Prof Penny Enslin

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Professor (Social Justice Place and Lifelong Education)

telephone: 01413303238
email: Penny.Enslin@glasgow.ac.uk

Research interests

Education for democratic citizenship; gender and education; liberalism; higher education; deliberative democracy; cosmopolitanism; peace education; social justice.

My central intellectual project is a defence of liberal autonomy as a key aim of education. My teaching and research interests lie in the tradition of analytic philosophy of education, with a particular interest in normative political philosophy. I have pursued these interests mainly in the following intertwined threads:

a defence of the crucial relevance of liberal theory to understanding education;
defending liberal theory against attacks from Marxism, Fundamental Pedagogics (the brand of theorizing that was promoted mainly in the Afrikaans medium universities in South Africa under apartheid, and whose effects linger still in educational discourse in that country), postmodernism, and those multiculturalists and Africanists who oppose liberalism;
liberal feminism, especially in relation to education for democratic citizenship;
a critique of nation building as an aim of education;
deliberative democracy and education for cosmopolitan citizenship;

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Number of items: 34.

2012

Enslin, P., and Tjiattas, M. (2012) Democratic inclusion and lifelong learning in a globalising world. In: Aspin, D.N., Chapman, J., Evans, K. and Bagnall, R. (eds.) Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Series: Springer International Handbooks of Education (26). Springer. ISBN 9789400723597 (In Press)

Enslin, P., and Tjiattas, M. (2012) Education, justice and the limits of statism. In: Galea, S. and Mercieca, D. (eds.) My Teaching, My Philosophy. A Lifelong Engagement with Education. Taylor & Francis, Abingdon. (In Press)

2011

Enslin, P. (2011) Education for global citizenship: the cosmopolitan and the patriotic. Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, 10 (2-3). ISSN 1357-4019

Enslin, P. (2011) Liberalism, Education and Schooling - By T.H. McLaughlin. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43 (7). pp. 788-790. ISSN 0013-1857 (doi:10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00660.x)

Enslin, P. (2011) 'Liberalism, Education and Schooling' - by T. H. McLaughlin. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43 (7). pp. 788-790. ISSN 0013-1857 (doi:10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00660.x)

Enslin, P. (2011) Social justice and the future of education. In: McMahon, M., Forde, C. and Martin, M. (eds.) Contemporary Issues in Learning and Teaching. Sage, London.

2010

Enslin, P., and Hedge, N. (2010) Inclusion and diversity. In: Bailey, R., Barrow, R., Carr, D. and McCarthy, C. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Education. SAGE, London, pp. 385-400.

Enslin, P., and Hedge, N. (2010) A good global neighbour: Scotland, Malawi and global citizenship. Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 6 (1). pp. 91-105. ISSN 1751-1917 (doi:10.1386/ctl.6.1.91_1)

2009

Conroy, J.C., Davis, R.A. , and Enslin, P. (2009) Philosophy as a Basis for Policy and Practice: What Confidence Can We Have in Philosophical Analysis and Argument. In: Bridges, D., Smeyers, P. and Smith, R. (eds.) Evidence based policy: What evidence? What basis? Whose policy? Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 157-175.

Enslin, P, and Tjiattas, M (2009) Between universalism and universality: A rejoinder to Sharon Todd. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 42 (4).

Enslin, P, and Tjiattas, M (2009) Philosophy of education and the gigantic affront of universalism. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 43 (1). pp. 2-17.

Hedge, N., and Enslin, P. (2009) A good global neighbour? In: The Sixteenth International Conference on Learning, 1-4 July 2009, University of Barcelona, Spain. (Unpublished)

Horsthemke, K, and Enslin, P (2009) African philosophy of education: The price of unchallengeability. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 28 (3). pp. 209-222.

2008

Conroy, J, Davis, RA , and Enslin, P (2008) Philosophy as a Basis for Policy and Practice: What Confidence Can We Have in Philosophical Analysis and Argument? Journal of Philosophy of Education, 42 (2). pp. 165-182.

Enslin, P, and Hedge, Nicki (2008) International students, export earnings and the demands of global justice. Ethics and Education, 3 (2). pp. 105-117.

Enslin, P. (2008) Between Europe and Africa: against regionalism in citizenship education. In: Peters, M.A., Britton, A. and Blee, H. (eds.) Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy. Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, pp. 491-501. ISBN 9789087903732

Enslin, P., and Tjiattas, M. (2008) Philosophy of education and the gigantic affront of universalism. In: Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, 28-30 Mar 2008, Oxford, UK.

2007

Coughlan, F., Divala, P., Enslin, P. , Kissack, M., and Mathebula, T. (2007) Systemic governance, public accountability and institutional autonomy. In: Review of Higher Education in South Africa. Council on Higher Education, Pretoria. ISBN 9781919856612

Enslin, P. (2007) How can communities connect? Negotiating difference in an age of globalization. Scottish Educational Review, 39 (2). pp. 118-126. ISSN 0141-9072

2006

Enslin, P. (2006) Democracy, social justice and education: feminist strategies in a globalising world. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 38 (1). pp. 57-67. ISSN 0013-1857 (doi:10.1111/j.1469-5812.2006.00174.x)

Enslin, P., Button, A., Chakane, M., de Groot, M., and Dison, L. (2006) Assessing academic potential for university admission: the biographical questionnaire. South African Journal of Higher Education, 20 (4). pp. 433-448. ISSN 1011-3487

Enslin, P., and Tjiattas, M. (2006) Educating for a just world without gender. Theory and Research in Education, 4 (1). pp. 41-68. ISSN 0305-0068 (doi:10.1177/1477878506060682)

2005

Horsthemke, K., and Enslin, P. (2005) Is there a distinctly and uniquely African philosophy of education? In: Waghid, Y. (ed.) African(a) Philosophy and Education: Reconstructions and Deconstructions. Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, pp. 54-75. ISBN 9780620340779