Alison Murphy
Alison Murphy is a senior lecturer in Primary Education within the Nottingham Institute of Education at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests include: science education, outdoor...
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Educators learning through communities of philosophical enquiry
‘Community’ is suggestive of collectivism and plurality, while ‘enquiry’ evokes processes of exploration led by pressing questions or concerns. Combining these concepts and practices is at...
Shutting up to promote children’s and young people’s voice
The thing that captured my interest as a reluctant student teacher was the 1991 BBC film The Transformers, which showed children doing philosophy. This wasn’t academic philosophy. Rather than...
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Collaborative questioning: The heart of making enquiry in community?
Usually during academic conferences and seminars, the form of the one-to-one exchange, between ‘presenter’ and ‘participants’, reproduces a certain politics of the academic conversation:...
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Editorial: Educators learning through communities of philosophical enquiry
‘Community’ is suggestive of collectivism and plurality, while ‘enquiry’ evokes processes of exploration led by pressing questions or concerns. Combining these concepts and practices is at...
Continue reading blog postWhat are we saying when we say we listen to children’s voices?
Listening to children is commonly associated with improving educational environments. Many educators believe that granting children more opportunities to express their voices can promote...
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Racism and discomfort in the community of philosophical enquiry: Darren Chetty in conversation with Joanna Haynes
Darren Chetty has written a number of articles relating to Philosophy for Children, racism and multiculturalism. The Dwelling Together film referred to in this interview shows him facilitating...
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Community of enquiry, ethics education and the tensile teacher
Among their many responsibilities, teachers are ethics educators. This role requires significant tensile strength because when teachers take it on, they feel pulled in two directions at...
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Victoria Pendry
Victoria has a background in Primary Education in the UK, specialising in Education for Sustainable Development. Now a freelance consultant, Victoria works with schools, NGOs and Ministries of...
Claudia Blandon
Claudia Blandon has a background in Anthropology, Sociology, International Human Rights Law and Forced Migration Studies. Her doctoral work is a multidisciplinary study between education and...
What about place? Education, identity and ecological justice
Education plays a primary role in identity formation, including the process of national-identity building, which is reflected in education policies, national curricula and teaching practices. In...
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Cat Jones
Cat Jones is a final-year ESRC-funded PhD student at the University of Warwick. Her research focuses on parental engagement with learning. Other research interests include policy, SEND and social...