The first Philosophy of Education SIG Meet and Discuss of 2026/27 provides an opportunity to meet others in the field, hear updates on SIG collaborations, and help to plan future events. We will...
On 13 June 2025, the High Court dismissed a legal challenge to the UK government’s decision to apply Value Added Tax (VAT) to private school fees. On 27 February 2026, the Court of Appeal upheld...
How do researchers make ethical decisions about sharing their work, and who gets to access the knowledge they produce? In this episode, we explore alternative approaches to publication and...
This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.
Decolonial work is often discussed as if it were principally about knowledge: whose histories appear, whose concepts travel, whose methods count. Yet the deeper claim is ethical. It is about how...
A stalemate is how we understand knowledge Education faces a philosophical stalemate. On one side is an ‘objective obsession’ with standardised metrics. For example, English education polices...
In recent years, educational initiatives promoting empathy as a pathway to understanding and global citizenship have surged (see for example The British Academy; Cumbria Community Foundation;...
In this blog post, we think about how artificial intelligence (AI) might open space(s) for Right Action by expanding individualistic human discernment, and by moving towards collective/communal...
The Philosophy of Education SIG represents those engaged in research and teaching in theoretical and empirical philosophy of education and those seeking to further their understanding of the...
Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the Âé¶¹ÒùÔº Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...
The idea that education should be or become an evidence-based profession has been around for several decades and is still gaining in popularity in many countries around the world. The idea of...