Outputs (3)

As if by Machinery: The Levelling of Educational Research (2006)
Journal Article
Smith, R. (2006). As if by Machinery: The Levelling of Educational Research. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 40(2), 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2006.00509.x

Much current educational research shows the influence of two powerful but potentially pernicious lines of thought. The first, which can be traced at least as far back as Francis Bacon, is the ambition to formulate precise techniques of research, or `... Read More about As if by Machinery: The Levelling of Educational Research.

Abstraction and finitude: education, chance and democracy (2006)
Journal Article
Smith, R. (2006). Abstraction and finitude: education, chance and democracy. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 25(1-2), 19-35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-006-6436-9

Education in the west has become a very knowing business in which students are encouraged to cultivate self-awareness and meta-cognitive skills in pursuit of a kind of perfection. The result is the evasion of contingency and of the consciousness of h... Read More about Abstraction and finitude: education, chance and democracy.

On diffidence: the moral psychology of self-belief (2006)
Journal Article
Smith, R. (2006). On diffidence: the moral psychology of self-belief. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 40(1), 51-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2006.00498.x

The language of self-belief, including terms like shyness and diffidence, is complex and puzzling. The idea of self-esteem in particular, which has been given fresh currency by recent interest in 'personalised learning', continues to create problems.... Read More about On diffidence: the moral psychology of self-belief.