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Book review: Douglas W. Yacek, Mark E. Jonas and Kevin H. Gary (eds), Moral Education in the 21st Century Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Drew Chambers
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Considerations for effective use of moral exemplars in education: Based on the self-determination theory and data syntheses Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Hyemin Han, Marja Graham
The present study aimed to examine how to improve the effectiveness of moral exemplar-applied interventions based on the pillars of the self-determination theory framework, autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Past research has mainly focused on the relatedness and attainability of moral exemplars for predicting motivation outcomes. The data for this study consisted of synthesized data sets from
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Living well with AI: Virtue, education, and artificial intelligence Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Nicholas Smith, Darby Vickers
Artificial intelligence technologies have become a ubiquitous part of human life. This prompts us to ask, ‘how should we live well with artificial intelligence?’ Currently, the most prominent candidate answers to this question are principlist. According to these approaches, if you teach people some finite set of principles or convince them to adopt the right rules, people will be able to live and act
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Service learning and the just community: Complementary pragmatist forms of civic character education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Gonzalo Jover, Vicent Gozálvez
This article investigates the theoretical link between two approaches to civic character education: Service Learning and the Just Community, given that the two share a strong democratic ethical component. Based on historical research and bibliographical review, we show that John Dewey’s pragmatism forms a theoretical foundation of both approaches. Our revision combines the search for a normative foundation
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Why do people go to college? The institutional environment and the educational dispositions of community college students Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-01-25 David B. Monaghan
Empirical educational research nearly universally tacitly assumes that people attend college only in order to improve their likely earnings. Thus, it ignores the immense cultural importance ascribed to education (and particularly higher education) in modern culture, or at least proceeds as if this cultural valorization is irrelevant to individuals’ educational decision-making. I first review how an
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Meritocracy, meritocratic education, and equality of opportunity Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Toby Napoletano
There are two ways, broadly speaking, that one might conceive of meritocratic education. On a standard, ‘narrow’ conception, a meritocratic approach to education is one which distributes certain educational goods and opportunities according to merit. On a second, ‘broader’ conception, however, meritocratic education is an educational system suited to a commitment to meritocracy – where ‘meritocracy’
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Provincializing White racial ideology: Mills’ social ontology and philosophy of education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Sheron Fraser-Burgess
Social ontology examines the nature and mechanisms in human society of concepts that pertain to various kinds of social collectivities. A pioneer in the development of this philosophical field, Mil...
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Mills’s account of white ignorance: Structural or non-structural? Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Zara Bain
Recent philosophical secondary literature on white ignorance – a concept most famously developed by the late philosopher Charles W. Mills – suggests that white ignorance is, one way or another, a n...
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Structural white ignorance and education for racial justice Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-18 A. C. Nikolaidis
While white ignorance is primarily produced and reproduced through social-structural processes, philosophy of education scholarship has focused on agent-centered educational solutions. This article...
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The right to higher education: A political theory Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Christopher Martin
In The Right to Higher Education: A Political Theory, I argue that post-compulsory education should be an individual right in a liberal democratic society. Here, I respond to a series of criticisms...
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Pity the unready and the unwilling: Choice, chance, and injustice in Martin’s ‘The Right to Higher Education’ Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Philip Cook
For Martin, the right to free higher education may be claimed only by those ready and willing pursue autonomy supporting higher education. The unready and unwilling, among whom may be counted carer...
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More than race? Mills, ethnicity, and education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Winston C. Thompson
Building on the careful racial analyses of Charles W. Mills, this article uses the example case of Black ethnics to illustrate the general plausibility of ethnic identity as a useful political anal...
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The right to higher education and the gap between ideal theory and non-ideal decisions Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Harry Brighouse, Kailey Mullane
Christopher Martin argues that an interest in strong autonomy supports a right to debt-free higher education and that making tuition free is the best way of enacting that right. We argue that makin...
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Commentary on The Right to Higher Education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Lauren Bialystok
Martin’s argument for the right to higher education is an exercise in ideal theory, which specifically distances itself from the familiar failings of compulsory education. I argue that even using s...
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More house on an ever-shakier foundation: An administrator’s perspective on institutional reforms in the context of Christopher Martin’s ideal Right to Higher Education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Andrew Pulvermacher
In this paper version of the response I offered to Christopher Marin as part of the symposium on The Right to Higher Education at the 2022 North American Association for Philosophy & Education Conf...
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Fairness, autonomy, and a right to higher education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2023-03-07 David O’Brien
In The Right to Higher Education, Christopher Martin develops a powerful, autonomy-based argument that there is a moral right to access to higher education. I raise three concerns about whether thi...
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If this is indoctrination, we are all indoctrinated Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Luke Armstrong
When thinking about moral education, a concern of liberals is that such education ought not to be indoctrinatory. There are various definitions of indoctrination, but a common theme is that indoctr...
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Trauma drama: The trouble with competitive victimhood Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Robert S. Taylor
Writing a college-application essay has become a rite of passage for high-school seniors in the United States, one whose importance has expanded over time due to an increasingly competitive admissi...
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The broad and the narrow account of education – A false dichotomy? Marley-Payne’s suggestion for amelioration of the concept of education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Christian Norefalk
In his article ‘An Ameliorative Analysis of the Concept of Education’, Jack Marley-Payne sets out to provide an ameliorative analysis of the concept ‘education’. Marley-Payne draws an important dis...
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The ethical costs of using higher education for economic mobility Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Dustin Webster
A great deal of recent scholarship on economically disadvantaged students and higher education works under the foundational assumption that going to college can and/or should serve the goal of econ...
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Political dissent and citizenship education during times of populism and youth activism Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Sarah M. Stitzlein
To maintain and improve our democracy, we must better prepare students for understanding, valuing, participating in, and responding to political dissent. This is especially the case in light of rec...
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Meritocracy, education, and the civic project: A reply to commentaries on The Tyranny of Merit Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Michael J. Sandel
Michael Sandel replies to commentaries on his book The Tyranny of Merit, focusing on meritocracy and education, the role of merit and grace in economic discourse, and the resentment that fueled the...
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‘Do your own research!’ Misinformation, ignorance, and social media Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Henry Lara-Steidel
Writing in 2011, Philip Kitcher worried in ‘Public knowledge and its enemies’ that flaws in the dissemination of public knowledge would lead from a state of widespread ignorance to active resistanc...
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How do intellectual virtues promote good thinking and knowing? Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Eranda Jayawickreme, William Fleeson
In a 2012 Theory and Research in Education article, Spiegel argued that intellectual humility and open-mindedness can mutually reinforce each other to produce good thinking and knowing. In this com...
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The tyranny of meritocracy and elite higher education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-07-16 Harry Brighouse
In The Tyranny of Merit, Michael Sandel argues that the American society is not meritocratic, that belief that it is causes various social harms, and that some of those harms –in particular, the co...
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Is it time for a new meritocracy? Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-07-15 Veronika Tašner, Slavko Gaber
Meritocracy is a rationality that has significantly shaped the lives of people in modern societies, and today we all more or less believe that those who are smart, capable and hardworking will succ...
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Power, populism, and a policy of grace: Moral perspectives in The Tyranny of Merit and Cut Loose Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-07-09 Victor Chen, Timothy Beryl Bland
We argue that the compelling critical perspective put forward by Michael Sandel in The Tyranny of Merit could benefit from the account of power that Cut Loose advanced in its earlier typology. Firs...
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Merit and ressentiment: How to tackle the tyranny of merit Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Jonathan J. B. Mijs
My contribution to this special issue engages with Michael Sandel’s The Tyranny of Meritocracy and its significance to the academic conversation about meritocracy and its discontents. Specifically,...
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The trouble with merit Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Mitja Sardoč
The last few years have witnessed a resurgence of interest among both scholars and public intellectuals over issues associated with distributive justice and its gravitational orbit of concepts, inc...
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Introduction Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Ben Kotzee
It gives me great pleasure to introduce the first issue of Volume 20 of Theory and Research in Education (TRE). Since 2003, our journal has served as a forum for theoretical discussions of topics in education and, over the course of the two decades since, it has published lively considerations of educational questions drawing from such disciplinary standpoints as philosophy, sociology, history, economics
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Recognizing human dignity behind bars: A moral justification for college-in-prison programs Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-05-31 John P. Fantuzzo
There is currently bipartisan support for criminal justice reform in the United States. One reform, recently passed through the Consolidated Appropriations Act/COVID relief package (December 2020), restored need-based, higher educational aid for incarcerated persons. With a resurgence of college-in-prison programs on the horizon, this article joins recent efforts to understand the moral justification
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Revisiting The Transformative Classroom: A response to Schroeder-Strong, Merrifield, Morgan, and Dahlbeck Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Douglas W. Yacek
In this response to reviewers, I revisit some of the central positions and theses of my book The Transformative Classroom and engage with several important criticisms. In doing so, I try to point out what I think is of particular value for further understanding the transformative potential of the classroom, especially where I think I could have captured this better in the book.
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Citizenship, self-efficacy and education: A conceptual review Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Bram Eidhof, Doret de Ruyter
Primary and secondary schools across the world are expected to contribute to the citizenship development of their pupils. Most citizenship curricula focus on the acquisition of knowledge and the cultivation of skills and attitudes. Citizenship-related self-efficacy beliefs are often neglected in the literature on citizenship education, although they appear to play a crucial role in learning processes
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Bridging critical thinking and transformative learning: The role of perspective-taking Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-27 James Southworth
Although the literature on critical thinking and transformative learning has remained relatively distinct, they have both emphasized the importance of working through and resolving states of doubt. There has been less focus, however, on how we can bring ourselves from a confirmed belief to a position of doubt. This is a foundational skill. Without it, the possibility for intellectual and personal growth
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Refining dissent: Response to Sarah M. Stitzlein’s ‘Democratic education in an era of town hall protests’ (2011) Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Eric F. Luckey
What is dissent? And how should educators teach students the skills and dispositions of this democratic virtue? By engaging with the 2011 article by Sarah M. Stitzlein on ‘Democratic education in an era of town hall protests’, this retrospective article discusses Stitzlein’s definition of dissent, her curricular approach to teaching dissent, and the context in which she offered both. It concludes by
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Yacek’s Transformative Classroom in the contemporary K-12 system Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Hannah Morgan
In his theory of educational transformation, Douglas Yacek outlines the possibility of aspiration as an educational model. In Yacek’s aspirational model, students undergo an awakening, acknowledge their ethical distance, recognize their ethical difference, and then make a resolution to change. After providing the theoretical background in conversation with other theories of transformation, Yacek offers
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Motivational aspects of transformative education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-15 Mark Schroeder-Strong
Douglas Yacek’s Transformative Education is critiqued according to how well various transformative education practices reflect current motivational theories. The conversion, emancipation, reconstruction, and aspirational strategies are set against popular theories of motivation in education: Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory, Carol Dweck’s Growth Mindset Theory, and Abraham Maslow’s Human Needs
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Failures of imagination: Racial justice in philosophy and education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Jeff Frank
This article is a retrospective look at Chris Lebron’s essay ‘Thoughts on Racial Democratic Education and Moral Virtue’. I argue that Lebron’s work remains extremely relevant, both for its vision of antiracist education, and for the methodological questions it allows readers to contend with. As we are living in an age of increasing backlash to antiracist education, taking another look at Lebron’s essay
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Transformative gestures Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Johan Dahlbeck
I was 15 when I graduated junior high school (or its Swedish equivalent högstadiet). On the day of my graduation, my English teacher Mr Möller slipped me a worn paperback book without saying anything to me. It was a used copy of E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime with yellowed pages, and on the inside of the cover he had written: ‘To Johan – a book that has everything’. To be truthful, I didn’t read the book
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The Transformative Classroom: Philosophical Foundations and Practical Applications Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Merrifield Bill
Douglas Yacek delivers a careful critique of contemporary models of transformative education and presents his own model of the aspiration in The Transformative Classroom. This article examines Yacek's arguments and highlights the need to include the complexities of collectivism and cultural identity in contemporary discussion about educational transformation.
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Rawls’ traces in contemporary philosophy of education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-12-02 M. Victoria Costa (William & Mary)
This article examines the many traces of John Rawls’ theory of justice in contemporary philosophy of education. Beyond work that directly explores the educational implications of justice as fairness and political liberalism, there are many interesting debates in philosophy of education that make use of Rawlsian concepts to defend views that go well beyond those advocated in justice as fairness. There
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Using social domain theory to seek critical consciousness with young children Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Robyn Ilten-Gee, Sarah Manchanda
The question of ‘developmental appropriateness’ in education can be both empowering and inhibiting. When are students ‘ready’ to talk about social injustices and systemic inequalities? How might educators introduce social inequities using developmental findings about reasoning? This article presents social domain theory as a lens through which educators can approach critical consciousness education
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Two limits to the application of Rawls’s concepts of autonomy and the difference principle in contemporary philosophy of education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Zdenko Kodelja
The concept of justice that Rawls discussed in his famous book “A Theory of Justice” has had a profound influence on contemporary political and moral philosophy, as well as, to some extent, philosophy of education. Many philosophers of education have applied or criticized Rawls’s concepts – above all the concepts of autonomy, the person, fair equality of opportunity and the difference principle – which
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The significance of A Theory of Justice for philosophy of education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Randall Curren
This article offers retrospective and prospective commentary on the significance of A Theory of Justice for philosophy of education. It addresses the progress that Anglophone philosophy of education has made since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, and the ways this progress has been facilitated by the transformation of political philosophy that Rawls set in motion. It offers examples
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The take-up of Rawls’ theory of the good in philosophy of education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-12-02 John White
Personal well-being is a central concept in philosophical discussions of education and its aims. Although the work of general philosophers like Nussbaum, Griffin, Raz and Sen on the topic has been influential here, there has been next-to-no interest among philosophers of education in John Rawls’s work on ‘the good’ – in great contrast to interest in his work on ‘the right’, and despite the key place
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Gotta know why! Preliminary evidence supporting a theory of virtue learning as applied to intellectual curiosity Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Gabe Avakian Orona
Virtue education is gaining popularity in institutions of higher education. Given this growing interest, several theoretical accounts explaining the process of virtue learning have emerged. However, there is scant empirical evidence supporting their applicability for intellectual virtue. In this study, we apply a theory of virtue learning to the development of intellectual curiosity among undergraduates
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An ameliorative analysis of the concept of education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Jack Marley-Payne
Ameliorative analysis is a powerful new approach to understanding concepts, stemming from cutting-edge work at the intersection of philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and metaphysics. It offers the potential to improve our understanding of a range of subject matters. One topic to which it has not yet been applied is the concept of education. Doing so can enhance our understanding of this vital
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Book review: Tyson Lewis, Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education: From Riddles to Radio Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Harvey Shapiro
Tyson Lewis has a remarkable ability to interpret complex philosophical works by developing their explicit and implicit educational concepts. Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education is no exception. In this fine book, Lewis seeks to provide an ‘educational response to the manipulativeness, coldness, and hardness’ of growing authoritarianism in education (p. 16). He is ambitious, considering the book
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Book review: Campbell F. Scribner and Bryan R. Warnick, Spare the Rod: Punishment and the Moral Community of Schools Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Christopher Martin
In fact, Lewis’s book is built around examples (paradigms), in this latter sense, to yield new forms of knowledge and applications to teaching. Thus, the ‘riddle’ is a paradigm for what Lewis calls ‘noncommunicative communication’; the ‘collection’ for ‘antifascist educational form[s]’; the ‘radio broadcast’ as a paradigm for ‘instructional practice[s] that . . . . produce historical awakenings’ (p
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Book reviews: Maria Hantzopoulos and Monisha Bajaj, Educating for Peace and Human Rights: An Introduction Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Christina Parker
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Discussion and inquiry: A Deweyan perspective on teaching controversial issues Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-10-26 Veli-Mikko Kauppi, Johannes Drerup
There is a steady line of academic discourse around the topic of controversial issues and how to approach them in and through education. In this line of discourse, discussion is widely seen as a primary method of democratic education that is especially suitable to foster its major educational aims, such as tolerance, reciprocal respect, or political autonomy. The aim of this contribution is to show
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Questions in secondary classrooms: Toward a theory of questioning Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-09-18 Kimberly Alexander, Charles H. Gonzalez, Paul J. Vermette, Sabrina Di Marco
At the heart of the teaching practice is the art of questioning. Costa and Kallick noted that questions are the means by which insights unlock thinking. Effective questioning is essential to effective teaching. Despite this, a cohesive theory on the method of questioning has yet to be developed. A discussion of questioning is vital to moving the teaching profession forward. In this article, we propose
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Corrigendum to “Book Review: Mark E. Jonas and Yoshiaki Nakazawa, A Platonic Theory of Moral Education: Cultivating Virtue in Contemporary Democratic Classrooms” by Avi I. Mintz. Published in Theory and Research in Education, volume 19, issue 2, pp. 206–208. DOI: 10.1177/14778785211029756 Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-08-06
The surname of the first author Mark E. Jonas of the book reviewed here should be spelt “Jonas” and not “Jones” as was used mistakenly within the review.
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Less-standard claims to justice through the lens of media debates on minority education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-17 Dorota Lepianka
The coexistence, not always peaceful, of multiple and often rival, conceptions of justice in education policy and practice is well recognized and problematized in the academic literature. Relatively little is known, however, about what kind of justice-related considerations occupy the ‘public mind’ and/or inform what Nancy Fraser calls ‘folk paradigms of justice’. The current article seeks to shed
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Cognitive-emotional skills and democratic education Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-17 Hannah Read
A primary aim of any comprehensive democratic education is to prepare citizens for full and active participation in the public sphere. Crucial to meeting this aim is the development of key cognitive-emotional skills, such as perspective-taking. At the same time, many of the social institutions in which cognitive-emotional skill training might be implemented – such as schools – are insufficiently diverse
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Epistemic corruption and the research impact agenda Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-17 Ian James Kidd, Jennifer Chubb, Joshua Forstenzer
Contemporary epistemologists of education have raised concerns about the distorting effects of some of the processes and structures of contemporary academia on the epistemic practice and character of academic researchers. Such concerns have been articulated using the concept of epistemic corruption. In this article, we lend credibility to these theoretically motivated concerns using the example of
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Editor’s Introduction Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-17 Ben Kotzee
It is a pleasure to write an occasional editor’s introduction for the latest issue of Theory and Research in Education, albeit at a challenging time. Over the last year-and-a-half, our journal’s community has shared in the difficulties associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. From correspondence with readers, authors, editorial board members and reviewers, we are keenly aware of the extent to which our
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Book review: Robert F. Ladenson, Moral Issues in Special Education: An Inquiry into the Basic Rights, Responsibilities and Ideals Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Colin Macleod
interlocutors’ characters – their concerns, their experiences and their acts before or after the dramatic date of the dialogues in which they appear – colours every Socratic conversation. Jones and Nakazawa are primarily interested in addressing the scholarship that ignored Plato’s characterization and drama and focused instead on dividing his corpus into periods of his alleged intellectual development
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Book review: Henry A. Giroux, Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis Theory and Research in Education Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Mark T. S. Currie
Although at different intensities and urgencies in different places, the world is currently navigating the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As millions of people have contracted the virus and lost their lives to it, our societal discourse has changed. The way we interact (or not) with others has changed. Where, how, and if we work and go to school has changed. I was surprised in reading Henry A. Giroux’s