PESGB
@pesgb.bsky.social
The Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) promotes the study, teaching, and application of philosophy of education.
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https://www.philosophy-of-education.org/
Follow for updates on events, grants, JOPE publications, and more.
https://www.philosophy-of-education.org/
A Problem for Cognitive Load Theory—the Distinctively Human Life-form
Derry (2020) challenges both cognitive load theory and discovery learning for overlooking what makes us distinctly human: mediation & normativity.
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Derry (2020) challenges both cognitive load theory and discovery learning for overlooking what makes us distinctly human: mediation & normativity.
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
July 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
A Problem for Cognitive Load Theory—the Distinctively Human Life-form
Derry (2020) challenges both cognitive load theory and discovery learning for overlooking what makes us distinctly human: mediation & normativity.
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Derry (2020) challenges both cognitive load theory and discovery learning for overlooking what makes us distinctly human: mediation & normativity.
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
‼️We are now on LinkedIn‼️
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July 3, 2025 at 6:25 PM
‼️We are now on LinkedIn‼️
Interested in our events and committed to supporting the importance of the philosophy of education?
Show your support by following us on LinkedIn! ⏬
Interested in our events and committed to supporting the importance of the philosophy of education?
Show your support by following us on LinkedIn! ⏬
A very interesting seminar on the ethics of cold calling in educational spaces was presented by Andrew Davies, with contributions from Jan Derry, Daniel Vanello, John Vorhaus, and Paul Standish.
June 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
A very interesting seminar on the ethics of cold calling in educational spaces was presented by Andrew Davies, with contributions from Jan Derry, Daniel Vanello, John Vorhaus, and Paul Standish.
A wonderful talk today by Noemi Bartolucci on the artist’s pursuit of self-knowledge, chaired by Alison Brady and attended by Daniel Vanello, John Vorhaus, and Jan Derry.
May 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A wonderful talk today by Noemi Bartolucci on the artist’s pursuit of self-knowledge, chaired by Alison Brady and attended by Daniel Vanello, John Vorhaus, and Jan Derry.
PESGB PESF Talk – 2 June 2025, 5:30–7:15pm (UK time)
Speaker: Agnes Kosek (University of Central Lancashire, London)
Zoom link: ucl.zoom.us/j/94437548339 | Meeting ID: 944 3754 8339
Speaker: Agnes Kosek (University of Central Lancashire, London)
Zoom link: ucl.zoom.us/j/94437548339 | Meeting ID: 944 3754 8339
May 27, 2025 at 4:16 PM
PESGB PESF Talk – 2 June 2025, 5:30–7:15pm (UK time)
Speaker: Agnes Kosek (University of Central Lancashire, London)
Zoom link: ucl.zoom.us/j/94437548339 | Meeting ID: 944 3754 8339
Speaker: Agnes Kosek (University of Central Lancashire, London)
Zoom link: ucl.zoom.us/j/94437548339 | Meeting ID: 944 3754 8339
May 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM
A brief look into our origins 🔍
May 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A brief look into our origins 🔍
❗What Can Death Teach About Love?⁉️
🗓 Wednesday 28 May | 🕔 5–6.30pm
MacAllister considers whether death education has a place in schools and universities, drawing on the final days of Hume, personal experience, and the film Nowhere Special.
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www.philosophy-of-education.org/events/birmi...
🗓 Wednesday 28 May | 🕔 5–6.30pm
MacAllister considers whether death education has a place in schools and universities, drawing on the final days of Hume, personal experience, and the film Nowhere Special.
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www.philosophy-of-education.org/events/birmi...
May 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
❗What Can Death Teach About Love?⁉️
🗓 Wednesday 28 May | 🕔 5–6.30pm
MacAllister considers whether death education has a place in schools and universities, drawing on the final days of Hume, personal experience, and the film Nowhere Special.
⬇️
www.philosophy-of-education.org/events/birmi...
🗓 Wednesday 28 May | 🕔 5–6.30pm
MacAllister considers whether death education has a place in schools and universities, drawing on the final days of Hume, personal experience, and the film Nowhere Special.
⬇️
www.philosophy-of-education.org/events/birmi...
Does the way psychology talks about ‘inner life’ lead us astray?
Paul Standish turns to Wittgenstein to question psychology’s preoccupation with hidden depths—reminding us that meaning often resides on the surface, in our words and actions.
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Paul Standish turns to Wittgenstein to question psychology’s preoccupation with hidden depths—reminding us that meaning often resides on the surface, in our words and actions.
academic.oup.com/jope/article...
May 12, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Does the way psychology talks about ‘inner life’ lead us astray?
Paul Standish turns to Wittgenstein to question psychology’s preoccupation with hidden depths—reminding us that meaning often resides on the surface, in our words and actions.
academic.oup.com/jope/article...
Paul Standish turns to Wittgenstein to question psychology’s preoccupation with hidden depths—reminding us that meaning often resides on the surface, in our words and actions.
academic.oup.com/jope/article...
New PESF Seminar ❗️
16 May 2025, 9:00–10:45am (UK)
Dr Lin Ma (Renmin University of China)
Heidegger’s “Conversations” with the Zhuangzi
How did Heidegger engage Zhuangzi’s parables? Join us to explore poetic-philosophical dialogue & the “unneeded.”
🔗Zoom meeting ID: 967 2853 4140
Passcode: 702305
16 May 2025, 9:00–10:45am (UK)
Dr Lin Ma (Renmin University of China)
Heidegger’s “Conversations” with the Zhuangzi
How did Heidegger engage Zhuangzi’s parables? Join us to explore poetic-philosophical dialogue & the “unneeded.”
🔗Zoom meeting ID: 967 2853 4140
Passcode: 702305
May 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
New PESF Seminar ❗️
16 May 2025, 9:00–10:45am (UK)
Dr Lin Ma (Renmin University of China)
Heidegger’s “Conversations” with the Zhuangzi
How did Heidegger engage Zhuangzi’s parables? Join us to explore poetic-philosophical dialogue & the “unneeded.”
🔗Zoom meeting ID: 967 2853 4140
Passcode: 702305
16 May 2025, 9:00–10:45am (UK)
Dr Lin Ma (Renmin University of China)
Heidegger’s “Conversations” with the Zhuangzi
How did Heidegger engage Zhuangzi’s parables? Join us to explore poetic-philosophical dialogue & the “unneeded.”
🔗Zoom meeting ID: 967 2853 4140
Passcode: 702305
New❗️JOPE article❗️📄
Flourishing as an Educational Aim:
The Case for School Health Education
by Michael J. Reiss | Published 6 May 2025
How might school health education change if we took flourishing seriously as an aim of education?
Read more below
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Flourishing as an Educational Aim:
The Case for School Health Education
by Michael J. Reiss | Published 6 May 2025
How might school health education change if we took flourishing seriously as an aim of education?
Read more below
⬇️
academic.oup.com/jope/advance...
May 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
New❗️JOPE article❗️📄
Flourishing as an Educational Aim:
The Case for School Health Education
by Michael J. Reiss | Published 6 May 2025
How might school health education change if we took flourishing seriously as an aim of education?
Read more below
⬇️
academic.oup.com/jope/advance...
Flourishing as an Educational Aim:
The Case for School Health Education
by Michael J. Reiss | Published 6 May 2025
How might school health education change if we took flourishing seriously as an aim of education?
Read more below
⬇️
academic.oup.com/jope/advance...
✨Upcoming Event – See Below ⬇️
May 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
✨Upcoming Event – See Below ⬇️
UCL IOE / PESGB LDN Branch Seminar
Wednesday 7 May, 5:30–7:15pm (Zoom Only)
David Rudrum (Huddersfield):
Prolegomenon to a Pedagogy of the Oppressor
On Karl Jaspers & collective guilt in post-Nazi Germany—what can education do after ideology collapses?
Join us⬇️
us02web.zoom.us/j/81813506541
Wednesday 7 May, 5:30–7:15pm (Zoom Only)
David Rudrum (Huddersfield):
Prolegomenon to a Pedagogy of the Oppressor
On Karl Jaspers & collective guilt in post-Nazi Germany—what can education do after ideology collapses?
Join us⬇️
us02web.zoom.us/j/81813506541
May 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
UCL IOE / PESGB LDN Branch Seminar
Wednesday 7 May, 5:30–7:15pm (Zoom Only)
David Rudrum (Huddersfield):
Prolegomenon to a Pedagogy of the Oppressor
On Karl Jaspers & collective guilt in post-Nazi Germany—what can education do after ideology collapses?
Join us⬇️
us02web.zoom.us/j/81813506541
Wednesday 7 May, 5:30–7:15pm (Zoom Only)
David Rudrum (Huddersfield):
Prolegomenon to a Pedagogy of the Oppressor
On Karl Jaspers & collective guilt in post-Nazi Germany—what can education do after ideology collapses?
Join us⬇️
us02web.zoom.us/j/81813506541
In Education for Metaphysical Animals, David Bakhurst explores the enduring legacy of the ‘Wartime Quartet’—Anscombe, Murdoch, Foot, and Midgley—and their challenge to Oxford moral philosophy.
Read here:
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Read here:
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May 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In Education for Metaphysical Animals, David Bakhurst explores the enduring legacy of the ‘Wartime Quartet’—Anscombe, Murdoch, Foot, and Midgley—and their challenge to Oxford moral philosophy.
Read here:
academic.oup.com/jope/article...
Read here:
academic.oup.com/jope/article...
Education For All: The Legacy of Professor Richard Pring
Join us on Friday 9 May, 9.30am–3pm at the University of Oxford for a memorial symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Professor Richard Pring.
RSVP by 5 May – places limited. ⬇️
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Join us on Friday 9 May, 9.30am–3pm at the University of Oxford for a memorial symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Professor Richard Pring.
RSVP by 5 May – places limited. ⬇️
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
May 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Education For All: The Legacy of Professor Richard Pring
Join us on Friday 9 May, 9.30am–3pm at the University of Oxford for a memorial symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Professor Richard Pring.
RSVP by 5 May – places limited. ⬇️
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Join us on Friday 9 May, 9.30am–3pm at the University of Oxford for a memorial symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Professor Richard Pring.
RSVP by 5 May – places limited. ⬇️
forms.office.com/pages/respon...
What if childhood is not a stage—but a site of entangled becoming?
Join us for this thought-provoking PESF talk.
Please bring art materials—paper, pens, string, leaves, or anything you have to hand. ✨
Thu 8 May 2025 | 5:30–7:15 PM (UK)
Zoom: ucl.zoom.us/j/9427471764...
Join us for this thought-provoking PESF talk.
Please bring art materials—paper, pens, string, leaves, or anything you have to hand. ✨
Thu 8 May 2025 | 5:30–7:15 PM (UK)
Zoom: ucl.zoom.us/j/9427471764...
May 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
What if childhood is not a stage—but a site of entangled becoming?
Join us for this thought-provoking PESF talk.
Please bring art materials—paper, pens, string, leaves, or anything you have to hand. ✨
Thu 8 May 2025 | 5:30–7:15 PM (UK)
Zoom: ucl.zoom.us/j/9427471764...
Join us for this thought-provoking PESF talk.
Please bring art materials—paper, pens, string, leaves, or anything you have to hand. ✨
Thu 8 May 2025 | 5:30–7:15 PM (UK)
Zoom: ucl.zoom.us/j/9427471764...
What grounds moral personhood?
In ‘Moral Sensitivity: The Central Question of Moral Education’, Roger Marples challenges the idea that moral life is merely rule-following.
Read more below👇 :
academic.oup.com/jope/article...
In ‘Moral Sensitivity: The Central Question of Moral Education’, Roger Marples challenges the idea that moral life is merely rule-following.
Read more below👇 :
academic.oup.com/jope/article...
May 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
What grounds moral personhood?
In ‘Moral Sensitivity: The Central Question of Moral Education’, Roger Marples challenges the idea that moral life is merely rule-following.
Read more below👇 :
academic.oup.com/jope/article...
In ‘Moral Sensitivity: The Central Question of Moral Education’, Roger Marples challenges the idea that moral life is merely rule-following.
Read more below👇 :
academic.oup.com/jope/article...
A rich and thought-provoking session yesterday with Fadia Dakka, chaired by Alison Brady and Daniel Vanello. Grateful for their insightful contributions and the presence of Paul Standish, Oliver Belas, Qasir Shah, and Roger Marples—a truly stimulating exchange of ideas.
April 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
A rich and thought-provoking session yesterday with Fadia Dakka, chaired by Alison Brady and Daniel Vanello. Grateful for their insightful contributions and the presence of Paul Standish, Oliver Belas, Qasir Shah, and Roger Marples—a truly stimulating exchange of ideas.
How should civic education navigate collective identity and individual autonomy?
Drawing on Taiwan’s political development, Cheng-Hsi Chien reconsiders liberalism, national identity, and the civic risks of patriotic discourse.
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Drawing on Taiwan’s political development, Cheng-Hsi Chien reconsiders liberalism, national identity, and the civic risks of patriotic discourse.
Read more ⬇️
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April 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
How should civic education navigate collective identity and individual autonomy?
Drawing on Taiwan’s political development, Cheng-Hsi Chien reconsiders liberalism, national identity, and the civic risks of patriotic discourse.
Read more ⬇️
academic.oup.com/jope/advance...
Drawing on Taiwan’s political development, Cheng-Hsi Chien reconsiders liberalism, national identity, and the civic risks of patriotic discourse.
Read more ⬇️
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📣 PESGB Seminar Series | Philosophies of English Studies: Past, Present & Future
🗓️ Seminar 3: Disciplinary Identities
📍 17 September 2025
🎤 Furzeen Ahmed, Jan Derry, John Yandell
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.✨
🔗 Register by 3 September:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
🗓️ Seminar 3: Disciplinary Identities
📍 17 September 2025
🎤 Furzeen Ahmed, Jan Derry, John Yandell
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.✨
🔗 Register by 3 September:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
April 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
📣 PESGB Seminar Series | Philosophies of English Studies: Past, Present & Future
🗓️ Seminar 3: Disciplinary Identities
📍 17 September 2025
🎤 Furzeen Ahmed, Jan Derry, John Yandell
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.✨
🔗 Register by 3 September:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
🗓️ Seminar 3: Disciplinary Identities
📍 17 September 2025
🎤 Furzeen Ahmed, Jan Derry, John Yandell
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.✨
🔗 Register by 3 September:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
📣 PESGB Seminar Series | Philosophies of English Studies: Past, Present & Future
Seminar 2: The Political Landscape
18 June 2025 | 10:00–16:00
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.✨
Please register below⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
Seminar 2: The Political Landscape
18 June 2025 | 10:00–16:00
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.✨
Please register below⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
April 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
📣 PESGB Seminar Series | Philosophies of English Studies: Past, Present & Future
Seminar 2: The Political Landscape
18 June 2025 | 10:00–16:00
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.✨
Please register below⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
Seminar 2: The Political Landscape
18 June 2025 | 10:00–16:00
Lunch and refreshments will be provided.✨
Please register below⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
📢 Philosophies of English Studies: Past, Present & Future
Join us at the University of Bedfordshire (Bedford campus) for:
🗓️ Seminar 1: Aesthetic & Ethical Dimensions
📍 26 March 2025
🎤 Julia Bell · Robert Eaglestone · Áine Mahon
🔗 Register by 12 March⬇️:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
Join us at the University of Bedfordshire (Bedford campus) for:
🗓️ Seminar 1: Aesthetic & Ethical Dimensions
📍 26 March 2025
🎤 Julia Bell · Robert Eaglestone · Áine Mahon
🔗 Register by 12 March⬇️:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
April 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
📢 Philosophies of English Studies: Past, Present & Future
Join us at the University of Bedfordshire (Bedford campus) for:
🗓️ Seminar 1: Aesthetic & Ethical Dimensions
📍 26 March 2025
🎤 Julia Bell · Robert Eaglestone · Áine Mahon
🔗 Register by 12 March⬇️:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...
Join us at the University of Bedfordshire (Bedford campus) for:
🗓️ Seminar 1: Aesthetic & Ethical Dimensions
📍 26 March 2025
🎤 Julia Bell · Robert Eaglestone · Áine Mahon
🔗 Register by 12 March⬇️:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/philosophi...