Journal of Philosophy of Education

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Philosophy of Education is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
‘Pursuing rational public defence’: Paul Hirst on teacher education38
‘Pointing the way’: Alex Bloom and A.S. Neill on the enduring necessity and enacted possibility of radical democratic education as ‘a method of life’17
Inclusion, democracy, and philosophy of education: Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid's Democratic education as inclusion17
The global relevance of Tagore’s cosmopolitan educational philosophy for social justice in a post-Westphalian world17
A direct approach to civic formation that preserves the spirit of pure liberal education12
Situatedness and distantiation: education in a time of ecological and climate crises11
Education, epistemic justice, and truthfulness: Miranda Fricker interviewed by A. C. Nikolaidis and Winston C. Thompson11
Education for metaphysical animals9
Teaching evolution in schools: a thin comprehensive liberal approach9
Decolonizing environmental education: celebrating epistemological diversity through integrating traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge in Oman9
Vocational guidance in general and vocational education schools in Germany: The relevance of informed choice for successful vocational education and the legacy of Aloys Fischer9
Towards a conceptualization of Computational Thinking as situated9
Democracy and schooling: The paradox of co-operative schools in a neoliberal age?8
Strolling to Nothingness: Japanese tea gardens and the initiation of Bildung8
Gender diversities and sex education8
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Treading the narrow path—rethinking democratic education in times of polarization7
Epistemic injustice through transformative learning7
A reflection on the teacher education curriculum and the decolonizing agenda in England7
The topicality of hermeneutics in music education7
Consent and mutuality in sex education7
Fulfilment: Crisis, discontinuity and the dark side of education6
Towards a relevant African philosophy of education6
Reimagining Ethiopia: philosophy education as a tool for overcoming ethnic divisions6
Empty education: a dialogue of Nishitani and Rancière6
‘The unbearable surplus of being human’: Happiness, virtues and the delegitimisation of the negative6
Experimental literature and post-critique: reflections on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities6
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Flourishing as an aim of higher education: exploring the aspirations and challenges of the educational philosophy of the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH)5
School as a place for Bildung and flourishing5
Seeing and saying5
The spiralling life of Sámi children: whirls of organism and Indigenous relational philosophies5
Biesta’s world-centred education: subjectification revisited?5
Language games in conversation: the ordinary as a site of criticism5
The epistemologies of the South and the future of the university5
On Large Language Models’ capacity to replace human teachers: a lesson from the Mahabharata5
Redeeming education after progress: composing variations as a way out of innovation tyrannies5
Defending well-being as an educational aim: insights from the capability approach4
Walden in Tokyo4
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Nice but not necessary? Reflections on the role of the arts in Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World4
A democratic school: Teacher reconciliation, child-centred dialogue and emergent democracy4
An untimely vocation: Gadamer’s ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf. Über den Ruf und Beruf der Wissenschaft in unserer Zeit’ (1943)4
Teaching as rooted cosmopolitans: towards justice-oriented internationalization in higher education4
Stanley Cavell in Caracas: Excerpts from seminars and conversations with Victor J. Krebs and Maria Elena Ramos4
Care ethics, needs-recognition, and teaching encounters4
Philosophical silences: race, gender, disability, and philosophical practice4
Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance’ and political self-education4
Back to Socrates: on the significance of analogue pedagogy in the age of content4
Hannah Arendt and the post-truth era: rethinking political education4
A celebration of the writing and professional work of Paul Hirst: an introduction3
Autonomy and critique in the goal-oriented university: the paradox of teaching reflexivity3
Introduction to the suite: violence against women and girls and the education of voice3
Conceptualizing distributive justice in education: a complexity theory perspective3
Assessing a touchy subject: The problem of evaluating sex education then and now3
The implicit epistemology ofWhite Fragility3
The regenerative liminalities of Global Citizenship Education3
Education as site: challenges to evental learning in the ontological turn3
Subjects, disciplines, and practices3
Children’s literature and philosophy: comments on Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher3
The Right to Higher Education: A Political Theory3
Academic Othering and the problem of I-centred philosophy of teaching3
A different sense of place: care and curation in the university3
Stanley Cavell interviewed by Naoko Saito3
Re-reading Kerschensteiner today: Doing VET in German vocational schools—A search for traces3
Education for individual fulfilment as social: grappling with obstructions to growth3
Should teachers use Platonic or Aristotelian dialogues for the moral education of young people?3
Paul Hirst, education and epistemic injustice3
Lost Japan: focusing on the problems of globalism and nationalism in moral education3
Tillson on religious initiation3
Bildung and the significance of place: an overview3
Common sense and critical pedagogy2
The role of the philosopher of education in the task of decoloniality2
Discovering disagreement: The story of an undergraduate Wartime Quartet reading group2
Paul Hirst and religious education’s curriculum question: or how Hirst never thought religion was a form of knowledge at all2
The problem with faith-based carve-outs: RSE policy, religion and educational goods2
Reconsidering ritual in education2
Friendship, markets, and companionate robots for children2
‘Your days are over Casanova’: sexual violence, education and the ethics of literature in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace2
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and Bildungsroman literature: a guidebook for journeying home, seeing places anew, and encountering Land-based education2
Educating Character Through the Arts2
Philosophy of Gurukula education: Personal education and practical democracy2
Questioning progress in times of ‘no future’: an editorial introduction to the suite2
Enriching and extending the ecological perspective on teacher agency2
Cavell and the thought of other cultures: an introduction2
Distributive values and disadvantaged potential high achievers2
Activity Theory—An Introduction2
Resisting policing in higher education: wilful White ignorance in the campus safety debate2
Creating and sustaining democratic spaces in education2
Hitting bedrock: from multiculturalism to political education and self-knowledge2
Metaphilosophical myopia and the ideal of expansive pluralism2
Verifying the efficacy of eco-pedagogies during a climate crisis: using Wittgenstein's post-foundationalism in defence of the shallow ground for arts-bas2
Between Butes and the digital player: paradoxes of Eros2
Corrections for ‘The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education’ by Suissa & Sullivan (2021)2
Does Mills’ epistemology suggest a hermeneutic injustice of White Afroscepticism?2
Sex ed for social justice: Using principles of hip-hop–based education to rethink school-based sex education2
Introduction to the Suite: Political education for human transformation2
Rancière, music, and the musicality of teaching2
A moral analysis of educational harm and student resistance2
Autonomy, rationality, and religious initiation: replies to Hand, Wareham, Gheaus, Lewin, and Clayton2
Protests’ children: reflections on children’s participation in political demonstrations2
Paul Hirst, liberal education and the postcolonial project2
Correction to ‘The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education’ by Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan (2021)2
Crises of acknowledgement: oblique actions and ominous verbs2
Founding German vocational education: Kerschensteiner, Spranger and Fischer as key figures in the classical German VET theory2
Kairos and phronesis in teaching well2
Paulo Freire: Philosophy, Pedagogy and Practice2
Political anger, affective injustice, and civic education2
Reframing inclusion. Analysis of the promises and limitations of Rancière’s work for inclusive education2
Practical rationality in education: beyond the Hirst–Carr debate2
Justified belief as an epistemic aim of education1
‘Don’t educate me—move me!’ Why we need art and artists (especially films and filmmakers) to love education into existence1
Epistemic injustice: complicity and promise in education1
On the epistemic urgency of decolonizing the school curriculum: a reflection1
Multicultural education for transnational democratic citizenship1
On Philip Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education1
The languages we speak and the empires we embrace: addressing decolonization through the gaze of the empire1
Religious influence and its protection1
Banking and debunking: applying Freirean Theory to the educational challenges of conspiracy culture1
Testimonial justice and the voluntarism problem: the virtue of just acceptance1
Introduction to the suite: The Child as Reader, Philosopher, and Social Critic: Evaluating the Vision of Gareth B. Matthews1
Cultural melancholy and moral perfectionism in Robles Godoy’s The Green Wall1
Challenging persistent rape myths: an interview with Joanna Bourke1
‘Dwelling’ as an educational concept1
Studying with a teacher: education beyond the logic of progress1
Plato’s legacy to education: addressing two misunderstandings1
Education and populism: constructing a shared ontology through Laclau and Lacan1
An error of punishment defences in the context of schooling1
Langer and the claim for the social value of art1
Alternative(s): Better or just different?1
Authority: On the revaluation of a value1
Learning Andy Clark & David Chalmers’ ‘The Extended Mind’ through Christopher Nolan’s Memento1
Enabling children to learn from religions whilst respecting their rights: against monopolies of influence1
Is there a place for friendship in education? Thinking with Arendt on friendship, politics, and education1
The legitimation of school-based Bildung in the context of vocational education and training: The legacy of Eduard Spranger1
Correction to: Flourishing as an aim of higher education: exploring the aspirations and challenges of the educational philosophy of the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH)1
Preface1
Learning after progress? Isabelle Stengers, artificial learning, and the future as problem1
Lessons in love: Countering student belief in romantic love myths1
Balance: Benefit or bromide?1
Why not replace people with machines? Exploring Artificial Intelligence’s (in)capacity for education as subjectification1
The ordinary in Cavell, Zen, and Nishida: with reference to the quotidian in French, Japanese, and American cinema1
Obedience1
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Liberal democratic justice and identity politics in education: the structural theory of obligation as an approach to anti-racist education1
Teaching, learning and philosophising as metaphysical animals: Introduction1
Critical thinking: stress-testing competing reasons in the practical domain1
The rationale for the teaching of literature: soundings in Paul Hirst's epistemology1
Bildung and the moral topography of the self1
Revisiting the role of values in evidence-based education1
Between the categorial and the normative: challenges within contemporary analytic philosophy of education1
Who is my neighbour? Scepticism and the claims of alterity1
Feeling at home: Bildung and the clash between nostalgic and universal values: singing together in a plural world1
The ethics of influence in state-regulated schools: Tillson v. Rawls1
The school workshop as the basis for the continuation school (1908)1
Indoctrination1
Ignorance: Aesthetic unlearning1
Platonic character education1
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Philosophies of education and their futures in South Africa1
Beyond human flourishing: an argument for ecological education1
Hirst on educational theory1
Lost in wonder: a response to Schinkel’s ‘deep’ wonder in education1
Decolonizing higher education: the university in the new age of Empire1
Teaching good sex: The limits of consent and the role of the virtues1
The provenance of the forms of knowledge thesis1
Hirst on rational moral education1
Can education liberate us? Reframing an old question1
Does a religious universalism haunt secular religious education?1
Imagining sustainable worlds: the potential of mythical stories in environmental education1
Finding one’s way: a response to the idea of an education after progress1
Postcritical discourse analysis: examining the case of the student well-being discourse1
Teaching and knowledge: uneasy bedfellows1
The rejection of rational autonomy as an educational ideal? In search of a philosophical justification for radical change in Paul Hirst’s thinking1
From critical thinking to criticality and back again1
Resisting dehumanization—exploring nonideal human rights education1
‘We should all in part be naturalists’: critical environmental philosophy and environmental education policy1
The libidinal body in community-based education: Evidence of somaesthetics from Borneo's Dayaknese communities1
Re-educating thinking: philosophy, education, and pragmatism1
Bildung, hermeneutics, divergence: learning in the dystopian university1
Bottom Set Citizen: Ability Grouping in Schools—Meritocracy’s Undeserving1
Otherwise than teaching by artificial intelligence1
Empowering young voices through performing poetry1
Emile’s inquiry-based science education1
The OECD’s new discourse of curriculum reform: student agency, competency, colonization, and translation1
Democratic practice and curriculum objectives: Paul Hirst’s visit to Summerhill1
Was Paul Hirst ever a Deweyan?1
The paradox of epistemic ability profiling1
Epistemological flashpoints in China’s ‘person-making’ education with reinvoked cultural discourses: lideshuren as an example1
Decolonizing the curriculum: philosophical perspectives—an introduction1
The Trickster archetype: education to stupefy1
Towards an educational case for social and political issues in the geography curriculum1
Paul Hirst as a liminal figure and modernizing moralist1
Teaching as an act: Lacan and philosophy of education1
Beyond virtue and vice: A return to uncertainty1
Pedagogic obligations towards a decolonial and contextually responsive approach to teaching philosophy in South Africa1
The economic and epistemic division of labour: on Philip Kitcher’s The Main Enterprise of the World1
‘A Summerhill in Scotland’? Experiences of freedom and community at Kilquhanity School (1940–1996)1
Epistemic injustice in education: exploring structural approaches, envisioning structural remedies1
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