M.A. in Counseling Psychology, Bowie State University, Adler-Dreikurs Institute of Human Relations, (1982)
Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies/Social Foundations of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (1972)
M.Ed. in Foundations of Education, Johns Hopkins University, (1969)
Articles
- DeVitis, J. L.. (2011). Preface. Peter Lang Publishing.
- DeVitis, J. L.. and Yu, T. (2011). The Moral Poverty of Character Education. Peter Lang Publishing.
Books
- DeVitis, J. L.. and Yu, T. (2011). Character and Moral Education: A Reader. Peter Lang Publishing.
- DeVitis, J. L.. (2011). Critical Civic Literacy: A Reader. Peter Lang Publishing.
- DeVitis, J. L.. and Irwin-DeVitis, L. (2010). Adolescent Education: A Reader. Peter Lang Publishing.
- DeVitis, J. L.., Robert, J. W. and Douglas, S. J. (1998). To Serve and Learn: The Spirit of Community in Liberal Education. Peter Lang Publishing.
- DeVitis, J. L.. and Martin Rich, J. (1995). The Success Ethic, Education, and the American Dream. State University of New York Press.
- DeVitis, J. L.., Martin Rich, J. and Thomas, C. C. (1994). Theories of Moral Development.
- DeVitis, J. L.. and Martin Rich, J. (1992). Competition in Education.
- DeVitis, J. L.. (1991). Helping and Intervention: Comparative Perspectives on the Impossible Professions . Irvington.
- DeVitis, J. L.. and Vold, D. J. (1991). School Reform in the Deep South: A Critical Appraisal. University of Alabama Press.
- DeVitis, J. L.. and Sola, P. A. (1989). Building Bridges for Educational Reform: New Approaches to Teacher Education . Iowa State University Press.
- DeVitis, J. L.. (1987). Women, Culture and Morality: Selected Essays.
- DeVitis, J. L.., Martin Rich, J. and Thomas, C. C. (1985). Theories of Moral Development.
Book Chapters
- DeVitis, J. L.. (2011). Preface Critical Civic Literacy: A Reader Peter Lang Publishing.
- (2011). The’Moral Poverty’ in Character Education Character and Moral Education Peter Lang Publishing.
- DeVitis, J. L.. and Irwin-DeVitis, L. (2010). Preface Adolescent Education: A Reader Peter Lang Publishing.
- DeVitis, J. L.. (2000). Freud, Karier, and the Therapeutic State Inexcusable Omissions: Clarence Karier and the Critical Tradition in History of Education Scholarship Peter Lang Publishing.
- DeVitis, J. L.. (1996). Freud, Sigmund Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia Garland Publishing Co.
- DeVitis, J. L.. (1990). What John Dewey and Adam Smith Might Say to the University as Corporation Thinking about Education University Press of America.
- DeVitis, J. L.. (1988). An Evaluation of the Aims and Curriculum Proposals in Sizer’s Horace’s Compromise The New Servants of Power: A Critique of the 1980s School Reform Movement Greenwood Publishing.
- 2007: Distinguished Alumni Award, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 2001: Distinguished Service Award, Society of Professors of Education