Professor Robert Davis

  • Professor of Religious and Cultural Education (People, Place & Social Change)

telephone: 01413303468
email: Robert.Davis@glasgow.ac.uk

R332 Level 3, St Andrew's Building, Glasgow G3 6NH

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5067-7357

Research interests

Biography

I am Professor of Religious and Cultural Education in the School of Education within the College of Social Sciences.

I am active in Initial Teacher Education (MEduc Primary, MA in Religious and Philosophical Education and PGDE Primary and Secondary), CPD and Postgraduate Teaching and Research supervision, including Masters, PhD and EdD programmes. A large proportion of my work is in research and publishing.

I am also the Editor of Journal of Philosophy of Education (2010-)

Research interests

I have taught, written and broadcast nationally and internationally on religion, postsecularism, literature, music, folklore, education, history of education, sectarianism, childhood studies, environmental education and the development of Catholic education in Scotland and beyond. Teacher education remains central to my interests, encouraging a wider exploration of professional values and professional formation more generally. I served on the National Partnership Group (NPG) for the implementation of Teaching Scotland's Future––the Donaldson Report on the reform of Teacher Education in Scotland as well as its successor body, the National Implementation Board (NIB) and the Shadow Board of the new Scottish College for Educational Leadership (SCEL). I was Convener of the Scottish Teacher Education Committee (STEC) and was also a member of the Education Committee, Council and Executive of the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS).

I am currently engaged in, or have just completed, a number of significant publications projects with a range of colleagues in areas such as the effectiveness of Religious Education, the cultural history of early childhood, the origins of industrial schooling and Scottish children's literature.

Research collaborations

  • British Council/PESGB Seminar Series: Literature, Philosophy and Politics, 2016-17
  • Educational Theory Summer Institute: The Future of the Humanities, Urbana-Champaign, July 2014
  • University of Wuppertal Post-secularism network, 2013
  • KK Leuven Philosophy and History of Education Research Network, 2012-
  • Educational Theory Summer Institute: Government Intervention in Family Life, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, July 2009.
  • AHRC Seminar Series, Institute of Education, London: Changing Discourses of the Parent-Child Relationship, 2008-2009.
  • Visiting Professor, Norwegian Teachers Academy (NLA), Bergen, 2009.
  • Visiting Professor, University of Malmo, 2005
  • Visiting Lecturer, St Patrick's College, Dublin, 2002, 2005.
  • Co-Chair: The Ring Goes Ever On: 50th Anniversary Conference on The Lord of the Rings, Birmingham, 2005
  • Co-Chair: Reasons of the Heart: Myth, Meaning and Education, Edinburgh, 2004
  • 1999-2002: Signs of Change: Christianity and the Arts, 1000-2000. An International ERC Network Collaboration led by the University of Copenhagen (100K)

Publications

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Number of items: 47.

2021

Davis, R. A. (2021) 'Look on my works ye mighty…’: iconoclasm, education and the fate of statues. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55(3), pp. 534-544. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12579)

Davis, R. and Franchi, L. (2021) Catholic education and the idea of curriculum. Journal of Catholic Education, 24(2), pp. 104-119. (doi: 10.15365/joce.2402062021)

Davis, R. A. (2021) Silence, sound and sleep: The experience of lullabies. In: Druker, E., Sundmark, B., Warnqvist, A. and Österlund, M. (eds.) Silence and Silencing in Children's Literature. Series: Studies published by the Swedish institute for children's books, 156. Makadam, pp. 61-86. ISBN 9789170613678

2020

Davis, R. A. , Conroy, J. C. and Clague, J. (2020) Schools as factories: the limits of a metaphor. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54(5), pp. 1471-1488. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12525)

Davis, R. A. (2020) Mother at the source: Romanticism and infant education. In: Veliki, M.D. and Duffy, C. (eds.) Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 91-113. ISBN 9783030504281 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-50429-8_5)

2018

Davis, R. A. (2018) Ethics, epistemology and the post-Humboldtian university. In: Smeyers, P. and Depaepe, M. (eds.) Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding Dynamics. Series: Educational Research, 10. Springer, pp. 11-24. ISBN 9783319739212 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73921-2_2)

Davis, R. A. (2018) The funding of Higher Education: Lessons from Europe's past. In: Smeyers, P. and Depaepe, M. (eds.) Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding Dynamics. Series: Educational Research, 10. Springer, pp. 191-207. ISBN 9783319739212 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73921-2_13)

2017

Davis, R. A. (2017) Mysteries and histories: children and the paradox of religious empowerment. In: Kelen, C. and Sundmark, B. (eds.) Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature: Where Children Rule. Series: Children's literature and culture. Routledge, pp. 43-66. ISBN 9781138931640

2016

Davis, R. A. (2016) A.I. - artificial intelligence: genealogies of the posthuman child. In: Dodd, E. S. and Findley III, C. E. (eds.) Innocence Uncovered: Literary and Theological Perspectives. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 132-146. ISBN 9781472489692

2015

Davis, R. A. (2015) Archiving the source: pasts and futures of the humanities. Educational Theory, 65(6), pp. 617-634. (doi: 10.1111/edth.12138)

Conroy, J.C. , Lundie, D. , Davis, R.A. , Baumfield, V., Barnes, L.P., Gallagher, T., Lowden, K. , Bourque, N. and Wenell, K. (2015) Does Religious Education Work? A Multi-dimensional Investigation [New Paperback Edition with Corrections]. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781474234658

Conroy, J. C. , Davis, R. A. and Enslin, P. (2015) Philosophy as a basis for policy and practice: what confidence can we have in philosophical analysis and argument? In: Smith, R. (ed.) Philosophy of Education II. Series: Major themes in education, 4. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415830133

Davis, R. A. (2015) Hermeneutics of linguistic ethnography: teachers and students losing and finding their voices. In: Smeyers, P., Bridges, D., Burbules, N. C. and Griffiths, M. (eds.) International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research. Series: Springer international handbooks of education. Springer, pp. 1415-1436. ISBN 9789401792813 (doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-9282-0_69)

Davis, R. A. (2015) Postliberal education. Ethics and Education, 10(1), pp. 23-35. (doi: 10.1080/17449642.2014.998024)

McLean Davies, L., Dickson, B. , Rickards, F., Dinham, S., Conroy, J. and Davis, R. (2015) Teaching as a clinical profession: translational practices in initial teacher education – an international perspective. Journal of Education for Teaching, 41(5), pp. 514-528. (doi: 10.1080/02607476.2015.1105537)

2014

Davis, R. A. (2014) Giambattista Vico and the wisdom of teaching. Asia Pacific Education Review, 15(1), pp. 45-53. (doi: 10.1007/s12564-013-9296-3)

Davis, R.A. (2014) Religion, education and the post-secular child. Critical Studies in Education, 55(1), pp. 18-31. (doi: 10.1080/17508487.2014.860042)

2013

Davis, R.A. and Franchi, L. (2013) A Catholic curriculum for the 21st century. International Studies in Catholic Education, 5(1), pp. 36-52. (doi: 10.1080/19422539.2012.754587)

2012

Baumfield, V.M., Conroy, J. , Davis, R. and Lundie, D. (2012) The Delphi method: gathering expert opinion in religious education. British Journal of Religious Education, 34(1), pp. 5-19. (doi: 10.1080/01416200.2011.614740)

2011

Davis, R.A. (2011) Brilliance of a fire: innocence, experience and the theory of childhood. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 45(2), pp. 379-397. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00798.x)

Davis, R. (2011) Mother-child relations and the discourse of maternity. Ethics and Education, 6(2), pp. 125-139. (doi: 10.1080/17449642.2011.622979)

Davis, R. (2011) Robert Owen and Religion. In: Thompson, N. and Williams, C. (eds.) Robert Owen and His Legacy. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 97800708324431

2010

Davis, R. (2010) Government intervention in child-rearing: governing infancy. Educational Theory, 60(3), pp. 285-298. (doi: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2010.00359.x)

Conroy, J. and Davis, R. (2010) Religious Education. In: The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Education. sage: London, pp. 451-467. ISBN 9781847874672

Davis, R. and O'Hagan, F. (2010) Robert Owen. Series: Continuum library of educational thought, 25. Continuum Press: London. ISBN 9781847061041

2009

Coll, R. and Davis, R.A. (2009) Catholic Religious Education in Scotland. In: Keiran, P. and Hession, A. (eds.) Exploring Religious Education: Catholic Religious Education in an Intercultural Europe. Veritas: Dublin, pp. 189-198. ISBN 181847301320

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. (doi: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e6mvsA5vYY0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Evidence+based+policy+What+evidence%3F+What+basis%3F+Whose+policy%3F&ei=jrK8Svm3H434Nanr0fIP#v=onepage&q=&f=false)

Davis, R. (2009) Escaping Through Flames: Halloween as a Christian Festival. In: Foley, M. and O'Donnell, H. (eds.) Trick or Treat: Halloween in a Globalising World. CSP: Newcastle, pp. 28-44. ISBN 1-4438-0153-4

2008

Conroy, J., Davis, R. 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(S1), pp. 165-182. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2008.00631.x)

Conroy, J. and Davis, R. (2008) Citizenship, education and the claims of religious literacy. In: Peters, M., Britton, A. and Blee, H. (eds.) Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy. Sense: Rotterdam, pp. 187-203. ISBN 9789087903732

Davis, R. (2008) Futures of Faith Schools. In: McKinney, S. (ed.) Faith Schools in the Twenty-first Century. Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, pp. 56-67. ISBN 978-1-903765-81-4

2007

Davis, R. and Carr, D. (2007) The lure of evil: exploring moral formation on the dark side of literature and the arts. Journal of the Philosophy of Education, 41(1), pp. 95-112. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00541.x)

Coll, R. and Davis, R. (2007) Faith schools and state education: church-state relations and the development of the 5-14 Religious Education Programme in Scotland. Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 11(1), pp. 67-82.

Davis, R. (2007) Dust, daemons and deicide: Philip Pullman’s theologies of childhood. In: Bradford, C. and Coghlan, V. (eds.) Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood and Children's Literature. Pied Piper Publishing: Lichfield, Staffordshire, pp. 122-135. ISBN 9780955210624

Davis, R. (2007) The works of the female: Mary Magdalene and the return of the Goddess. In: Bowers, B. (ed.) The Da Vinci Code in the Academy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, UK., pp. 1-21. ISBN 9781847181299

O'Hagan, F. and Davis, R. (2007) Forging the compact of church and state in the development of Catholic education in late nineteenth-century Scotland. Innes Review, 58(1), pp. 72-94. (doi: 10.1353/inn.2007.0010)

O'Hagan, F. and Davis, R. (2007) Integrating the study of history into the professional formation of beginning teachers. Professional Studies Review, 3(2), pp. 57-75.

2006

Davis, R. (2006) Seeing everything at once: Myth, freedom and determinism in Alan Garner's The Owl Service and Red Shift. In: Deszcz-Trhubczak, J. and Oziewicz, M. (eds.) Towards or Back to Human Values? Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary Fantasy. Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 227-242. ISBN 9781904303732

Graves, R. (2006) King Jesus ; and, My head! My head! Carcanet Press: London. ISBN 9781857546606

2005

Davis, R. (2005) Music education and cultural identity. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 37(1), pp. 47-65. (doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2005.00097.x)

Davis, R. (Ed.) (2005) Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, Hebrew Myths: the Book of Genesis. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781857546613

2004

Davis, R. (2004) Education, Utopia and the limits of enlightenment. Policy Futures in Education, 1(3), pp. 565-585. (doi: 10.2304/pfie.2003.1.3.8)

Davis, R. (2004) Section Four: Introduction. In: Petersen, N.H., Cluver, C. and Bell, N. (eds.) Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts 1000-2000. Series: Textxet: Studies in comparative literature (43). Rodopi, pp. 235-247. ISBN 9789042009998

2003

Davis, R. (2003) The Black Goddess. In: Firla, I. and Lindop, G. (eds.) Graves and the Goddess: Essays on Robert Graves's The White Goddess. Susquehanna University Press, pp. 99-114. ISBN 9781575910550

Davis, R. (2003) Down sudden vistas: Walter Benjamin and the waning of modernity. In: Peters, M.A., Lankshear, C. and Olssen, M. (eds.) Critical Theory and the Human Condition: Founders and Praxis. Series: Counterpoints (New York, N. Y.) (168). Peter Lang, pp. 36-53. ISBN 9780820451688

2002

Davis, R. (2002) The truth ineffably divine: The loss and recovery of the sacred in Richard Wagner's Parsifal. In: Bruhn, S. (ed.) Voicing the Ineffable: Musical Representations of Religious Experience. Series: Interplay (3). Pendragon Press, pp. 97-133. ISBN 9781576470893

Davis, R. and Conroy, J. (2002) Transgression, transformation and enlightenment: the trickster as poet and teacher. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 34(3), pp. 255-272. (doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2002.tb00303.x)

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Jump to: Articles | Books | Book Sections | Edited Books
Number of items: 47.

Articles

Davis, R. A. (2021) 'Look on my works ye mighty…’: iconoclasm, education and the fate of statues. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 55(3), pp. 534-544. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12579)

Davis, R. and Franchi, L. (2021) Catholic education and the idea of curriculum. Journal of Catholic Education, 24(2), pp. 104-119. (doi: 10.15365/joce.2402062021)

Davis, R. A. , Conroy, J. C. and Clague, J. (2020) Schools as factories: the limits of a metaphor. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54(5), pp. 1471-1488. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12525)

Davis, R. A. (2015) Archiving the source: pasts and futures of the humanities. Educational Theory, 65(6), pp. 617-634. (doi: 10.1111/edth.12138)

Davis, R. A. (2015) Postliberal education. Ethics and Education, 10(1), pp. 23-35. (doi: 10.1080/17449642.2014.998024)

McLean Davies, L., Dickson, B. , Rickards, F., Dinham, S., Conroy, J. and Davis, R. (2015) Teaching as a clinical profession: translational practices in initial teacher education – an international perspective. Journal of Education for Teaching, 41(5), pp. 514-528. (doi: 10.1080/02607476.2015.1105537)

Davis, R. A. (2014) Giambattista Vico and the wisdom of teaching. Asia Pacific Education Review, 15(1), pp. 45-53. (doi: 10.1007/s12564-013-9296-3)

Davis, R.A. (2014) Religion, education and the post-secular child. Critical Studies in Education, 55(1), pp. 18-31. (doi: 10.1080/17508487.2014.860042)

Davis, R.A. and Franchi, L. (2013) A Catholic curriculum for the 21st century. International Studies in Catholic Education, 5(1), pp. 36-52. (doi: 10.1080/19422539.2012.754587)

Baumfield, V.M., Conroy, J. , Davis, R. and Lundie, D. (2012) The Delphi method: gathering expert opinion in religious education. British Journal of Religious Education, 34(1), pp. 5-19. (doi: 10.1080/01416200.2011.614740)

Davis, R.A. (2011) Brilliance of a fire: innocence, experience and the theory of childhood. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 45(2), pp. 379-397. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2011.00798.x)

Davis, R. (2011) Mother-child relations and the discourse of maternity. Ethics and Education, 6(2), pp. 125-139. (doi: 10.1080/17449642.2011.622979)

Davis, R. (2010) Government intervention in child-rearing: governing infancy. Educational Theory, 60(3), pp. 285-298. (doi: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2010.00359.x)

Conroy, J., Davis, R. 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(S1), pp. 165-182. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2008.00631.x)

Davis, R. and Carr, D. (2007) The lure of evil: exploring moral formation on the dark side of literature and the arts. Journal of the Philosophy of Education, 41(1), pp. 95-112. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00541.x)

Coll, R. and Davis, R. (2007) Faith schools and state education: church-state relations and the development of the 5-14 Religious Education Programme in Scotland. Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 11(1), pp. 67-82.

O'Hagan, F. and Davis, R. (2007) Forging the compact of church and state in the development of Catholic education in late nineteenth-century Scotland. Innes Review, 58(1), pp. 72-94. (doi: 10.1353/inn.2007.0010)

O'Hagan, F. and Davis, R. (2007) Integrating the study of history into the professional formation of beginning teachers. Professional Studies Review, 3(2), pp. 57-75.

Davis, R. (2005) Music education and cultural identity. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 37(1), pp. 47-65. (doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2005.00097.x)

Davis, R. (2004) Education, Utopia and the limits of enlightenment. Policy Futures in Education, 1(3), pp. 565-585. (doi: 10.2304/pfie.2003.1.3.8)

Davis, R. and Conroy, J. (2002) Transgression, transformation and enlightenment: the trickster as poet and teacher. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 34(3), pp. 255-272. (doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2002.tb00303.x)

Books

Conroy, J.C. , Lundie, D. , Davis, R.A. , Baumfield, V., Barnes, L.P., Gallagher, T., Lowden, K. , Bourque, N. and Wenell, K. (2015) Does Religious Education Work? A Multi-dimensional Investigation [New Paperback Edition with Corrections]. Bloomsbury: London. ISBN 9781474234658

Davis, R. and O'Hagan, F. (2010) Robert Owen. Series: Continuum library of educational thought, 25. Continuum Press: London. ISBN 9781847061041

Book Sections

Davis, R. A. (2021) Silence, sound and sleep: The experience of lullabies. In: Druker, E., Sundmark, B., Warnqvist, A. and Österlund, M. (eds.) Silence and Silencing in Children's Literature. Series: Studies published by the Swedish institute for children's books, 156. Makadam, pp. 61-86. ISBN 9789170613678

Davis, R. A. (2020) Mother at the source: Romanticism and infant education. In: Veliki, M.D. and Duffy, C. (eds.) Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy. Palgrave Macmillan: Cham, pp. 91-113. ISBN 9783030504281 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-50429-8_5)

Davis, R. A. (2018) Ethics, epistemology and the post-Humboldtian university. In: Smeyers, P. and Depaepe, M. (eds.) Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding Dynamics. Series: Educational Research, 10. Springer, pp. 11-24. ISBN 9783319739212 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73921-2_2)

Davis, R. A. (2018) The funding of Higher Education: Lessons from Europe's past. In: Smeyers, P. and Depaepe, M. (eds.) Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding Dynamics. Series: Educational Research, 10. Springer, pp. 191-207. ISBN 9783319739212 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-73921-2_13)

Davis, R. A. (2017) Mysteries and histories: children and the paradox of religious empowerment. In: Kelen, C. and Sundmark, B. (eds.) Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature: Where Children Rule. Series: Children's literature and culture. Routledge, pp. 43-66. ISBN 9781138931640

Davis, R. A. (2016) A.I. - artificial intelligence: genealogies of the posthuman child. In: Dodd, E. S. and Findley III, C. E. (eds.) Innocence Uncovered: Literary and Theological Perspectives. Routledge: London ; New York, pp. 132-146. ISBN 9781472489692

Conroy, J. C. , Davis, R. A. and Enslin, P. (2015) Philosophy as a basis for policy and practice: what confidence can we have in philosophical analysis and argument? In: Smith, R. (ed.) Philosophy of Education II. Series: Major themes in education, 4. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415830133

Davis, R. A. (2015) Hermeneutics of linguistic ethnography: teachers and students losing and finding their voices. In: Smeyers, P., Bridges, D., Burbules, N. C. and Griffiths, M. (eds.) International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research. Series: Springer international handbooks of education. Springer, pp. 1415-1436. ISBN 9789401792813 (doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-9282-0_69)

Davis, R. (2011) Robert Owen and Religion. In: Thompson, N. and Williams, C. (eds.) Robert Owen and His Legacy. University of Wales Press: Cardiff. ISBN 97800708324431

Conroy, J. and Davis, R. (2010) Religious Education. In: The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Education. sage: London, pp. 451-467. ISBN 9781847874672

Coll, R. and Davis, R.A. (2009) Catholic Religious Education in Scotland. In: Keiran, P. and Hession, A. (eds.) Exploring Religious Education: Catholic Religious Education in an Intercultural Europe. Veritas: Dublin, pp. 189-198. ISBN 181847301320

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. (doi: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e6mvsA5vYY0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Evidence+based+policy+What+evidence%3F+What+basis%3F+Whose+policy%3F&ei=jrK8Svm3H434Nanr0fIP#v=onepage&q=&f=false)

Davis, R. (2009) Escaping Through Flames: Halloween as a Christian Festival. In: Foley, M. and O'Donnell, H. (eds.) Trick or Treat: Halloween in a Globalising World. CSP: Newcastle, pp. 28-44. ISBN 1-4438-0153-4

Conroy, J. and Davis, R. (2008) Citizenship, education and the claims of religious literacy. In: Peters, M., Britton, A. and Blee, H. (eds.) Global Citizenship Education: Philosophy, Theory and Pedagogy. Sense: Rotterdam, pp. 187-203. ISBN 9789087903732

Davis, R. (2008) Futures of Faith Schools. In: McKinney, S. (ed.) Faith Schools in the Twenty-first Century. Dunedin Academic Press: Edinburgh, pp. 56-67. ISBN 978-1-903765-81-4

Davis, R. (2007) Dust, daemons and deicide: Philip Pullman’s theologies of childhood. In: Bradford, C. and Coghlan, V. (eds.) Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood and Children's Literature. Pied Piper Publishing: Lichfield, Staffordshire, pp. 122-135. ISBN 9780955210624

Davis, R. (2007) The works of the female: Mary Magdalene and the return of the Goddess. In: Bowers, B. (ed.) The Da Vinci Code in the Academy. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle, UK., pp. 1-21. ISBN 9781847181299

Davis, R. (2006) Seeing everything at once: Myth, freedom and determinism in Alan Garner's The Owl Service and Red Shift. In: Deszcz-Trhubczak, J. and Oziewicz, M. (eds.) Towards or Back to Human Values? Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of Contemporary Fantasy. Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 227-242. ISBN 9781904303732

Davis, R. (2004) Section Four: Introduction. In: Petersen, N.H., Cluver, C. and Bell, N. (eds.) Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts 1000-2000. Series: Textxet: Studies in comparative literature (43). Rodopi, pp. 235-247. ISBN 9789042009998

Davis, R. (2003) The Black Goddess. In: Firla, I. and Lindop, G. (eds.) Graves and the Goddess: Essays on Robert Graves's The White Goddess. Susquehanna University Press, pp. 99-114. ISBN 9781575910550

Davis, R. (2003) Down sudden vistas: Walter Benjamin and the waning of modernity. In: Peters, M.A., Lankshear, C. and Olssen, M. (eds.) Critical Theory and the Human Condition: Founders and Praxis. Series: Counterpoints (New York, N. Y.) (168). Peter Lang, pp. 36-53. ISBN 9780820451688

Davis, R. (2002) The truth ineffably divine: The loss and recovery of the sacred in Richard Wagner's Parsifal. In: Bruhn, S. (ed.) Voicing the Ineffable: Musical Representations of Religious Experience. Series: Interplay (3). Pendragon Press, pp. 97-133. ISBN 9781576470893

Edited Books

Graves, R. (2006) King Jesus ; and, My head! My head! Carcanet Press: London. ISBN 9781857546606

Davis, R. (Ed.) (2005) Robert Graves and Raphael Patai, Hebrew Myths: the Book of Genesis. Carcanet Press. ISBN 9781857546613

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Grants

Grants and awards

  • Religion and Society Programme: An Analysis of the Aims, Practices & Models of Effectiveness in Religious Education across the UK
    Economic and Social Research Council/Arts and Humanities Research Council
    Co-Investigator
    2007-2010
  • Global Citizenship in Intial Teacher Education
    Department for International Development
    Co-Investigator
    2002-2005
  • Unit for Global Citizenship in Teacher Education
    Department for International Development
    Co-Investigator
    2005-2008
  • Child Protection Training in Scottish Schools
    Scottish Executive Education Department
    Co-Investigator
    2001-2004 (60K)

Supervision

Research Supervision

I welcome applications for masters and doctoral study on many aspects of religion, culture and education––including comparative religion; contemporary religious movements; Catholic education; Religious Education and catechesis; myth, religion and history; religion and literature; children's literature; music and culture; perceptions of childhood; education and critical theory; post-secular philosophy; religion and violence; globalisation and citizenship; postliberalism.

I have recently successfully supervised PhD/EdD dissertations on

  • Liturgy and Catechesis (J.Smith)
  • Conceptions of Childhood in Children's Fantasy Literature (K. McGavock)
  • The Faith Formation of Catholic Teachers (R.Coll)
  • National Identity in Scottish Children's Fiction (M. Farrell)
  • Policy Formation and the Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland (A. Britton; EdD diss)
  • Comparative Study of Religious Education in Scotland and Malawi (Y. Matemba)
  • The Effectiveness of Religious Education in the United Kingdom (D. Lundie)
  • Religious Education and Catechesis (L. Franchi)
  • Hospitality to the Other in Faith-based Schools (D. McGovern)
  • Alchemy and the The Metaphysics of Quality in the Writings of Robert Pirsig (A. McManus)
  • Pastoral Approaches to Critical Pedagogy (P. Petrie)

I am currently supervising dissertations in

  • Theory in TESOL Education
  • Early Years Practitioners' Perceptions of Gender
  • A New Rationale for Catholic Religious Education
  • Scottish Further Education Institutions and Education for Sustainability

Recent PhD and EdD Examination

  • K. O'Brien (Dublin) Education for Citizenship in an Irish Primary School
  • F. McCutcheon (Dublin) School Leadership and Professional Practice
  • David Lines (Auckland) The Work of Music: Nietzsche and Heidegger
  • Yusuke Uno (Edinburgh) Comparative Study of Japanese and Scots Gaelic Lullabies
  • Christopher Nicholson (Northampton) The Enduring Wound: Trauma in the Poetry and Prose of Robert Graves

Additional information

Consultancy and Knowledge Transfer

I ran a highly successful annual CPD Programme on Leadership in Catholic Schools, 2000-2010

CEC-SEED Joint Working Party on Faith and Teaching, 2001-2003

Welsh National Opera Programme Essay for the James Macmillan/Michael Symmons Roberts opera, The Sacrifice, 2007

186 Media, The Write Kit, a Creative Writing resource for secondary schools (2004-2006). Winner of the Content 360 Competition, MIP-TV in Cannes, 2007.

Member of the Development Team, and script and concept consultant, for the BBC Children’s Television programme Tweenies, produced by Tell-Tale Productions (1999-2001).

Academic and professional body membership

I am Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education

I am a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Beliefs and Values

I am a member of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain.

I am a member of the Association for Moral Education.

I am a member of the British Association for Romantic Studies

I am a member of the International Research Society for Children's Literature

I am a member of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture


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