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    Practising Silence in Teaching
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 47 (4): 605-622. 2013.
    The concept ‘silence’ has diametrically opposed meanings; it connotes peace and contemplation as well as death and oblivion. Silence can also be considered a practice. There is keeping the rule of silence to still the mind and find inner truth, as well as forcibly silencing in the sense of subjugating another to one's own purposes. The concept of teaching runs the gamut between these extremes, from respectfully leading students to search and discover, to relentlessly bending them to one's own wi…Read more
  •  37
    Sonorous Voice and Feminist Teaching: Lessons from Cavarero
    Studies in Philosophy and Education 34 (6): 587-602. 2015.
    I claim that Adriana Cavarero’s concept of sonorous voice is significant in feminist teaching because, as she argues, dominant concepts of voice refer to voice in semantic terms thereby discounting voice in sonorous terms. This process of ‘devocalization’, spanning the history of Western philosophy, devalues the uniqueness embodied in each sonorous voice effecting a bias against female-sounding voices. In light of women’s history and experience of being silenced, this devaluing of sonorous voice…Read more
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    Justifying the Arts: The Value of Illuminating Failures
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 45 (1): 59-73. 2011.
    This paper revisits how late 20th-century attempts to account for conceptual and other difficult art-work by defining the concept ‘art’ have failed to offer a useful strategy for educators seeking a non-instrumental justification for teaching the arts. It is suggested that this theoretical ground is nonetheless instructive and provides useful background in searching for a viable approach to justification. It is claimed that, though definition may fail and grand theories not coalesce, one would b…Read more
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    Does Communicative Competence Need To Be Re-conceptualized?
    Journal of Thought 44 (1/2): 101-111. 2009.
  •  2
    The Role of Difficult Art-works in Teaching to be Critical
    Paideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society 14 (2): 39-58. 2001.
  •  1
    Editorial
    Paideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society 18 (1): 1-4. 2009.
    This special issue of Paideusis contains refereed papers from the Conference on Open-mindedness and the Virtues in Education held in honour of William Hare at Mount Saint Vincent University, October 2-4, 2008, on the occasion of Dr. Hare’s retirement from full-time teaching.
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    Sensitive Controversy in Teaching to Be Critical
    Paideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society 18 (1): 80-93. 2009.
    The sensitive nature of certain controversies is particularly problematic for teaching across difference. Questions as to what makes a controversy sensitive and how care and empathy are implicated in discussing it are considered through examples connected to the author’s own practice and in light of the traditional rationalist concept of critical spirit and feminist strong reflexivity. The suggestion is made that discussing sensitive controversy requires a ‘doubled view’ and that this is needed …Read more
  • Foreword
    Paideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society 20 (1): 1-1. 2012.
  • Production Notes
    Paideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society 13 64. 2000.
  • Reading Together in a Different Register
    with Suzanne McCullagh and Ian Reilly
    Studies in Social Justice. forthcoming.
    In this paper we reflect upon our multi-year reading group as a site of decolonial feminist praxis that motivates reading in a different register from how we were trained to read as academics in the humanities. In collaborative study we willingly open ourselves to change, to being worked on by one another and by the texts we read. Our reading together has initiated the undoing of settler colonial academic subjectivity and the co-creation of new forms of scholarly subjectivity grounded in relatio…Read more