John Tillson

Dr John Tillson is Senior Lecturer in philosophy of education at Liverpool Hope University, Department of Education Studies. He is co-director of Liverpool Hope's CEPA (Centre for Education Policy and Analysis) Research Centre. He is the author of Children, Religion and the Ethics of Influence (Bloomsbury 2019) and (with Winston C. Thompson) co-editor of Pedagogies of Punishment: The Ethics of Discipline in Education. His publications to date have addressed a cluster of closely connected questions about curriculum content, educational aims, and due and undue influence in schooling and upbringing. His research interests can be captured under the expression 'the ethics of influence in childhood'.