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Dr Andrew Davis' Outputs (43)

Learning. (2009)
Book Chapter
Davis, A. (2009). Learning. In R. Bailey, D. Carr, R. Barrow, & C. McCarthy (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Education. SAGE Publications

Examples as Method? My Attempts to Understand Assessment and Fairness (in the Spirit of the Later Wittgenstein. (2009)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (2009). Examples as Method? My Attempts to Understand Assessment and Fairness (in the Spirit of the Later Wittgenstein. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 43(3), 371-389. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2009.00699.x

What is 'fairness' in the context of educational assessment? I apply this question to a number of contemporary educational assessment practices and policies. My approach to philosophy of education owes much to Wittgenstein. A commentary set apart fro... Read More about Examples as Method? My Attempts to Understand Assessment and Fairness (in the Spirit of the Later Wittgenstein..

High Stakes Testing and the Structure of the Mind: A reply to Randall Curren. (2006)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (2006). High Stakes Testing and the Structure of the Mind: A reply to Randall Curren. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 40(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.2006.00492.x

'High stakes testing' is to be understood as testing with serious consequences for students, their teachers and their educational institutions. It plays a central role in holding teachers and educational institutions to account. In a recent article R... Read More about High Stakes Testing and the Structure of the Mind: A reply to Randall Curren..

Learning and the Social Nature of Mental Powers (2005)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (2005). Learning and the Social Nature of Mental Powers. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 37(5), 635-647. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2005.00148.x

Over the last two decades the traditional conception of intelligence and other mental powers as stable individual assets has been challenged by approaches in psychology emphasising context and 'situated cognition'. This paper argues that the debate s... Read More about Learning and the Social Nature of Mental Powers.

Social Externalism and the Ontology of Competence (2005)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (2005). Social Externalism and the Ontology of Competence. Philosophical Explorations, 8(3), 297-308. https://doi.org/10.1080/13869790500219554

Social externalism implies that many competences are not personal assets separable from social and cultural environments but complex states of affairs involving individuals and persisting features of social reality. The paper explores the consequence... Read More about Social Externalism and the Ontology of Competence.

The Credentials of Brain-based Learning (2004)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (2004). The Credentials of Brain-based Learning. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 33(1), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0309-8249.2004.00361.x

This paper discusses the current fashion for brain-based learning, in which value-laden claims about learning are grounded in neurophysiology. It argues that brain science cannot have the 'authority' about learning that some seek to give it. It goes... Read More about The Credentials of Brain-based Learning.

The Measurement of Learning (2003)
Book Chapter
Davis, A. (2003). The Measurement of Learning. In R. Curren (Ed.), The Companion to the Philosophy of Education (272-283). Blackwell

Teaching for Understanding in Primary Mathematics (2001)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (2001). Teaching for Understanding in Primary Mathematics. Evaluation and research in education, 15(3), 136-42

Discusses the nature of mathematical understanding for primary school (elementary school) students in the context of the National Numeracy Strategy of the United Kingdom. Suggests some ways in which the national curriculum does not seem well designed... Read More about Teaching for Understanding in Primary Mathematics.

Do Children Have Privacy Rights in the Classroom? (2001)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (2001). Do Children Have Privacy Rights in the Classroom?. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 20(3), 245-54. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1010306811944

Argues that, while students should have the right to privacy in the classroom, there are instances when that right must be waived. Contends, however, that learners cannot acquire a proper understanding of factual material, or the justification for be... Read More about Do Children Have Privacy Rights in the Classroom?.

Prescribing Teaching Methods (1999)
Journal Article
Davis, A. (1999). Prescribing Teaching Methods. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 33(3), 387-401