Past to Inform Future Inquiry,鈥 Philosophical Studies in Education 45 (2014): 88鈥98.

Invited Book Chapters

  • Jane Blanken-Webb, Holly Hanna, and Amy Kuiken, 鈥淎 Deweyan Foundation for Security Mindset and Cyber Education,鈥 in Centennial Handbook on John Dewey鈥檚 Human Nature and Conduct, ed. Andrea English and Leonard Waks (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, Imani Palmer, Roy H. Campbell, Nicholas C. Burbules, and Masooda Bashir, 鈥淐ybersecurity Ethics,鈥 in Foundations of Information Ethics, ed. John Burgess and Emily Knox (Chicago, Illinois: American Library Association, 2019), 91鈥101.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淢etacognition: Cognitive Dimensions of e-Learning,鈥 in e-Learning Ecologies: Principles for New Learning and Assessment, ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis (New York, Routledge, 2017), 163鈥182.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淐ollaborative Intelligence: Social Dimensions of e-Learning,鈥 in e-Learning Ecologies: Principles for New Learning and Assessment, ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis (New York, Routledge, 2017), 143鈥162.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淒ewey and the Self,鈥 In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory (New York: Springer, 2016), 1鈥5.
  • Chris Higgins, Jane Blanken-Webb, and Adrienne Pickett, 鈥淗orace鈥檚 Compromise,鈥 in Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishing, 2010), 452鈥3.
  • Chris Higgins, Adrienne Pickett, and Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淐oalition of Essential Schools,鈥 In Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishing, 2010), 115鈥6.

Book Reviews

  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淚mproving Equality through Study in the Humanities. A book Review of Education and Equality,鈥 Democracy & Education 25, no. 2 (2017).
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淭eaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience鈥 (book review), Journal of Aesthetic Education 46, no. 4 (2012): 120鈥4.

Invited Responses

  • Jane Blanken-Webb and Devon Almond, 鈥淢ore Potent than Political Power: Beyond Cognitive Dimensions of Democracy and Education,鈥 in Philosophy of Education 2019, ed. Kurt Stemhagen (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2020) 424鈥428.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淔rom Aesthetic Crisis to Consummation in Social Justice Education,鈥 in Philosophy of Education 2016, ed. Natasha Levinson (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2018) 578鈥581.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淭he Pedagogical Subject and Liberal Learning,鈥 in Philosophy of Education 2015, ed. Eduardo Duarte (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2016), 93鈥95.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淓mbracing Materiality,鈥 in Philosophy of Education 2013, ed. Cris Mayo (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2014), 449鈥451.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, 鈥淚s Impotence the Answer?鈥 in Philosophy of Education 2011, ed. Rob Kunzman (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2011), 257鈥259.

National Grants Received

  • PI: Jane Blanken-Webb. Development of a Robust, Nationally Accessible Cybersecurity Risk Management Curriculum for Technical and Managerial Cybersecurity Professionals [Sub-award]. Department of Homeland Security. 3/9/2022鈥9/30/2022. $31,358.00
  • PI: Roy H. Campbell, Co-PIs: Masooda Bashir, Jane Blanken-Webb, & Nicholas C. Burbules. Ethical Thinking in Cyber Space (EThiCS). National Security Agency. 9/22/2017鈥9/21/2018. $277,000.