B.A., The Ohio State University; M.E., University of Toledo; Ph.D., University of Toledo
Dissertation: Civic Education in an Age of Ecological Crisis: A Rawlsian Political Liberal Conception
Teaching
Dr. Warnke teaches courses in Educational Foundations, mostly in the graduate programs. He has taught or is currently teaching EDUC 264 Educational Psychology, EDF 601 Psychology of Learning, EDF 607 Research Methods, EDF 620 Teaching and Learning, EDF 621 Legal and Ethical Issues in Education, and EDF 622 Philosophy of Education. He advises students in the Graduate program (MAED).
Scholarship
Dr. Warnke’s research interests include the intersection of political philosophy, educational theory, and social psychology focusing on issues related to civic education, democracy, justice, citizenship, sustainability, inclusion, and cultural responsiveness in schools. For a list of presentations and publications, see below.
Service
Within the Division of Education (DoE), Dr. Warnke chairs the DoE Assessment Committee and is a member of the Graduate Faculty Committee, the Graduate Advisory Council, and co-chairs the Clinical Field Advisory Council. At the university level, he serves on the IRB Committee. He previously served in the Faculty Senate as the representative for the DoE, served on the University Program Assessment Committee (UPAC), the Graduate Council, and the Graduate Curriculum Committee.
He also serves on the Editorial Board of In Factis Pax: Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice while also serving as the journal’s book review editor.
Publications
Warnke, J. (2024). Epistemological considerations in Snauwaert’s “Teaching Peace as a Matter of Justice”. Educational Abundance: Journal of the New York State Foundations of Education Society, Volume 4.
Kumar, R., Seay, N.P. and Warnke, J.H. (2023). Bridging perspectives: The epistemic links between mastery-focused and Culturally Inclusive and Responsive Learning Environments. In T. Urdan and E.N. Gonida (Ed.) Remembering the Life, Work, and Influence of Stuart A. Karabenick (Advances in Motivation and Achievement, Vol. 22), Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 259-272.
Kumar, R., Karabenick, S., Warnke, J., & Hany, S. (April, 2019). Culturally Inclusive and Responsive Curricular Learning Environments (CIRCLEs): An Exploratory Sequential Mixed-Methods Approach. Contemporary Educational Psychology Special Issue.
Kumar, R. Karabenick, S.A., & Warnke, J. (2016). Role of culture and proximal minority/majority status in adolescent identity negotiations. In J. DeCuir-Gunby & P. Schutz (Ed.) Researching Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts.
Kumar, R., Warnke, J., & Karabenick, S. A. (2014). Arab-American male identity negotiations: caught in the crossroads of ethnicity, religion, nationality and current contexts. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, 20 (1), 1-20.
Kumar, R., Seay, N., & Warnke, J. (2012) Risk and resilience in adolescents' transnational school transitions: Academic motivation and psychological well-being. In S.A. Karabenick & T.C. Urdan (ed.) Transitions across schools and cultures: Advances in motivation and achievement, Volume 17, (pp. 147-176). Bingsley, UK: Emerald Publishing Group.
Presentations
Warnke, J. (2024, October 27). Solidarity in Honneth’s critical theory: Implications for sustainable democratic education. Paper presented at Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Niagara, NY.
Warnke, J. (2024, October 27). Reclaiming and sustaining peace and justice: Considering solidarity from moral and philosophical perspectives (Panel Chair). Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Niagara, NY.
Warnke, J. (2024, April 5). Epistemological considerations in Snauwaert’s “Teaching Peace as a Matter of Justice: Toward a Pedagogy of Moral Reasoning”. Annual Conference of the New York Social Foundations Society
Warnke, J. (2023, May 20). The epistemic aims of peace education. The Origins of PEC and a Shift to an Intersubjective Peace Education Paradigm (Panel). Annual conference of the International Peace Research Association, Trinidad & Tobago.
Warnke, J. (2023, May 18). Education in the Anthropocene: A Rawlsian political liberal conception. Generating an Ecological Peace Paradigm (Panel). Annual conference of the International Peace Research Association, Trinidad & Tobago.
Kumar, R. & Warnke, J. (2023, April 16). Empirical and ideological links between mastery-focused and culturally inclusive and responsive learning environments. The Intersection and Integration of Motivation and Multicultural Theories in Education Research (Symposium). Annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.
Warnke, J. (2022, October 15). Justice and love: The call of the other in Paulo Freire’s philosophy. Justice Is What Love Looks Like in Public: Responding to the Call of the Other as Peace Activism (Panel). Annual conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Alliance, OH.
Warnke, J. (2021, October 10). A pedagogy of reclaimative justice: The educational implications of democratizing justice. Reclaimative Post Conflict Justice: Democratizing Justice in the World Tribunal on Iraq (Panel). Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Milwaukee, WI.
Warnke, J. (2020, November 14). Demagogic propaganda and the limits of toleration: Challenges to sustaining liberal democracy from the inside. Polarization in Liberal Democratic Societies: Ideology, Mechanisms, and Alternative Forms of Resistance (Panel). Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Virtual Conference.
Warnke, J. (2019). An exploratory sequential mixed-methods approach: The CIRCLEs Project. Symposium presentation at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto, Canada
Warnke, J. (2019). Defining the political in contested times: The translation of comprehensive reasons to public reasons as a political discursive practice of conciliation. Panel at the 5th Annual John D. Stratton Conference on Nonviolence and Peace, Ashland University
Warnke, J. (2018). Rethinking power and democracy in destructive times. Panel at the Annual Conference of Peace and Justice Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Warnke, J. (2017). Structural injustice and legal systems: Bridging, repairing, reimagining the infrastructures. Panel at the Annual Conference of Peace and Justice Studies Association, Birmingham, AL
Warnke, J. (2017). Exploring the intersubjective, democratic paradigm of justice and justice-based peace building. Panel at the Annual Conference of Peace and Justice Studies Association, Birmingham, AL
Warnke, J. & Kumar, R. (2016). Arab American adolescents' identity negotiations and academic and psychological well-being: Theoretical, methodological, and phenomenological considerations. Presented at the American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2016, Washington, D.C.
Warnke, J. (2015). Schools as sites of intercultural contact. Annual Meeting of the International Institute on Peace Education. Toledo, OH.
Kumar, R. & Warnke, J. (2014). Inclusive and exclusive definitions of the American identity: The role of Arab-American adolescents’ perceptions of discrimination and majority-minority status in school contexts. Co-presented at the 22nd International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, Reims, France.
Warnke, J. & Kumar, R. (2014). Differential perceptions of American identity: Ethnically diverse adolescents' identity explorations and psychological well-being. Presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX.
Warnke, J. & Kumar, R. (2013). Finding voices in contested spaces: Arab American adolescent perspectives on culturally responsive schooling. Co-presented American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Martin, R. & Warnke, J. (2012). Talking back: Using critical action research to resist, intervene, and transform institutionalized racism. Co-presented at National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Kumar, R. & Warnke, J. (2011). The symbolic self: The special case of Arab American adolescents’ social identity. Co-presented Sixth Biennial International Conference: The Centrality of Self Theory and Research for Enabling Human Potential, Quebec City, Canada.
Martin, R. & Warnke, J. (2011). Catalyst for change: Critical action research, passion, and pedagogical promise. Co-presented at the Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.
Martin, R. & Warnke, J. (2011). Teaching to transform: Igniting a passion for social justice. Co-presented at the Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Orlando, FL.
Seay, N. & Warnke, J. (2011). Developing a multicultural research team to conduct cross-cultural research. Co-presented at the Graduate Research Symposium, The University of Toledo.
Warnke, J. & Kumar, R. (2010). The role of proximal and distal contexts in shaping Arab American male adolescents’ cultural identity. Co-presented at the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues: APA-Div 45, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
Martin, R., Warnke, J., Knegthes, C. (2010). Applying interactive technology: Assessment of students’ attitudes about issues of social justice. Co-presented at the National Association for Multicultural Education’s Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
Martin, R., Warnke,J. & Docis, D. (2010). An inclusive vision: A critical multicultural approach to issues of gender in graduate teacher education. Co-presented at the Association of Teacher Educators Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.
Warnke, J. (2010). A Culture of violence, the violence of culture: Video games and the socialization of violence and gender. Graduate Research Symposium, University of Toledo.
Martin, R., Warnke, J., Knegthes, C. & Doriswaimy, N. (2009). Paradigms for gender justice: Applying feminist theory to critical action research. Co-presented at the National Association for Multicultural Education’s Annual Conference, Denver, CO.
Warnke, J. & Naserdeen, D. (2009). GIS and spatial analysis in the sociology of education. Presented at the American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Conference, Pittsburg, PA.
Kumar, R., Seay, N. & Warnke, J. (2008). Why are you talking like a White girl? A comparative study of the effects of Xenophobic reactions in middle school settings. Co-presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Studies Association, Atlanta, GA.
Docis, D. & Warnke, J. (2008). Creating solutions: employing critical pedagogy to interrogate issues of sexual harassment and bullying in schools. Co-presented at The Research on Women and Education Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.
