Dr Philip Tonner

Senior Lecturer (School of Education)

telephone: 0141 330 8700
email: Philip.Tonner@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

I joined the School of Education at the University of Glasgow in August 2019.

My educational background is in philosophy, anthropological archaeology, and education. I hold a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow (2006), a DPhil in Anthropological Archaeology, from the University of Oxford (2016), a PGDE in Religious Education (2006) from the University of Strathclyde, and a PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, also from the University of Strathclyde (2018).

I have taught at a number of Universities (4) and secondary schools (8) in the UK. I was an Honorary Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 2006-2011, and an Honorary Lecturer in Humanities, also at the University of Glasgow, from 2009-2011. From 2008-2011 I worked for Glasgow Museums as Research Support Officer in their Research Section. I was an Associate Lecturer at the Open University from 2007-2011 and in June 2019 I was an Invited Visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, at the University of Macau.

I hold Fellowships of the Higher Education Academy and The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Research interests

My current work explores questions at the intersection of education, philosophy, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and the interpretation of fairy tales.

Publications

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Number of items: 65.

2026

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part Five [blog post]. [Website]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part Four [blog post]. [Website]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part Three [blog post]. [Website]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part Two [blog post]. [Website]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part One [blog post]. [Website]

2025

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385, Odena, Oscar ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6009-7842, Dickson, Joshua, Jaap, Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6250-6910, Pincock, Dougie and Potter, Roslyn (2025) Wayfarers: confronting the past through traditional music in schools. International Journal of Music Education, 43(3), pp. 534-547. (doi: 10.1177/02557614231205307)

Harrison, Victoria S. and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2025) Philosophical perspectives on the educational dimensions of museums. In: McColl, Margaret, Brown, Pete, Delaney, Michelle, Borromäus Murr, Karl and Zipsane, Henrik (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Museum and Heritage Education. Series: Routledge handbooks on museums, galleries and heritage. Routledge: London, pp. 36-48. ISBN 9781032480985 (doi: 10.4324/9781003462088-5)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2025) John Duns Scotus, Franciscan theologian philosopher, a thinker for our times: in place of a biography. Innes Review, 76(1), pp. 65-91. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2025.0378)

2024

Gibb, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6999-6227 and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2024) Introduction. In: Ingold, Tim, Gibb, Robert, Tonner, Philip and Malara, Diego Maria (eds.) Conversations with Tim Ingold: Anthropology, Education and Life. Scottish Universities Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781917341028 (doi: 10.62637/sup.cmnz6231)

Ingold, Tim, Gibb, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6999-6227, Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Malara, Diego Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3215-9940 (2024) Conversations with Tim Ingold: Anthropology, Education and Life. Scottish Universities Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781917341028 (doi: 10.62637/sup.cmnz6231)

Wilson, Samantha, Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Brophy, Kenneth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2315-7110 (2024) Bringing archaeology into religious and moral education: a case study from Scotland. Journal of Archaeology and Education, 8(2), 1.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Cowie, Ashley (2024) Heidegger, Dwelling and Prehistoric Metaphysics. [Audio]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2024) Kenneth White, dwelling and nomadism: a geopoetic education for the twenty-first century. Journal of Scottish Thought, 13(1), pp. 57-69. (doi: 10.57132/jst.133)

2023

Anderson, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-7413 and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2023) A post-critical pedagogy for sustainability: engaging the head, heart, and hands. Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2(3), pp. 163-172. (doi: 10.56230/osotl.54)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Delafield-Butt, Jonathan (2023) Fairy tales as anticipatory narratives. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 30(5), pp. 107-115. (doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2025.2554193)

2022

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2022) Realigning Curricula for the Future: Philosophy & Theology and Sustainability. [Audio]

Anderson, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9084-7413, Dunkley, Ria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0238-7344 and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2022) Callipolis! – Philosophy, Education, and the City. Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival 2022, Glasgow, Scotland, 12-18 Sep 2022.

Kenklies, Karsten, Lewin, David and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (Eds.) (2022) Beyond Virtue and Vice: Education for a Darker Age. Journal of Philosophy of Education. 56(4) [Edited Journal]

Kenklies, Karsten, Michael Lewin, David and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2022) Beyond virtue and vice: a return to uncertainty. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56(4), pp. 497-501. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12706)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2022) Authority: on the revaluation of a value. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56(4), pp. 593-600. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12701)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2022) Kenneth White, Nomadism and Geopoetics. Stravaig #11: Geopoetics and the Climate Crisis, pp. 16-20.

2021

Barr, Andrew Redmond and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2021) Reinterpreting the Declaration of Arbroath: scotus, freedom and questions for today's world. Thinking Without Borders, 2 December 2021.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2021) Philip Tonner: celebrating the lives of those we love. [Audio]

Beck, Anna, Wall, Kate, Firth, Jonathan, Arnott, Lorna and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2021) Developing a Practitioner Enquiry Approach to School University Research Partnership. European Conference on Educational Research (ECER 2021), Online, 6-10 Sept 2021.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Erdoğan, Gözde (2021) Duns Scotus’ta Varlığın Tekanlamlılığı Kavramı: Yeniden Bakış = Duns Scotus’s concept of the univocity of being: another look [translation]. In: Durmuş, Ece and Baysoy, Cengiz (eds.) Tekanlamlılık. Otonom Yayıncılık: Istanbul, pp. 163-182. ISBN 9786057872197

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Öztürk, Haydar (2021) Haecceitas ve Varlık Problemi: Heidegger ve Duns Scotus = Haecceitas and the question of being: Heidegger and Duns Scotus [translation]. In: Durmuş, Ece and Baysoy, Cengiz (eds.) Tekanlamlılık. Otonom Yayıncılık: Istanbul, pp. 149-161. ISBN 9786057872197

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Öztürk, Haydar (2021) Varlığın tekanlamlılığı: deleuze = The univocity of being: deleuze [translation]. In: Durmuş, Ece and Baysoy, Cengiz (eds.) Tekanlamlılık. Otonom Yayıncılık: Istanbul, pp. 13-17. ISBN 9786057872197

Lewin, David and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2021) Editorial. Researching Education Bulletin, 11, pp. 3-4.

2020

Herron, Alastair, Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Robertson, Sandi (2020) On Beauty: A Dialogue. [Audio]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Robertson, Sandi (2020) Desert Island Art. [Audio]

Ingold, Tim and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2020) An interview with Tim Ingold. [Audio]

Harrison, Victoria S. and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2020) Philosophy of museums. In: Jackson, John (ed.) Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology. Oxford University Press: New York, USA. ISBN 9780199766567 (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199766567-0241)

Lewin, David and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2020) What might the Covid Pandemic mean for the SERA Theory and Philosophy of Education Network? Scottish Educational Review, 52(2), pp. 17-18. (doi: 10.1163/27730840-05202007)

2019

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2019) Duns-Scotus; varligin tek anlamliligi modern felsefe, ve teoloji. Sabah Ülkesi: Üç Aylik Kültür Sanat Ve Felsefe Dergisi, 61,

2018

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2018) Heidegger, heterotopic dwelling and prehistoric art: an initial indication of a field of research. Religions, 9(12), 405. (doi: 10.3390/rel9120405)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2018) Dwelling: Heidegger, archaeology, mortality. Series: Routledge studies in archaeology. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138705425

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2018) Interpretation. In: López Varela, Sandra L. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley: Hoboken, NJ. ISBN 9780470674611 (doi: 10.1002/9781119188230.saseas0332)

2017

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2017) Wittgenstein on forms of life: a short introduction. E-Logos, 24(1), pp. 13-18. (doi: 10.18267/j.e-logos.440)

2016

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2016) Museums, ethics and truth: why museums' collecting policies must face up to the problem of testimony. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 79, pp. 159-177. (doi: 10.1017/S1358246116000126)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2016) Philip Tonner: Adventures in theory at EAA 2015. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 38(1), pp. 74-75. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2016.0068)

2015

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2015) Epoch: Heidegger and the happening of history. Minerva, 19, pp. 132-150.

Higginbottom, G., Smith, Andrew G. K. and Tonner, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2015) A recreation of visual engagement and the revelation of world views in Bronze Age Scotland. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 22(2), pp. 584-645. (doi: 10.1007/s10816-013-9182-7)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2015) Did Homo erectus dwell? Heidegger, archaeology and the future of phenomenology. In: Georgakis, Tziovanis and Ennis, Paul J. (eds.) Heidegger in the Twenty-First Century. Series: Contributions to phenomenology (80). Springer: Dordrecht, pp. 141-165. (doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-9679-8_9)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2015) Phenomenology between aesthetics and idealism: an essay in the history of ideas. Series: New studies in idealism. Noesis Press: Aurora, CO. ISBN 9781934542538

2014

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2014) Art, materiality and the meaning of being: Heidegger on the work of art and the significance of things. In: Boetzkes, Amanda and Vinegar, Aron (eds.) Heidegger and the Work of Art History. Routledge: Abingdon, pp. 121-140. ISBN 9781409456131

2013

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2013) Between medieval and modern beholding: Heidegger, Deleuze and the Duns Scotus affair. In: Roach, Andrew P. and Simpson, James R. (eds.) Heresy and the Making of European Culture: Medieval and Modern Perspectives. Routledge: Farnham, pp. 413-428. ISBN 9781472411815

2011

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2011) Toward a phenomenological cognitive archaeology. Phenomenology and Mind, 1, pp. 116-123. (doi: 10.13128/Phe_Mi-19649)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2011) Heidegger, Gadamer and the work of archaeology. Rundbrief der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theorie in der Archäologie,

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2011) Are animals poor in the world? A critique of Heidegger’s anthropocentrism. In: Boddice, Rob (ed.) Anthropocentrism. Series: Human-animal studies (12). Brill: Leiden. ISBN 9789004214941 (doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004187948.i-348.50)

2010

Harrison, V.S. and Tonner, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2010) Abstracta in Concreta: Engaging Museum Collections in Philosophical and Religious Studies Research. Project Report. Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design, University of Brighton.

Higginbottom, Gail and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2010) Archaeologies and geographies of value. In: Koerner, Stephanie and Russell, Ian (eds.) Unquiet Pasts: Risk Society, Lived Cultural Heritage, Re-designing Reflexivity. Series: Heritage, culture and identity. Ashgate: Burlington. ISBN 9780754675488

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2010) Action, Practical Agency and Evolution or, How Phenomenological Accounts of Intentionality Ground Cognitive Archaeology. "The Phenomenological Mind” Winter School, Milan, Italy, 26-28 Jan 2010.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2010) Heidegger, Metaphysics and the Univocity of Being. Series: Continuum studies in continental philosophy. Continuum: London. ISBN 9781441172297

2009

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2009) Hegel on the Other: introducing the concept of recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology. E-Logos, 16(1), pp. 1-14.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2009) Foucault. In: Mullarkey, John and Lord, Beth (eds.) The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. Series: Bloomsbury companions. Continuum: London. ISBN 9780826498304

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2009) Making connections: some initial thoughts on communication, constructivism and formative assessment. Discourse: Learning and Teaching in Philosophical and Religious Studies, 8(2),

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2009) Marx and Marxism. In: Mullarkey, John and Lord, Beth (eds.) The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. Series: Bloomsbury companions. Continuum: London. ISBN 9780826498304

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2009) Structuralism. In: Mullarkey, John and Lord, Beth (eds.) The Continuum Companion to Continental Philosophy. Series: Bloomsbury companions. Continuum: London. ISBN 9780826498304

2008

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2008) Haecceitas and the question of being: Heidegger and Duns Scotus. Kritike, 2(2), pp. 146-154.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2008) Action and Hamartia in Aristotle's Poetics. E-Logos, 15(1), pp. 1-23.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2008) The return of the relative: Hamilton, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and French phenomenology. Janus Head, 11(1-2),

2007

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2007) Duns Scotus’s concept of the univocity of being: another look. Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 18, pp. 129-146.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2007) Freud, Bentham: panopticism and the super-ego. Cultural Logic, 14, (doi: 10.14288/clogic.v14i0.191754)

2006

Hutton, Andrew and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2006) The Age of Genius. [Audio]

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Number of items: 65.

Articles

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2022) Authority: on the revaluation of a value. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 56(4), pp. 593-600. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9752.12701)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2022) Kenneth White, Nomadism and Geopoetics. Stravaig #11: Geopoetics and the Climate Crisis, pp. 16-20.

Lewin, David and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2021) Editorial. Researching Education Bulletin, 11, pp. 3-4.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2019) Duns-Scotus; varligin tek anlamliligi modern felsefe, ve teoloji. Sabah Ülkesi: Üç Aylik Kültür Sanat Ve Felsefe Dergisi, 61,

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2017) Wittgenstein on forms of life: a short introduction. E-Logos, 24(1), pp. 13-18. (doi: 10.18267/j.e-logos.440)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2016) Philip Tonner: Adventures in theory at EAA 2015. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 38(1), pp. 74-75. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2016.0068)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2015) Epoch: Heidegger and the happening of history. Minerva, 19, pp. 132-150.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2011) Toward a phenomenological cognitive archaeology. Phenomenology and Mind, 1, pp. 116-123. (doi: 10.13128/Phe_Mi-19649)

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2011) Heidegger, Gadamer and the work of archaeology. Rundbrief der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Theorie in der Archäologie,

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2009) Hegel on the Other: introducing the concept of recognition in Hegel’s Phenomenology. E-Logos, 16(1), pp. 1-14.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2008) Haecceitas and the question of being: Heidegger and Duns Scotus. Kritike, 2(2), pp. 146-154.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2008) Action and Hamartia in Aristotle's Poetics. E-Logos, 15(1), pp. 1-23.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2008) The return of the relative: Hamilton, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty and French phenomenology. Janus Head, 11(1-2),

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2007) Duns Scotus’s concept of the univocity of being: another look. Pli: Warwick Journal of Philosophy, 18, pp. 129-146.

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2007) Freud, Bentham: panopticism and the super-ego. Cultural Logic, 14, (doi: 10.14288/clogic.v14i0.191754)

Books

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2018) Dwelling: Heidegger, archaeology, mortality. Series: Routledge studies in archaeology. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138705425

Book Sections

Edited Journals

Research Reports or Papers

Conference or Workshop Item

Audio

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Cowie, Ashley (2024) Heidegger, Dwelling and Prehistoric Metaphysics. [Audio]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2022) Realigning Curricula for the Future: Philosophy & Theology and Sustainability. [Audio]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2021) Philip Tonner: celebrating the lives of those we love. [Audio]

Herron, Alastair, Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Robertson, Sandi (2020) On Beauty: A Dialogue. [Audio]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 and Robertson, Sandi (2020) Desert Island Art. [Audio]

Ingold, Tim and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2020) An interview with Tim Ingold. [Audio]

Hutton, Andrew and Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2006) The Age of Genius. [Audio]

Website

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part Five [blog post]. [Website]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part Four [blog post]. [Website]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part Three [blog post]. [Website]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part Two [blog post]. [Website]

Tonner, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8243-7385 (2026) Adam Smith and Education for the Good: Part One [blog post]. [Website]

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Grants

2024, (with Claire Ramjan and George King) Engaging forests in Initial Teacher Education: outdoor learning, pedagogy and practice, (£2000).

2022, (with Mia Perry and Giovanna Fassetta) Mapping pathways to sustainability in education, (£3200).

2020, (with Mark McLay, Catriona MacLeod and Sarah Anderson) Podcasting the Past, (£1767) https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/education/research/elp/news/headline_815508_en.html

2020, (with Oscar Odena) Wayfarers: confronting the past through history and traditional music education in schools (£4856). https://thewayfarers.gla.ac.uk/?asdasdas=1

2010, Research Support Grant, Kellogg College, The University of Oxford (£121).

2009, Kellogg College Research Studentship (academic merit bursary), The University of Oxford (£300).

2008, (with Victoria Harrison), ‘Abstracta in Concreta: Engaging Museum Collections in Philosophical and Religious Studies Research’, (£1881.50), a collaborative research training day, The Higher Education Academy, Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Department of Philosophy, The University of Glasgow, and Glasgow Museums. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6176874.pdf

2000, Cross Trust Summer Research Bursary, for research into the Human Genome Project in relation to Identity and Ethics (£500).

Supervision

I am interested in supervising students in my areas of research interest.

Current PhD student(s):

Xinghan Wang (Co-supervisors, Dr Leping Mou, Prof. Bob Davis) 'Dewey and Democratic Education in China'.

Dorcas Fakile (Co-supervisors Dr Ines Alves, Dr Armand Leon Van Ommen (University of Aberdeen), 'Black and autistic? God Forbid!'

Craig Agnew (Co-supervisor Dr Ramona Fotiade (SMLC)), 'I am therefore I am'.

Clare Fodey (Co-supervisor Prof. Leonardo Franchi), 'Liturgy as Pedagogy: A critical examination of the pedagogical value of signs and symbols in Catholic Liturgy'.

Catherine Browne (Co-supervisor Prof. Leonardo Franchi), 'Mission, Identity and Curriculum in Catholic Schools; the voice of Catholic educators'.

Dorothy Munro (Co-supervisors, Dr Sally Zacharias, Dr Jennifer Farrar), 'An analysis of the impact of cross-curricular incorporation of metaphor awareness as a tool for enhanced literacy and increased attainment in both the English classroom and other secondary school subjects'.

Some past topics supervised at masters level:

'Scottish Universities in the Age of Enlightenment';

'A Nietzschean Pedagogy: Education as Philosophy';

'A comparison of Confucius and Plato on the philosophy of education'.

'Rising Tides: climate change education through an online video tour of a museum exhibition'.

'Decolonizing museum education in the Middle East';

'Comparing the Approaches and Outcomes of Community-Led vs. Institution-Led Environmental Education'.

Fakile, Dorcas
Black and autistic? God forbid! Exploring and deconstructing cultural myths about autism within the Black community.
Wang, Xinghan
Dewey and Democratic Education in Republican China, 1920–1945: Reception, Contestation and Indigenisation

EdD: Encountering death: Young people on battlefield tours - Dr Paul Hamilton, PGR, University of Strathclyde.

Teaching

I currently teach on a number of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.

Additional information

I convene the Education, Culture, and Philosophy SIG in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow.

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