Jane Roland Martin, Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and a past president of the Philosophy of Education Society, is the recipient of numerous honors and awards. Among these are honorary doctorates from the University of Umeå in Sweden and Salem State University in Massachusetts; fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; the AERA Willystine Goodsell Award and Division B Award for Outstanding Contributions to Curriculum; an Alumnae Recognition Award from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a Harvard Graduate School of Education Alumni Council Award for Outstanding Contributions to Education; and the John Dewey Lectureship. In addition, the Routledge volume Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day includes a chapter on Martin and D.G. Mulcahy has published a book about her work in the series Critical Studies on Education and Culture.

Her publications include Reclaiming a Conversation (Yale University Press, 1981), The Schoolhome (Harvard University Press, 1992), Changing the Educational Landscape (Routledge, 1994), Coming of Age in Academe (Routledge, 2000), Cultural Miseducation (Teachers College Press, 2002), and Educational Metamorphoses (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).