Miscellanea

On persons, gods and learned societies: a reflection on incorporation, in Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Newsletter 2024-25, pp.25-26.

Education, extremism and exemption from basic morality, keynote lecture at PESA Annual Conference, 6 December 2024.

Education against extremism, interview with Nick Burbules and Laura D'Olimpio, Educational Theory podcast, 29 July 2023.

From the Chair, in Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Newsletter 2020-22, pp.2-4.

The distinctive educational value of philosophy, presentation at Philosophy in Schools, Centre for Engaged Philosophy, 20 January 2020.

The biggest challenge for advocates of philosophy in schools, interview with Joana Rita Sousa, Filocriatividade, 2 March 2017.

28 years later: an apology from my school bully, in TES, 29 March 2016.

Prospects for assessment in the domain of Ethics and thinking for oneself, background paper for the OECD, 2016.

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. [preprint]

The pencil, in Worley, P. (ed) The Philosophy Shop, Bancyfelin: Independent Thinking Press, 2012, pp.151-152. [preprint]

Who says philosophers of education can't have fun?, in Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Newsletter 2010-11.

Regeneration and resurrection, in Lewis, C. and Smithka, P. (eds) Doctor Who and Philosophy, Chicago: Open Court, 2010, pp.213-223. [preprint]

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. 

Fifteen minutes of infamy, in Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Newsletter 2007-08.

Should patriotism be promoted, tolerated or discouraged in British schools?, final project report for the Nuffield Foundation, 2007 (with Joanne Pearce).

Confessions of a conference organiser, in Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Newsletter 2006-07.

What is RE for?, in What is Religious Education for? Getting the National Framework right, IPPR, 2004.

Extraordinary ends by ordinary means: a tribute to John Wilson, in Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain Newsletter 2003-04.

Is religious education possible? An examination of the logical possibility of teaching for religious understanding without religious belief, DPhil thesis, University of Oxford, 2001.

An experiment in moral education, in Primary Practice 16, 1998, pp.17-22 (with Ranjit Sondhi).

The year of living arduously, in TES, 12 July 1996.