L Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 10103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5626-596X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 90 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 90 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Philosophers of education versus tradition?
Philosophy of Education as a Global Field
It is not unusual to hear philosophers of education today describe the field as global . But in what sense is philosophy of education global? In this article, I analyze how and to what extent philosophy of education can be understood as a global field. The article argues that how we conceptualize philosophy of education as a global field (or not) makes a difference for how we conduct and evaluate scholarship, engage and collaborate with others, a…
What does it mean to do educational research in East Asia from a global perspective
Never forget? World relations 25 years after 9/11
Epstein, ICE, anger, and education
Making the big words small
Philosophy of education as pluriversal
Is philosophy of education Western? Views from Asia and beyond
Postdigital Peer Review
While academic peer review is the cornerstone of scholarly publishing, it presents significant challenges for early-career researchers. This collective paper describes an authentic peer review experience within a doctoral seminar. In collaboration with Postdigital Science and Education , students acted as peer reviewers for manuscripts under consideration, wrote individual reflections on the process, and engaged in group discussions to analyze th…
Diversity in Chinese societies
Teachers’ conceptions of gratitude and its cultivation in schools in China
Gratitude has recently received increasing scholarly attention as a moral value and virtue important for individual and social functioning and therefore worth cultivating in schools. However, previous research has often been based on experiences in western societies, while moral values and moral cultivation are understood in different ways across cultural contexts. This exploratory qualitative study examines teachers’ conceptions of gratitude and…
Beyond dichotomy
It is a widespread belief in many cultural contexts that teachers shall be moral educators and moral exemplars. However, in recent years, this conventional belief has been challenged by progressive views of various social and educational changes. In China, there is a particularly long tradition of regarding teachers as moral guardians who shall not be challenged by students or parents, but these traditional notions of teachers and their relations…
‘Passive Asian students’? A cross-cultural analysis of humility in education
A common stereotype in western higher education is that Asian students are “passive” rather than “active” learners. This stereotype is based on generalizations that Asian students tend to be quieter than western peers and less likely to engage in debates or share opinions. However, these students are being active in engaging in a learning style that makes sense to them. This paper analyses western and Confucian perspectives on humility in educati…
Teachers and scholars as counterhegemonic intellectuals? Their perspectives on ethnic diversity in textbooks in China
Background Scholarship in critical studies of education often addresses the role of teachers and scholars as ‘intellectuals’ engaging in counterhegemony. However, this discussion typically focuses on the contexts of formal democracies, overlooking the diversity of power structures in different political and social systems.Objective This research investigates how a group of teachers and scholars evaluate the representation of minority ethnic group…
Reframing Affective Injustice
This paper responds to the dilemma of affective injustice by distinguishing between three forms of anger and recommending a model of virtuous anger the expression of which is consistent with the productive pursuit of justice. It argues that anger may in the first instance be either passive or active, that is, a passive affective register and morally inert experience, or something that is manifest in action towards other agents. Active anger may t…
Expressiveness versus genuineness
Is philosophy of education western
Counting women, women counting
Queen of the alternative sessions
The voice of artificial intelligence
Liz JacksonToday lively debates are unfolding about artificial intelligence (Jackson, 2024; Peters et al., 2024; Sidorkin, 2024). Despite these debates, the topic remains undertheorized (Gourlay, 2
The manliness of artificial intelligence
Schools don’t care
Schools self-identify as caring communities and teach young children to be caring for each other. But schools also teach other contradictory and competing messages, such as individualism and self-reliance, rationalist concepts of justice and meritocracy, and other neoliberal approaches to life and community. Furthermore, while endorsements of care are commonly found in educational institutions, caring is not always (or even often) practiced or re…
Exploring Filipino philosophy of education
One major aspect of interest in Filipino philosophy is education. Reflecting on the nature, aims, and problems of education, Filipino philosophy of education investigates philosophical issues and emerging trends of philosophical thinking in education which are distinctive to the Filipino context. Filipino philosophy of education has a rich potential that encompasses revisiting cultural and historical narratives, considering inclusivity, reevaluat…
Cosmopolitan nationalism
This article examines the concept and role of cosmopolitanism in studies that theorize cosmopolitan nationalism (CN) in educational policy. First, it articulates a spectrum of diverse views that can be held under the labels of cosmopolitan, nationalism, and patriotism. Next, it assesses how cosmopolitanism is invoked in educational policy studies of CN. While the global and the national can intersect in various distinctive ways in educational the…
Humility and its cultivation in Chinese schools
AI and the future of humanity
Notes15 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.208555416 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-chatbots-naive-idiots-no-sense-of-irony-by-slavoj-zizek-2023-0317 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html
The smiling philosopher
Conference environments enable diverse roles for academics. However, conferences are hardly entered into by participants as equals. Academics enter into and experience professional environments differently according to culture, gender, race, ethnicity, class, and more. This paper considers from a philosophical perspective entering and initiating culturally into academic conferences as a woman. It discusses theories of gender and emotional labor a…
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
Philosophy of education in a new key
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role may ‘enquiry’ play? Is the future of education and philosophy embracing—or at least taking seriously—a…
Philosophy of education in a new key
This article shares reflections from members of the community of philosophers of education in the United States and Canada who were invited to express their insights in response to the theme ‘Snaps
Make China great again
Hong Kong, as a former colony of the United Kingdom, is characterised as a hybrid of East and West. Its colonial history is commonly seen as establishing many positive aspects of Hong Kong and shaping good qualities of its people, such as the value of rule of law, free speech, freedom of the press, and fluency in English. Yet the majority of people in both Hong Kong and China share Han Chinese ethnicity, which has been used by both the Chinese an…
After postmodernism in educational theory? A collective writing experiment and thought survey
Declarations of the death knell of postmodernism are now quite commonplace. Indeed, various publications such as those that we utilise below suggest that, if anything, postmodernism is at an end an
Education and the Hong Kong umbrella movement
This special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory considers the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement as an educational event, which has impacted attitudes and outlooks and conceptions of young people’s role, of education, and of society. This essay serves as an introduction to the more substantive pieces that follow. It describes two alternative perspectives on youth civic engagement in Hong Kong historically; and in so doing, it addresses some of t…
Philosophy of education in a new key
This work is composed of contributions from scholars from the field of philosophy of education in the Philippines who share their perspectives on the above questions. Contributions are philosophical reflections that bring to the fore the state of Filipino philosophy of education as well as discussions about the nature of Filipino cultural, political, and intellectual heritage: its roots and influences, sources in indigenous philosophy, Filipino v…
The ethical academy? The university as an ethical system
Universities may be seen as an evolving network of ethical systems that govern teaching, research, service, and administration. The university system, however, is changing; adding new rules, new wa
The China-threat discourse, trade, and the future of Asia. A Symposium
Michael A. PetersOnce commentators and policy-makers divest themselves of deep cultural Western assumptions that only democracies can prosper economically, or that capitalism and liberal democracy
Academic freedom of students
Academic freedom is often regarded as an absolute value of higher education institutions. Traditionally, its value is related to such topics as tenure, and the need for academic work to be free from undue political influence and other pressures that can challenge time-consuming research processes. However, when an analysis of student freedom begins with arguments about free research and free speech, undergirded as they generally are by liberal po…
Relations of blood? Racialization of civic identity in twenty-first century Hong Kong
This paper explores how notions of race, ethnicity, and blood are mobilized in educational texts in Hong Kong. It elaborates how civic identity is racialized as part of a nationalist education operating beneath the surface of expressed commitments to global citizenship, human rights, etc., in curriculum and textbooks. Many have commented on how cultural and ethnic ties are prioritized over political principles as bases for civic education in Asia…
Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?’ Emotions, child poverty, and post-humanitarian possibilities for social justice education
Under models of moral and global citizenship education, compassion and caring are emphasized as a counterpoint to pervasive, heartless, neo-liberal globalization. According to such views, these and related emotions such as empathy, sympathy, and pity, can cause people to act righteously to aid others who are disadvantaged through no fault of their own. When applied to the contemporary issue of alleviating child poverty, it seems such emotions are…
Challenges to the Global Concept of Student-Centered Learning with Special Reference to the United Arab Emirates
Student-centered learning has been conceived as a Western export to the East and the developing world in the last few decades. Philosophers of education often associate student-centered learning with frameworks related to meeting the needs of individual pupils: from Deweyan experiential learning, to the ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’ and other social justice orientations. Yet student-centered learning has also become, in the era of neoliberal educat…
Philosophers and professors behaving badly
Comparative and international higher education in a new key? Thoughts on the post-pandemic prospects of scholarship
Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong At the time of writing this Forum, many nations, cities, and universities are still in lockdown due to the COVID
Sinophobia in Hong Kong News Media
Sinophobia (anti-Chinese sentiment) has become normalised and increasingly acceptable in Hong Kong in recent decades. Such Sinophobia intersects with aims of protecting what is local in the society, as seen in Hong Kong news media. This paper first explores the concept of Sinophobia. It then provides a background on Sinophobia in Hong Kong, explaining the tensions between the identities of Hong Kong/HongKongers and Mainland China/Mainland Chinese…
Must children sit still? The dark biopolitics of mindfulness and yoga in education
From obscurity, mindfulness meditation and yoga have exploded in popularity in the last decade, as core elements of a new trend entering the mainstream, of ‘self care’. Self-care, particularly medi
The manliness of artificial intelligence
Cosmopolitan nationalism
This article examines the concept and role of cosmopolitanism in studies that theorize cosmopolitan nationalism (CN) in educational policy. First, it articulates a spectrum of diverse views that can be held under the labels of cosmopolitan, nationalism, and patriotism. Next, it assesses how cosmopolitanism is invoked in educational policy studies of CN. While the global and the national can intersect in various distinctive ways in educational the…
No single way takes us to our different futures’
Named or nameless
This paper focusses on our concerns about revelations about sexual harassment in universities and the inadequate responses whereby some universities seem more concerned about their own reputations than the care and protection of their students. Seldom do cases go to criminal court, instead they mostly fall within employment relations policies where the use of non-disclosure agreements are double edged, such that some perpetrators remain nameless …
Education in and for the Belt and Road Initiative
This paper is an experiment in collective writing conducted in Autumn 2019 at the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University. The experiment involves 12 international masters’ students reading the course based on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), their professor Michael Peters, visiting professor Petar Jandri c, and a mix of senior Chinese and Western scholars. To successfully complete the course, the students were required to produce a …
Post-marxism, humanism and (post)structuralism
Western Marxism, since its Western deviation and theoretical development in the 1920s, developed in diverse ways that has reflected the broader philosophical environment. First, a theory of conscio
Constructing 'Federal Democracy' in Russia
Everyday Ideas
Journal Article Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders Get access Everyday Ideas: Socioliterary Experience among Antebellum New Englanders. By Zboray Ronald J. and Zboray Mary Saracino. (Knox-ville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. xxvi, 430 pp. $48.00, isbn1-57233-471-1.) Leon Jackson Leon Jackson University of South CarolinaColumbia, South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Won’t Somebody Think of the Children?’ Emotions, child poverty, and post-humanitarian possibilities for social justice education
Under models of moral and global citizenship education, compassion and caring are emphasized as a counterpoint to pervasive, heartless, neo-liberal globalization. According to such views, these and related emotions such as empathy, sympathy, and pity, can cause people to act righteously to aid others who are disadvantaged through no fault of their own. When applied to the contemporary issue of alleviating child poverty, it seems such emotions are…
Challenges to the Global Concept of Student-Centered Learning with Special Reference to the United Arab Emirates
Student-centered learning has been conceived as a Western export to the East and the developing world in the last few decades. Philosophers of education often associate student-centered learning with frameworks related to meeting the needs of individual pupils: from Deweyan experiential learning, to the ‘pedagogy of the oppressed’ and other social justice orientations. Yet student-centered learning has also become, in the era of neoliberal educat…
Religion in Hong Kong education
Hong Kong's Liberal Studies curriculum (implemented in 2009) aims in part to teach young people about diversity in society, including cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity. This essay considers how religions and religious diversity are represented in Liberal Studies, analyzing how minority forms of religion are visible and invisible in the four most popular Liberal Studies textbook sets. The analysis will answer the questions of (1) how Hong …
Education and the Hong Kong umbrella movement
This special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory considers the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement as an educational event, which has impacted attitudes and outlooks and conceptions of young people’s role, of education, and of society. This essay serves as an introduction to the more substantive pieces that follow. It describes two alternative perspectives on youth civic engagement in Hong Kong historically; and in so doing, it addresses some of t…
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
Islam and Islamophobia in USA
Muslims and Islam in U.S. Education: Reconsidering Multiculturalism was published in 2014. Yet in some ways it already looks like an historical artifact. The formatting, production, and printing of
Multicultural Hong Kong
Racial and ethnic minorities experience misrecognition, prejudice and discimination in Hong Kong. In response to these challenges, multicultural education there aims to enable young people to recognize diversity in a more tolerant, open-minded way. Educators have been encouraged to not rely only on textbooks, but to include news and digital media in such teaching. This paper examines online media representations of diversity in Hong Kong in the c…
The smiling philosopher
Conference environments enable diverse roles for academics. However, conferences are hardly entered into by participants as equals. Academics enter into and experience professional environments differently according to culture, gender, race, ethnicity, class, and more. This paper considers from a philosophical perspective entering and initiating culturally into academic conferences as a woman. It discusses theories of gender and emotional labor a…
The power of relativism
Citation: Michael A. Peters (2017): Education in a post-truth world, Educational Philosophy and Theory, doi: 10.1080/00131857.2016.1264114Facts become futile with loss of objectivity and critical t
The Best Education Ever’
About 25 years ago, Samuel Huntington first defended his idea that the turn of century would see a rise in global, culturally-based conflicts, which he described as a ‘clash of civilisations’ (1993
After postmodernism in educational theory? A collective writing experiment and thought survey
Declarations of the death knell of postmodernism are now quite commonplace. Indeed, various publications such as those that we utilise below suggest that, if anything, postmodernism is at an end an
Mediating Class
Must children sit still? The dark biopolitics of mindfulness and yoga in education
From obscurity, mindfulness meditation and yoga have exploded in popularity in the last decade, as core elements of a new trend entering the mainstream, of ‘self care’. Self-care, particularly medi
Postmodernism in the afterlife
[This editorial is part of the 50th celebration issue that explored ‘what comes after postmodernism in educational theory. The special issue is being published as a monograph and this is our group
It’s Complicated’
Go home, team America
While the recent media attention to events in Hong Kong is unprecedented, protests in this special administrative region of China are nothing new. For years, Hong Kong democracy advocates have been
How the media creates fear, from the USA and UK to Hong Kong
In the last few decades, people have idealised the networked, online media landscape, for its potential to democratise information and education, inclusively open forums for new voices, and connect
But is it really research?’ mentoring students as theorists in the era of cybernetic capitalism
As Michael Peters notes (2017, 2018), in this age of ‘cybernetic capitalism’, the global knowledge infrastructure is dominated by trillion-dollar multinationals. These forces are reshaping what cou
Relations of blood? Racialization of civic identity in twenty-first century Hong Kong
This paper explores how notions of race, ethnicity, and blood are mobilized in educational texts in Hong Kong. It elaborates how civic identity is racialized as part of a nationalist education operating beneath the surface of expressed commitments to global citizenship, human rights, etc., in curriculum and textbooks. Many have commented on how cultural and ethnic ties are prioritized over political principles as bases for civic education in Asia…
Weary from the Future, Hong Kong
China’s Internationalized Higher Education During Covid-19
Decolonization, Nationalism, and local identity
Cosmopolitanism and its application for education in western societies has been well examined. Yet cosmopolitanism in society and in education has not been systematically explored in many Asian societies. Facing a large number of people from diverse backgrounds, the society and its education system in Hong Kong are troubled by issues similar to those found in western postindustrial societies, related to cultural and national belonging and identit…
Comparative and international higher education in a new key? Thoughts on the post-pandemic prospects of scholarship
Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong At the time of writing this Forum, many nations, cities, and universities are still in lockdown due to the COVID
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