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17Breaking the Boundaries Collective – A Manifesto for Relationship-based PracticeEthics and Social Welfare 18 (1): 94-106. 2024.This paper argues that professionals who make boundary-related decisions should be guided by relationship-based practice. In our roles as service users and professionals, drawing from our lived experiences of professional relationships, we argue we need to move away from distance-based practice. This includes understanding the boundary stories and narratives that exist for all of us – including the people we support, other professionals, as well as the organisations and systems within which we w…Read more
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41The state of the artJournal of Philosophy of Education 39 (1). 2005.The Blackwell Companion and Blackwell Guide to the philosophy of education, edited respectively by Randall Curren and by Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith and Paul Standish, are potentially field-defining volumes. The present essay moves back and forth between the two books to assess the overall impression they provide of the ‘state of the art’. Whilst both texts can be criticised for failing to engage sufficiently with non-philosophical work on education, these are otherwise estimable vo…Read more
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20The State of the ArtJournal of Philosophy of Education 39 (1): 123-139. 2005.The Blackwell Companion and Blackwell Guide to the philosophy of education, edited respectively by Randall Curren and by Nigel Blake, Paul Smeyers, Richard Smith and Paul Standish, are potentially field-defining volumes. The present essay moves back and forth between the two books to assess the overall impression they provide of the ‘state of the art’. Whilst both texts can be criticised for failing to engage sufficiently with non-philosophical work on education, these are otherwise estimable vo…Read more
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3Putting Principles Before Process: Why Education Ballot Initiatives Should Really Bother UsPhilosophy of Education 65 187-190. 2009.
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6Putting Parental Duties in Their Place: What About Children’s Rights?Philosophy of Education 66 165-167. 2010.
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34Tough Choices: Structured Paternalism and the Landscape of Choice. By Sigal R. Ben-PorathJournal of Philosophy of Education 45 (3): 585-587. 2011.
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29Ethical and Epistemic Dilemmas in Empirically-Engaged Philosophy of EducationStudies in Philosophy and Education 34 (2): 217-228. 2014.This essay examines several ethical and epistemological issues that arise when philosophers conduct empirical research focused on, or in collaboration with, community groups seeking to bring about systemic change. This type of research can yield important policy lessons about effective community-driven reform and how to incorporate the voices of marginalized citizens in public policy debates. Community-based reform efforts are also particularly ripe for philosophical analysis since they can demo…Read more
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35Rethinking educational rights: Implications for philosophy and policyEducational Theory 62 (1): 1-6. 2012.
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31A democratic framework for educational rightsEducational Theory 62 (1): 7-23. 2012.Educational theorists frequently invoke rights claims to express their views about educational justice and authority. But the unyielding nature of rights claims presents a significant quandary in democratic contexts, given the tension between rights claims and majoritarian democracy. Educational theorists have given limited attention to this tension, while political theorists tend to sideline education in their analyses. In this essay Anne Newman addresses this gap by advancing a democratic rati…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |