Peer-Reviewed Publications

Samuel D. Rocha, “Education as Mystery,” Educational Philosophy and Theory. (forthcoming)

Samuel D. Rocha, “Erotic Study: Fortune, Baby-Talk, and Jazz,” Philosophy of Education 2012. (forthcoming)

Bryan R. Warnick, Benjamin A. Johnson, Samuel D. Rocha, “The Meaning of School Violence: Ten Years After Columbine,” Educational Theory. (available online)

Samuel D. Rocha, “A Return to Love in William James and Jean-Luc Marion,” Educational Theory, Vol. 59, No. 5, 579 - 588. (available online)

Samuel D. Rocha, “Rocha: Review Essay of Remarks on Marx and Power,” Foucault Studies, No 7, 99-109. (available online)

Tom Falk, Samuel D. Rocha, and Bryan Warnick, “Social Science and its Discontents: An Essay Review of Bent Flyvbjerg’s Making Social Science Matter,” Educational Review, vol. 12, no. 4, 1-15. (available online)

Samuel D. Rocha, “Locating Leadership: Rethinking Educational Leadership,” The Roundtable: A Refereed Publication of Scholarly Papers, vol.2, no. 1, Spring 2009.  (available online)

Samuel D. Rocha, "On Replacing a Utilitarian Teleology in Education," 2006-2007 Proceedings of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education. (available online)

Invited Publications

Samuel D. Rocha, "Transcending 'Transcendence': From freedom to fidelity, from adios to a Dios," Philosophy of Education 2011. (in press)

Samuel D. Rocha, "Solidarity in Vulgarity: the Funk in Racist Jokes," X-Position: Journal of the Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies, 22 - 23. (available online)

Samuel D. Rocha, "Reading, Meaning, and Being," Philosophy of Education 2010, 250 - 252. (available online)

Timothy Leonard and Samuel D. Rocha, “A Dialogue on Love, Compassion, and Curriculum Studies,” chapter in Spirituality, Mythopoesis and Learning, Peter Willis and Timothy Leonard (Eds.), (Brisbane, AU: Post Pressed, 2010). (available online)

Samuel D. Rocha, “Questions to Access Epistemological Beliefs,” sidebar entry in Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia, Eric & Lynley Anderman (Eds.), (Detroit: MacMillan Reference, 2009). (available online)

Book Reviews

Samuel D. Rocha, (in press), A book review of Heidegger's Philosophic Pedagogy (Ehrmantraut, 2010), Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Samuel D. Rocha, A book review of Latinos in America (Gracia, 2008), Journal of Philosophy of Education. (available online)


Samuel D. Rocha, A book review of Why Foucault: New Directions in Educational Research (Peters and Besely, 2007), Foucault Studies, No 7, 144-147. (available online)

Samuel D. Rocha, A book review of Schooling Under the Security State (Gabbard and Ross, 2009), Education Review. (available online)

Samuel D. Rocha, A philosophical book review of Foucault 2.0: Beyond Power and Knowledge (Paras, 2006), Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy, No. 5, 2008, 84-85. (available online)

Samuel D. Rocha, An educational book review of Foucault 2.0: Beyond Power and Knowledge (Paras, 2006), Education Review, July 27th, 2008. (available online)