Media
Education against extremism, interview with Nick Burbules and Laura D'Olimpio for the Educational Theory podcast, 29 July 2023.
What's the best approach to school punishment?, in TES, 30 October 2020.
A world of heroes and villains: why we should challenge children’s simplistic moral beliefs, in The Conversation, 31 January 2020.
The distinctive educational value of philosophy, presentation at Philosophy in Schools, Centre for Engaged Philosophy, 20 January 2020.
Teaching same-sex relationships must start at primary, in TES, 29 November 2019.
Why ‘Religion and Worldviews’ is a non-starter, in Social Sciences Birmingham, 10 October 2018.
Ethics and absolutes in the classroom, interview with Laura D'Olimpio for The Philosopher's Zone, ABC Radio National, 19 August 2018.
Making children moral, in Philosophy Now, Issue 127, 2018, pp.48-49.
Philosophy now?, in TES, 13 July 2018.
If we disagree about morality, how can we teach it?, in Aeon, 16 March 2018.
Morality: what it is and how to teach it, in Social Sciences Birmingham, 15 February 2018.
How to teach children morals, in The Conversation, 22 December 2017,
28 years later: an apology from my school bully, in TES, 29 March 2016.
Should religious education prepare people to choose between faiths?, in The Conversation, 15 May 2015.
What’s the problem with promoting British values?, in The Progressive Conscience, Winter 2014, p.24.
We should not be conflating liberal democratic values with British national identity, in British Politics and Policy at LSE, 24 June 2014.
The point and perils of public engagement, in Philosophy Now, Issue 95, 2013, pp.6-7.
Michael Hand on religious education, interview with John Tillson, 19 February 2012.
Classroom punishment, in Worley, P. (ed) The Philosophy Shop, Bancyfelin: Independent Thinking Press, 2012, pp.193-194.
The pencil, in Worley, P. (ed) The Philosophy Shop, Bancyfelin: Independent Thinking Press, 2012, pp.151-152.
Philosophy in education, interview with Peter Worley and Stephen Boulter for the Philosophy Now Radio Show, 13 March 2012.
As the case for patriotism has not been decisively made, we have no business promoting it in schools, in British Politics and Policy at LSE, 6 December 2011.
What could go on the curriculum?, in PESGB Videos for Students and Teachers, 2010.
Should the curriculum be academic?, in PESGB Videos for Students and Teachers, 2010.
What are the alternatives to the academic curriculum?, in PESGB Videos for Students and Teachers, 2010.
Patriotism: is a country worth loving?, in Cherwell, 15 February 2008.
The meaning of religious education: answers for a troubled world, in Report (the magazine of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers), January 2006.
What is RE for?, published as part of the IPPR Report What is Religious Education for? Getting the National Framework right, 2004.