Outputs (10)
Ethnophilosophy as a Global Development Goal (2024)
Journal Article
The ethnophilosophy debate in African philosophy has been primarily concerned with the nature and future direction of African philosophy, but I approach it in search of lessons about philosophy in general. I show how this ongoing debate has been obsc... Read More about Ethnophilosophy as a Global Development Goal.
Sustaining professionalism: Teachers as co‐enquirers in curriculum design (2024)
Journal Article
In England, the development of teachers' curriculum design capabilities has been identified as a ‘challenge remaining’ (Department for Education [DfE]. (2022). Opportunity for all: Strong schools with great teachers for your child. https://www.gov.uk... Read More about Sustaining professionalism: Teachers as co‐enquirers in curriculum design.
The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures (2024)
Journal Article
My key objective in this article is to explore the history of the concept of utopia and its application in really existing social, political, economic and cultural forms. Starting with a consideration of what I call the economy of utopia, I theorise... Read More about The tragedy of utopia in the age of the Anthropocene: Beyond dystopia, despair and catastrophic futures.
Freedom, Democracy and Self-Government: The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson (2024)
Journal Article
This paper has as its focus the life and thinking of the educational theorist and schoolmaster J. H. Simpson (1883–1959), who was not only a reforming teacher at Rugby School but was also the first headmaster of the progressive Rendcomb College. His... Read More about Freedom, Democracy and Self-Government: The Progressive Case of J.H. Simpson.
Editorial: Narrating exile (2024)
Journal Article
Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation (2024)
Journal Article
As a promising Social Science Methodology, Structural/Mechanism Explanation (SME) retains the advantages of mechanism-based explanation (ME), particularly its focus on “identifying causal patterns from micro-level social phenomena.” It also acknowled... Read More about Understanding the Power of China’s National Social Credit System: A Structural/Mechanism Explanation.
Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China (2024)
Journal Article
In this paper we ask: what does ‘the idea’ of the Chinese university mean at the current time, especially when the sector has been shaped by endogenous and exogenous globalising dynamics? We explore this question, drawing on cultural political econom... Read More about Civilisational ‘ideas’, state power, and globalising ‘realities’: structuring mechanisms shaping contemporary higher education outcomes in China.
Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War (2024)
Journal Article
Over 1000 companies have either curtailed or else completely ceased operations in Russia as a response to its invasion of Ukraine, a mass corporate exodus of a speed and scale which we’ve never seen. While corporate withdrawal appears to have conside... Read More about Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War.