Valuing dis/agreement
Supported by the BERA Small Grants Fund 2024/25, this international study explored how teacher educators understand and enable dis/agreement in educational settings.
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Claire Cassidy, Professor
Professor at University of Strathclyde
Prof. Claire Cassidy is a professor in the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her research interests coalesce around the themes of: practical Philosophy with Children and young people (PwC); children’s human rights, and human rights education; and concepts of child and childhood. Claire leads the Postgraduate Certificate in Philosophy with Children at Strathclyde, which is part of the MEd (Education Studies) and the EdD(PwC) pathways. Claire convenes the Philosophy with Children and Communities Network and works to raise the profile of practical philosophy for children and adults in a range of contexts. She is committed to the promotion of children’s participation and sees practical philosophy as a way towards achieving that goal.
Claire Cassidy's contributions
Communities of Philosophical Enquiry: a question-posing education
Philosophy with Children and/or Communities is thriving, along with the international educational and philosophical movement associated with it, as the wider significance of its pedagogy, the...
Communities of Philosophical Enquiry: A Question Posing Education
Philosophy with Children and/or Communities is thriving, along with the international educational and philosophical movement associated with it, as the wider significance of its pedagogy, the...
Shutting up to promote children’s and young people’s voice
The thing that captured my interest as a reluctant student teacher was the 1991 BBC film The Transformers, which showed children doing philosophy. This wasn’t academic philosophy. Rather than...
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