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1237The ‘Futures’ of Queer Children and the Common School IdealJournal of Philosophy of Education 41 (4): 795-810. 2007.This paper focuses on an especially urgent challenge to the legitimacy of the common school ideal—a challenge that has hardly been addressed within contemporary debates within liberal philosophy of education. The challenge arises from claims to accommodation by queer people and queer communities—claims that are based on notions of queerness and queer identity that are seriously underrepresented within contemporary liberal political and educational theory. The paper articulates a liberal view of …Read more
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916Moral Rules, Utilitarianism and Schizophrenic Moral EducationJournal of Philosophy of Education 26 (1): 75-89. 1992.R. M. Hare has argued for and defended a ‘two-level’, view of moral agency. He argues that moral agents ought to rely on the rules of ‘intuitive moral thinking’ for their ‘everyday’ moral judgments. When these rules conflict or when we do not have a rule at hand, we ought to ascend to the act-utilitarian,‘critical’ level of moral thinking. I argue that since the rules at the intuitive level of moral thinking necessarily conflict much more often than Hare supposes, and since we often do not have …Read more
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186The importance of examples for moral education: An Aristotelian perspectiveStudies in Philosophy and Education 14 (1): 77-103. 1995.The paper develops and contrasts two views about the role of examples in moral education — one based on R.M. Hare's recent “two-level” conception of moral reasoning and one based on Aristotle's conception ofphronesis. It concludes that a Harean view leads to a harmful and impoverished form of moral education by encouraging children to ignore or distort the complexity of particular moral judgments. It also concludes that an Aristotelian view, by emphasizing the importance of rich examples such as…Read more
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137The ‘Futures’ of Queer Children and the Common School IdealIn Mark Halstead & Graham Haydon (eds.), The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal, Wiley‐blackwell. 2008-10-10.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Queer Theory Meets Liberalism: Futurity, Autonomy and Flourishing Liberal Autonomy and ‘Futurity’ Equal Consideration: What is the Difference between Spelunking and Queerness? Queer Children and the Family Liberalism, the Common School Ideal and Queer Futures Conclusion: Queer Theory and Liberalism—Is a Civil Union Possible? Notes References.
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132Moral rules, utilitarianism and schizophrenic moral educationJournal of Philosophy of Education 26 (1). 1992.R. M. Hare has argued for and defended a ‘two-level’, view of moral agency. He argues that moral agents ought to rely on the rules of ‘intuitive moral thinking’ for their ‘everyday’ moral judgments. When these rules conflict or when we do not have a rule at hand, we ought to ascend to the act-utilitarian,‘critical’ level of moral thinking. I argue that since the rules at the intuitive level of moral thinking necessarily conflict much more often than Hare supposes, and since we often do not have …Read more
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88Safeguarding the Epistemic Agency of Intellectually Disabled LearnersPhilosophy of Education 77 (1): 24-41. 2021.
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60Cultural recognition, cosmopolitanism and multicultural educationPhilosophy of Education. forthcoming.
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47Interculturalism, multiculturalism, and the state funding and regulation of conservative religious schoolsEducational Theory 62 (4): 427-447. 2012.In this essay, Bruce Maxwell, David Waddington, Kevin McDonough, Andrée-Anne Cormier, and Marina Schwimmer compare two competing approaches to social integration policy, Multiculturalism and Interculturalism, from the perspective of the issue of the state funding and regulation of conservative religious schools. After identifying the key differences between Interculturalism and Multiculturalism, as well as their many similarities, the authors present an explanatory analysis of this intractable p…Read more
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30The ‘futures’ of queer children and the common school idealJournal of Philosophy of Education 41 (4). 2007.This paper focuses on an especially urgent challenge to the legitimacy of the common school ideal—a challenge that has hardly been addressed within contemporary debates within liberal philosophy of education. The challenge arises from claims to accommodation by queer people and queer communities—claims that are based on notions of queerness and queer identity that are seriously underrepresented within contemporary liberal political and educational theory. The paper articulates a liberal view of …Read more
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28Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2003.The essays in the volume address educational issues that arise when national, sub-national and supra-national identities compete. How can we determine the limits to parental educational rights when liberalism's concern to protect and promote children's autonomy conflicts with the desire to maintain communal integrity? Given the advances made by the forces of globalization, can the liberal-democratic state morally justify its traditional purpose of forging a cohesive national identity? Or has inc…Read more
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27Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2003, 2007.The essays in this volume address the educational issues which arise when national, sub-national, and supra-national identities compete. How can we determine the limits of parental educational rights when the concern of liberalism to protect and promote children's autonomy conflicts with the desire to maintain communal integrity? Given the advances made by the forces of globalization, can the liberal-democratic state morally justify its traditional purpose of forging a cohesive national identity…Read more
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18Citizenship and Education in Liberal-Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2003.This book brings together essays by leading political, legal, and educational theorists to re-examine the requirements of citizenship education in liberal-democratic societies. The chapters in the book evaluate demands by minority groups for cultural recognition through education, and also examine arguments for and against citizenship education as a means of fostering a shared national identity.
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9Does State Secularism Require Teachers to Abstain from Wearing Religious Symbols at School?Philosophy of Education 70 422-430. 2014.
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8Discipline, Devotion and Dissent: Jewish, Catholic, and Islamic Schooling in CanadaPaideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society 22 (2): 50-55. 2015.
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1Cornel M. Hamm, Philosophical Issues in Education: An Introduction Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 13 (2): 96-98. 1993.
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Cornel M. Hamm, Philosophical Issues in Education: An Introduction (review)Philosophy in Review 13 96-98. 1993.