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Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Philosophy of Education is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Embedded rationality and the contextualisation of critical thinking	21
Making a drama out of a mental health crisis	16
Die Überkinder: Nietzsche and Greta Thunberg, children and philosophy	11
Inclusion, democracy, and philosophy of education: Nuraan Davids and Yusef Waghid's Democratic education as inclusion	8
A direct approach to civic formation that preserves the spirit of pure liberal education	8
The global relevance of Tagore’s cosmopolitan educational philosophy for social justice in a post-Westphalian world	8
Situatedness and distantiation: education in a time of ecological and climate crises	8
‘Pursuing rational public defence’: Paul Hirst on teacher education	7
‘Pointing the way’: Alex Bloom and A.S. Neill on the enduring necessity and enacted possibility of radical democratic education as ‘a method of life’	7
Education, epistemic justice, and truthfulness: Miranda Fricker interviewed by A. C. Nikolaidis and Winston C. Thompson	7
Unprepared humanities: A pedagogy (forced) online	7
Gender diversities and sex education	6
Vocational guidance in general and vocational education schools in Germany: The relevance of informed choice for successful vocational education and the legacy of Aloys Fischer	6
Colonial monuments as slurring speech acts	6
Education for metaphysical animals	6
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Voices of the establishment or of cultural subversion? The Western canon in the curriculum	5
What is an appropriate educational response to controversial historical monuments?	5
Decolonizing environmental education: celebrating epistemological diversity through integrating traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge in Oman	5
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Education as a common good from the capability approach	5
Kant, casuistry and casuistical questions	5
The Kantian origins of Sergei Rubinstein's theory of moral improvement	5
Democracy and schooling: The paradox of co-operative schools in a neoliberal age?	5
Epistemic injustice through transformative learning	5

Reconsidering time in schools: an everyday aesthetics perspective	4
Consent and mutuality in sex education	4
‘The unbearable surplus of being human’: Happiness, virtues and the delegitimisation of the negative	4
A reflection on the teacher education curriculum and the decolonizing agenda in England	4
The flourishing child	4
Strolling to Nothingness: Japanese tea gardens and the initiation of Bildung	4
Empty education: a dialogue of Nishitani and Rancière	4
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TheFantasticschool: Catherine Malabou and an ontological basis in defence of the school	4
Treading the narrow path—rethinking democratic education in times of polarization	4
Experimental literature and post-critique: reflections on Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities	4
Biesta’s world-centred education: subjectification revisited?	4
Fulfilment: Crisis, discontinuity and the dark side of education	4
Philosophical silences: race, gender, disability, and philosophical practice	3
The epistemologies of the South and the future of the university	3
Flourishing as an aim of higher education: exploring the aspirations and challenges of the educational philosophy of the University of Humanistic Studies (UvH)	3
A democratic school: Teacher reconciliation, child-centred dialogue and emergent democracy	3
Liberal‐arts learning between school and the road	3
‘Look on my works ye mighty…’: Iconoclasm, education and the fate of statues	3
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Reimagining Ethiopia: philosophy education as a tool for overcoming ethnic divisions	3
Redeeming education after progress: composing variations as a way out of innovation tyrannies	3
Towards a relevant African philosophy of education	3
Emerson's ‘Self-Reliance’ and political self-education	3
Nice but not necessary? Reflections on the role of the arts in Kitcher's The Main Enterprise of the World	3
Teaching as rooted cosmopolitans: towards justice-oriented internationalization in higher education	3
Defending Well-being as an Educational Aim: Insights from the Capability Approach	3
Editorial	3
School as a place for Bildung and flourishing	3
Care ethics, needs-recognition, and teaching encounters	3
Discipline and the cultivation of autonomy in Immanuel Kant and Maria Montessori	3
An untimely vocation: Gadamer’s ‘Wissenschaft als Beruf. Über den Ruf und Beruf der Wissenschaft in unserer Zeit’ (1943)	3
Children’s literature and philosophy: comments on Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher	3
Rancière, music, and the musicality of teaching	2
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Should teachers use Platonic or Aristotelian dialogues for the moral education of young people?	2
‘Psychoanalysis is one more way of taking people seriously’: Adam Phillips in conversation with Emma Williams	2
Conceptualizing distributive justice in education: a complexity theory perspective	2
Science denial, post‐truth and our new dark age: Lee McIntyre interviewed by Richard Marshall	2
Cognitive gain and the close reading of literature	2
Kant on wonder as the motive to learn	2
Assessing a touchy subject: The problem of evaluating sex education then and now	2
Attending to Macbeth : Cultural therapy or therapy for culture?	2
The implicit epistemology ofWhite Fragility	2
Bildung and the significance of place: an overview	2
A celebration of the writing and professional work of Paul Hirst: an introduction	2
Re-reading Kerschensteiner today: Doing VET in German vocational schools—A search for traces	2
Subjects, disciplines, and practices	2
‘I've got anxiety’	2
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Lost Japan: focusing on the problems of globalism and nationalism in moral education	2
Basic education as a collective good: In defence of the school as a public social institution	2
Paul Hirst, education and epistemic injustice	2
Something sacred to our culture: René Arcilla's liberal education	2
The Right to Higher Education: A Political Theory	2
Response to commentators on Wim Wenders's Road Movie Philosophy: Education Without Learning	2
Education as site: challenges to evental learning in the ontological turn	2
Sociability and education in Kant and Hessen	2
Autonomy and critique in the goal-oriented university: the paradox of teaching reflexivity	2
Introduction to the suite: Violence Against Women and Girls and the Education of Voice	2
Education for individual fulfilment as social: grappling with obstructions to growth	2
Shadow students in Georgia: A Kantian condemnation	2
Learning after progress? Isabelle Stengers, artificial learning, and the future as problem	1
Practical rationality in education: beyond the Hirst–Carr debate	1
Alternative(s): Better or just different?	1
Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and Bildungsroman literature: a guidebook for journeying home, seeing places anew, and encountering Land-based education	1
The problem with faith-based carve-outs: RSE policy, religion and educational goods	1
The paradox of epistemic ability profiling	1
The regenerative liminalities of Global Citizenship Education	1
Founding German vocational education: Kerschensteiner, Spranger and Fischer as key figures in the classical German VET theory	1
Discovering disagreement: The story of an undergraduate Wartime Quartet reading group	1
Kant on education and improvement: Themes and problems	1
Conserving the dignity of teaching through ethics as ‘mise en question’	1
Friendship, markets, and companionate robots for children	1
Paul Hirst, liberal education and the postcolonial project	1
In memoriam: The who, how, where and when of statues	1
Obedience	1
Creating and sustaining democratic spaces in education	1
Emile’s inquiry-based science education	1
Epistemic injustice: complicity and promise in education	1
Activity Theory—An Introduction	1
Pedagogic obligations towards a decolonial and contextually responsive approach to teaching philosophy in South Africa	1
Political anger, affective injustice, and civic education	1
Teaching good sex: The limits of consent and the role of the virtues	1
Preface	1
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Sex ed for social justice: Using principles of hip-hop–based education to rethink school-based sex education	1
Expressing an interest in mental health education	1
Does Mills’ epistemology suggest a hermeneutic injustice of White Afroscepticism?	1
The role of the philosopher of education in the task of decoloniality	1
Metaphilosophical myopia and the ideal of expansive pluralism	1
A different sense of place: care and curation in the university	1
Corrigendum for ‘Kant on education and improvement: Themes and problems’ by Sticker & Bakhurst ()	1
Kairos and phronesis in teaching well	1
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A Kantian approach to education for moral sensitivity	1
Imagining sustainable worlds: the potential of mythical stories in environmental education	1
From critical thinking to criticality and back again	1
Introduction to the Suite: Political education for human transformation	1
The Trickster archetype: education to stupefy	1
Dressing the wound in education: A reading of Kore‐eda'sShoplifters	1
Epistemic injustice in education: exploring structural approaches, envisioning structural remedies	1
Autonomy, rationality, and religious initiation: replies to Hand, Wareham, Gheaus, Lewin, and Clayton	1
‘Don’t educate me—move me!’ Why we need art and artists (especially films and filmmakers) to love education into existence	1
Philosophy of Gurukula education: Personal education and practical democracy	1
Paulo Freire: Philosophy, Pedagogy and Practice	1
Mental health, resilience and existential literature	1
Tillson on religious initiation	1
Batteux, Kant and Schiller on fine art and moral education	1
Enlightenment as perfection, perfection as enlightenment? Kant on thinking for oneself and perfecting oneself	1
Educating Character Through the Arts	1
Ignorance: Aesthetic unlearning	1
Resisting policing in higher education: wilful White ignorance in the campus safety debate	1
Correction to ‘The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education’ by Judith Suissa and Alice Sullivan (2021)	1
A kind of road: The eye and the gaze in Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas	1
Corrections for ‘The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education’ by Suissa & Sullivan (2021)	1
Multicultural education for transnational democratic citizenship	1
A moral analysis of educational harm and student resistance	1
Teaching and knowledge: uneasy bedfellows	1
Finding one’s way: a response to the idea of an education after progress	1
Questioning progress in times of ‘no future’: an editorial introduction to the suite	1
Enabling children to learn from religions whilst respecting their rights: against monopolies of influence	1
Paul Hirst and religious education’s curriculum question: or how Hirst never thought religion was a form of knowledge at all	1