Music, Theatre and Dance Department Faculty

Allan DiBiase is a collaborative pianist at Plymouth State University. Dr. DiBiase holds a BS in Music Education from Wagner College in New York City and Masters and Doctor of Education degrees in the Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education from Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey. His dissertation and academic specialization concern the philosophy of John Dewey particularly in education and aesthetics. He has published diversely; articles ranging from the educational philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson to descriptive analysis about teaching philosophy online.

Dr. DiBiase was Director of Student Activities/College Life and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy for twenty five years at the College of Staten Island/City University of New York before relocating to Center Sandwich, New Hampshire in 1996.  Since that time he has been a collaborative pianist in the undergraduate MTD Department at Plymouth working with students and faculty alike.  He has taught graduate courses in the foundations of education in the Masters of Education Program at Plymouth State University since 1999 where he pioneered innovative courses in the philosophy of education that run partly online and partly through hiking or snowshoeing all four seasons. He also has taught courses in the philosophy of art and art education as part of the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study at Plymouth. Beginning summer 2007 he began to teach Transformation Through the Arts, a core requirement in the Franklin Pierce Doctor of Arts Program in Leadership. Summer 2008, he joined the doctoral faculty at Franklin Pierce.

His current research and writing project is a journal article on Thoreau and Dewey’s shared concern for “experience”. Other projects involve reading his way into an understanding of “leadership” as a quality of experience, a performative art in the making that’s  best grasped through ethnographic description.