Dr. Jane Blanken Webb

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Associate Professor
EDD Education Doctorate


jane.blankenwebb@wilkes.edu

Jane Blanken-Webb (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014) joined the faculty in the Wilkes University Dr. Richard Abbas Alley 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, cybersecurity, educational research, and dissertation mentoring. Notably, in developing the Cybersecurity for Educational Leaders course, she partnered with cybersecurity experts, for which she was awarded the TREC Interdisciplinary Teaching Award in 2022. This course has also inspired a range of Ed.D. dissertations exploring how cybersecurity intersects with educational practice, leadership, and pedagogy across diverse domains—spanning methods from quantitative analysis to phenomenology and interpretive approaches to qualitative content analysis.

As a philosopher of education, she investigates foundational and ethical dimensions of teaching, learning, and technology—particularly in relation to cybersecurity and AI in educational contexts. Her current and forthcoming publications include ten peer-reviewed 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 Wilkes University, 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).

  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “A Deweyan Foundation for Cultivating Reflective Cyber-Attuned Habits in an Age of AI and Ambiguity,” Journal of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, (forthcoming).
  • Heather Bednarz and Jane Blanken-Webb, “Positioning Cybersecurity as a Pillar of Safety in Occupational Therapy,” Journal of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education 12, no. 1 (2025): 1—6. doi:10.53735/cisse.v12i1.208 
  • Holly Hanna and Jane Blanken-Webb, “Using Complexity Theory to Identify K-12+ Pedagogical Misalignment with a Security Mindset,” Journal of the Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education 9, no. 1 (2022): 1—6. 
  • Devon Almond and Jane Blanken-Webb, “The Transformative Potency of Vulnerabilities in Strengths-Based Approaches to Higher Education,” Academia Letters (2021): Article 2540. https://doi.org/10.20935/AL2540
  • Jane Blanken-Webb and Ryan Cloutier, “Cybersecurity and the Ethics of Care,” Information Security Education Journal 7, no. 2 (2020): 31—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, “A Case Study-based Cybersecurity Ethics Curriculum,” In 2018 PB ({ASE} 18), 2018.
  • Katariina Holma, Tiina Kontinen, and Jane Blanken-Webb, “Growth into Citizenship: Framework for Conceptualizing Learning in NGO Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa,” Adult Education Quarterly 68, no. 3 (2018): 215—234. https://doi.org/10.1177/0741713618768561
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “Big Data’s Call to Philosophers of Education,” Philosophical Inquiry in Education 24, no. 4 (2017): 310—322.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “The Difference Differentiation Makes: Extending Eisner’s Account,” Educational Theory 64, no. 1 (2014): 55—74.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “Expanding the Deweyan Self: Revisiting an Underexplored Past to Inform Future Inquiry,” Philosophical Studies in Education 45 (2014): 88—98.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, Holly Hanna, and Amy Kuiken, “Cyber Education: A Deweyan Foundation for Security Mindset,” in Centennial Handbook on John Dewey’s Human Nature and Conduct, ed. Leonard J. Waks and Andrea R. English (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, in press), 201—215. 
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, Imani Palmer, Sarah-Elizabeth Deshais, Roy H. Campbell, Nicholas C. Burbules, and Masooda Bashir, “Cybersecurity Ethics,” in Foundations of Information Ethics, ed. John Burgess and Emily Knox (Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2019), 91—101. 
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “Metacognition: Cognitive Dimensions of e-Learning,” in e-Learning Ecologies: Principles for New Learning and Assessment, ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis (New York, Routledge, 2017), 163—182. 
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “Collaborative Intelligence: Social Dimensions of e-Learning,” in e-Learning Ecologies: Principles for New Learning and Assessment, ed. Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis (New York, Routledge, 2017), 143—162.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “Dewey and the Self,” In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory (New York: Springer, 2016), 1—5.
  • Chris Higgins, Jane Blanken-Webb, and Adrienne Pickett, “Horace’s Compromise,” in Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishing, 2010), 452—3.
  • Chris Higgins, Adrienne Pickett, and Jane Blanken-Webb, “Coalition of Essential Schools,” In Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishing, 2010), 115—6.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “Improving Equality through Study in the Humanities. A book Review of Education and Equality,” Democracy & Education 25, no. 2 (2017).
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “Teaching in the Art Museum: Interpretation as Experience” (book review), Journal of Aesthetic Education 46, no. 4 (2012): 120—4.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb and Devon Almond, “More Potent than Political Power: Beyond Cognitive Dimensions of Democracy and Education,” in Philosophy of Education 2019, ed. Kurt Stemhagen (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2020) 424—428.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “From Aesthetic Crisis to Consummation in Social Justice Education,” in Philosophy of Education 2016, ed. Natasha Levinson (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2018) 578—581.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “The Pedagogical Subject and Liberal Learning,” in Philosophy of Education 2015, ed. Eduardo Duarte (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2016), 93—95.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “Embracing Materiality,” in Philosophy of Education 2013, ed. Cris Mayo (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2014), 449—451.
  • Jane Blanken-Webb, “Is Impotence the Answer?” in Philosophy of Education 2011, ed. Rob Kunzman (Urbana, Illinois: Philosophy of Education Society, 2011), 257—259.
  • 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—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—9/21/2018. $277,000.