'Learning from' in Religious Education, as a mode of moving towards interdenominational and interfaith learning, has a long and fruitful history. However, It has been criticised for being overly subjective as it mainly encourages learning about oneself. Though this has value, it needs to address better the need to understand rather than simply use…

Academic freedom has become an important topic in recent years, due to various kinds of threats to the freedom of research and teaching in higher education around the world. What makes investigating academic freedom difficult is its complexity and ambivalence, but also national legal frameworks and the history of higher education in respective…

While the absence of gatekeeping can foster a problematic populist disregard for scholarly expertise, there can exist a tension between scholarship that seeks to challenge or reimagine ways of knowing within a discipline and gatekeepers reliant on pervasive epistemologies. Given the limitations of present philosophical gatekeeping practices, I…

Teaching and learning are interconnected, evolving processes that extend beyond the transmission of knowledge to foster intellectual curiosity, adaptability, and personal growth. Effective teaching requires the integration of various pedagogical strategies designed to diverse learning needs, promoting creativity and deep understanding. The…

This paper exemplifies a way of recasting researchers' autobiographical narratives as an intellectual resource. In so doing, it aims to describe the inherent complexity and multilayered nature of the onto-epistemic foundations for studying global education policy (GEP). It seeks to achieve this aim through self-reflective thinking about my own…

The article considers the intellectual odyssey of the Hungarian sociologist Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) during the three phases of his career: as a Jewish intellectual and philosopher in Hungary during the communist revolution of 1919, as an exile in the German Weimar Republic from 1920 to 1933, and as a refugee from Nazi Germany in England from…

Parental rights have become perhaps the most important concept in contemporary educational policy debates. This paper attempts to clarify some of the conceptual terrain around parental rights, their foundations, and how (or, indeed, whether) parental rights might fit into dominant theories of rights more generally. The author does not argue…

This paper explores educators' use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) for their work. While educators might be more worried about their students farming out some of the tasks they are given to AI, there is an argument that educators ought to also be concerned about the damage done when they offload seemingly administrative or…

Philosophers of education rely on a set of concepts. They refer to students, teachers, learners, schools, classrooms, etc. to theorize about what education is and ought to be. In employing these concepts, however, two ambiguities arise: variation among conceptualizations and gaps between a conceptualization of a thing and the normative valence it…

The paper suggests that 'language change' might hold an important key to aspects of educational reform and to the betterment of teacher education. The language we identify as contributing the most to the ineffectiveness of educational reform is the educational language impregnated by psychologised metaphors, which dominate educational discourses…

In recent years, there has been active discussion regarding the potential role of mathematics education research in informing teaching practice. As both a holder of a Ph.D. who continues to publish research in international journals, and a practising secondary school teacher with ten years of classroom experience, I propose in this essay a…

The rapid advancement of Conversational AI tools like ChatGPT has sparked polarized debates in academia, particularly around issues of plagiarism, ownership, and bias. Unexamined misconceptions may hinder the effective integration of Conversational AI tools, limiting their potential to stimulate interactive and convergent learning experiences.…

Many Faculties of Education in the UK and elsewhere have 'social justice' written into their mission statements. But are they concerned by questions of social justice in education, or has the term become somewhat vacuous and devoid of substantive meaning? The present article subjects recent discourses about social justice in education to scrutiny…

The planet Earth has become increasingly susceptible to human-induced (anthropogenic) ecological disasters. The currently raging COVID-19 pandemic adds to the vast scale of destruction and suffering that humanity and the planet are experiencing. In this paper we explicate the meaning of 'human-induced' destruction in the terms of the damaging and…

This paper contributes to the ongoing debate surrounding the place of 'worldviews' in Religious Education. We examine the British Commission on Religious Education proposal that the subject be renamed 'Religions and Worldviews' from the perspective of Worldview Theory and Critical Religious Education and make the following suggestions: (a) the…