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Out of our minds : Hacker and Heidegger contra neuroscienceIn Clarence W. Joldersma (ed.), Neuroscience and Education: A Philosophical Appraisal, Routledge. 2016.
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13Meditation in the Workplace: Does Mindfulness Reduce Bias and Increase Organisational Citizenship Behaviours?Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.Mindfulness is becoming increasingly popular in the workplace. This likely relates to a growing body of research linking mindfulness to a range of psychological outcomes such as reduced anxiety, depression and increased subjective wellbeing. However, while mindfulness has received a great deal of attention in clinical research, the evidence for workplace relevant benefits is less established. Additionally, outside of clinical research, mindfulness studies have rarely been replicated. Recent evid…Read more
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17Sound not Light: Levinas and the Elements of ThoughtEducational Philosophy and Theory 48 (4): 360-373. 2016.Can Levinas’ thought of the other be extended beyond the relation to the other human being? This article seeks to demonstrate that Levinas’ philosophy can indeed be read in such a sense and that this serves to open up a new way of understanding human thinking. Key to understanding such an extension of Levinas’ philosophy will be his account of the face and, more particularly, his claim that the relation to the face is ‘heard in language’. Through explicating what is at stake in this claim, we wi…Read more
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4Are the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 Suitable for Use in India? A Psychometric AnalysisFrontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.
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8Balance: Benefit or bromide?Journal of Philosophy of Education 56 (4): 535-546. 2022.There seem to be obvious virtues to keeping a sense of balance. In this paper, I consider some examples from ordinary life and education where the pursuit of balance would appear to be a benefit. Yet I also draw upon lines of thinking from John Stuart Mill and Adam Phillips to examine whether the apparent good sense of balance can be disturbed. I show how Mill's and Phillips’ ideas extend into a consideration of the aesthetics of balance and the idea that there might be something deceptively all…Read more
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8Balance: Benefit or bromide?Journal of Philosophy of Education 56 (4): 535-546. 2022.There seem to be obvious virtues to keeping a sense of balance. In this paper, I consider some examples from ordinary life and education where the pursuit of balance would appear to be a benefit. Yet I also draw upon lines of thinking from John Stuart Mill and Adam Phillips to examine whether the apparent good sense of balance can be disturbed. I show how Mill's and Phillips’ ideas extend into a consideration of the aesthetics of balance and the idea that there might be something deceptively all…Read more
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1EditorialJournal of Philosophy of Education 56 (2): 193-195. 2022.Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 2, Page 193-195, April 2022.
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17Introduction: The crisis in mental health and educationJournal of Philosophy of Education 56 (1): 4-11. 2022.Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 4-11, February 2022.
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13‘We are creating conditions for young people that are un-survivable’: An interview with Sanah AhsanJournal of Philosophy of Education 56 (1): 88-93. 2022.Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 88-93, February 2022.
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21‘Psychoanalysis is one more way of taking people seriously’: Adam Phillips in conversation with Emma WilliamsJournal of Philosophy of Education 56 (1): 180-189. 2022.Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 180-189, February 2022.
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12Making a drama out of a mental health crisisJournal of Philosophy of Education 56 (1): 139-147. 2022.Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 139-147, February 2022.
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18Playful teasing and the emergence of pretencePhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 21 (5): 1023-1041. 2022.The study of the emergence of pretend play in developmental psychology has generally been restricted to analyses of children’s play with toys and everyday objects. The widely accepted criteria for establishing pretence are the child’s manipulation of object identities, attributes or existence. In this paper we argue that there is another arena for pretending—playful pretend teasing—which arises earlier than pretend play with objects and is therefore potentially relevant for understanding the mor…Read more
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3IntroductionJournal of Philosophy of Education 55 (3): 425-429. 2021.Journal of Philosophy of Education, EarlyView.
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10Language Subjects: Placing Derrida’s Monolingualism in Global EducationStudies in Philosophy and Education 40 (2): 135-148. 2021.Derrida’s autobiographical and philosophical text Monolingualism of the Other; or, the Prosthesis of Origin is a partial recounting of his own childhood and upbringing in Algeria at a time when it was a colony of France. It is on one level a reflection on matters related to colonialism, and especially on the effects of the imposition of colonial language upon schooling and wider practices of education and coming into the world. Yet Derrida’s text also opens onto structural questions about estran…Read more
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17Morals to Maths: Coetzee, Plato and the Fiction of EducationBritish Journal of Educational Studies 67 (3): 371-387. 2019.In J.M. Coetzee’s novel The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), the question of finding the ‘right education’ for a young child is a central and recurring theme. In particular, the novel presents us with t...