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228What should 'safety' mean in the classroom?In Jane Gatley & Christian Norefalk (eds.), Philosophical Anaylsis for Educational Problems: Engineering and ameliorating educational concepts, . 2024.In 1998, Robert Boostrom wrote that ‘safe-space’ was an emerging metaphor in educational discourse but was not yet a ‘topic of educational inquiry’ (p.398). Whilst there has been a great amount of work since then exploring the topic (for example, Holley and Steiner; Stengel; The Roestone Collective and Callan), a lack of clarity still clouds the debate around the place of safe spaces in the classroom. In this paper, I address this lack of clarity by addressing the fundamental question: what does…Read more
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63Between Vulnerability and Resilience: A Contextualist Picture of Protective Epistemic Character TraitsJournal of Philosophy of Education 55 (2): 358-370. 2021.In this paper, I argue that focusing on resilience education fails to appropriately reflect the socio-political nature of character. I define protective epistemic character traits (PECTs) as epistemic character traits which aid students in avoiding, limiting or mitigating harm in the classroom. I argue that the relationship between epistemic character and protection in hostile classrooms is importantly influenced by context in two main ways: (1) the exercise and development of some PECTs may car…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Trust |
Feminist Epistemology |
Epistemic Virtues |
Social Epistemology |
Epistemic Responsibility |