Education and Society Project
Director: Dr Lisa Jones
Throughout its quarter century, the Centre has had a continuing interest in issues having to do with education, both formal, from schooling through to university, and informal.
It has hosted philosophers of education among its visiting fellows, arranged public lectures on education and values in St Andrews, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Oxford and elsewhere, and co-sponsored conferences with philosophy of education societies.
It has also published essays and books on topic in education
Values, Education and the Human World (2004)
The Institution of Intellectual Values (2005)
Liberalism, Education and Schooling (2008)
Understanding Teaching and Learning (2011).
For further details click on the cover images or book titles.
Against this background and as it proceeds in its second quarter century The Centre is now giving specific expression to this aspect of its activities by establishing the CEPPA Education and Society Project under the directorship of Dr Lisa Jones.
Lisa came to St Andrews in September 2004 to take up a teaching fellowship in Aesthetics, after completing her PhD at Liverpool. She has continued to teach a variety of courses in Moral Philosophy, and became Senior Teaching Fellow in 2008. Her doctoral thesis was a study of the cognitive value of fictional narrative art, and her continuing research interests include issues at the intersection between philosophy and literature.
She is Director of Teaching and Director of Schools Outreach for Philosophy at St Andrews.
Philosophy Outreach
Dr Lisa Jones with Callum Smith, recipient of the Waid Academy Philosophy Prize 2007, sponsored by St Andrews Philosophy Department
The Philosophy Department at the University of St Andrews is keen to support the teaching of philosophy in secondary education and has developed a number of outreach initiatives engaging schools, teachers, and the Philosophy Higher syllabus. We are also beginning to engage in philosophy initiatives at primary-school level, in response to a growing interest in philosophical enquiry as part of the 'curriculum for excellence'.
We hold regular events here in St Andrews to support both pupils and teachers of philosophy (see buttons to the left), and our staff have even taken outreach ‘on the road’, visiting schools to give talks.
We have also had one of our PhD graduates funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy to be a Visiting Philosophy Teacher at Waid Academy, Anstruther.
Schools Outreach contains information about all our outreach activities, including our online distance-learning philosophy modules for teachers which will be relaunched for September 2012 (updated information will appear here before summer 2012).