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16“I do have to represent the faith:” An Account of an Ecclesiological Problem When Teaching Philosophy in Ontario’s Catholic High SchoolsEncounters in Theory and History of Education 23 147-166. 2022.The Canadian province of Ontario introduced philosophy as a secondary school subject in 1995 (Pinto, McDonough, & Boyd, 2009). Since publicly-funded Catholic schools teach approximately 32% of all students in Ontario (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2022), the question arises regarding how teachers in those schools coordinate philosophy and Catholic teachings. This study employs a secondary analysis of interviews with six teachers from Ontario’s Catholic schools, and employs two of Avery Dulles’ …Read more
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48Philosophy of education in a new key: Snapshot 2020 from the United States and CanadaEducational Philosophy and Theory 54 (8): 1130-1146. 2022.This article shares reflections from members of the community of philosophers of education in the United States and Canada who were invited to express their insights in response to the theme ‘Snaps...
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6Strong democracy in crisis: promise or peril? (edited book)Lexington Books. 2016.This collection of original essays by prominent authors contributes to current debates about democracy in powerful and provocative ways. The occasion for bringing together this notable collection of essays is the opportunity to examine the crisis in democracy and the promise of new alternative models.
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5Helen Palmer, Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange (review)philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 12 (1-2): 217-223. 2022.
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17Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange by Helen PalmerphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 12 (1): 217-223. 2022.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange by Helen PalmerTrevor Norris (bio)Helen Palmer, Queer Defamiliarisation: Writing, Mattering, Making Strange Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, 214 pp. ISBN 978-1-4744-3414-0Helen palmer is senior lecturer in English literature and creative writing at Kingston University in London and the author of Deleuze and Futurism: A Manifesto for Nonsense (2014). H…Read more
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18What Is Educational about Education? The Distinctiveness of EducationEducational Theory 71 (1): 129-148. 2021.
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20Philosophy in Education: Questioning and Dialogue in SchoolsPhilosophical Inquiry in Education 26 (1). 2019.
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12Are Students Becoming Consumerist Learners?Journal of Philosophy of Education 54 (4): 874-886. 2020.Journal of Philosophy of Education, EarlyView.
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18What is at stake in high school philosophy education, and why? Why is it a good idea to teach philosophy at this level? This essay seeks to address some issues that arose in revising the Ontario grade 12 philosophy curriculum documents, significant insights from philosophy teacher education, and some early results of recent research funded by the federal Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada. These three topics include curricular disputes, stories of transformation from philo…Read more
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96Hannah Arendt & Jean Baudrillard: Pedagogy in the Consumer Society (review)Studies in Philosophy and Education 25 (6): 457-477. 2006.This paper considers the place of education within our “consumers’ society”, beginning with Hannah Arendt’s account of the rise of consumerism to a position of political dominance and the resulting eclipse of public life. Connections are then made between Arendt’s account of this rise and Jean Baudrillard’s account of the postmodern proliferation of signs and the transformation of the sign into a commodity. This radical “semiurgy” accelerates into a self-referential series of signs which entails…Read more
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30Response to David Waddington’s Review of Consuming Schools: Commercialism and the End of PoliticsStudies in Philosophy and Education 30 (1): 93-96. 2011.
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11A Philosopher's Journey From Hermeneutics To Emancipatory PoliticsPaideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society 19 (2): 86-97. 2010.
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934Teaching and Learning Philosophy in Ontario High SchoolsJournal of Curriculum Studies 8. 2019.Primary objective: This study represents the first large-scale research on high school philosophy in a public education curriculum in North America. Our objective was to identify the impacts of high school philosophy, as well as the challenges of teaching it in its current format in Ontario high schools. Research design: The qualitative research design captured the perspectives of students and teachers with respect to philosophy at the high school level. All data collection was structured around…Read more
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