Andrew Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591232 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9593-7212 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Meaning and structure in Black students' ways of experiencing academic achievement
Historically White universities in Britain have a long history of misrecognizing the experiences of Black students and rendering their struggles and aspirations a matter of scrutiny. More recently an intense higher education policy focus has been placed on addressing outcome differentials between various ethnoracial groups. Little however is known about how minoritised groups of students experience and understand academic achievement. In our phen…
Religious education and worldview theory
This paper contributes to the ongoing debate surrounding the place of ‘worldviews’ in Religious Education. We examine the British Commission on Religious Education proposal that the subject be renamed ‘Religions and Worldviews’ from the perspective of Worldview Theory and Critical Religious Education and make the following suggestions: (a) the twin notion of ‘ultimate nature of reality’ and ‘our place in the ‘ultimate order-of things’ provides a …
Bringing ‘Yotkom’ to northern Uganda: Translating ‘health’ for those who need it most through a synthesis of clinical practice guidelines
In resource-poor settings, like northern Uganda, a shortage of trained medical staff and reduced access to evidence-based education or guidelines often leads to an inconsistent approach to medical practice and prescription, and consequent poor patient outcomes. Within this context the application of clinical practice guidelines developed in high-income countries has variable success. Due to the impractical resource and skill requirements of inter…
Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on rangers and the role of rangers as a planetary health service
Rangers play an indispensable role in maintaining balance between people and the natural world by protecting and managing protected and conserved areas. Despite occupying this key role, rangers are facing many challenges across organisational, occupational and personal fronts that hinder the delivery of their duties. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these challenges and made the fight against the illegal killing of wildlife, illegal logging,…
Social Work Communication with Parents Who Are Practising Christians: An Empirical Study
Given Britain’s religious, spiritual and secular diversity, and national legislation and policy directives such as The Children Act 1989 and Working Together to Safeguard Children, this empirical study addressed the lack of specific research investigating social workers’ actual communication-in-action with Christian parents during statutory parenting assessment. The research deployed the two complementary theoretical frameworks of Critical Realis…
Is the European push for Open Access bad for environmental science
The End? Science, conservation, and social justice as necessary tools for preventing the otherwise inevitable human extinction
What is critical for transforming higher education? The transformative potential of pedagogical framework of phenomenography and variation theory of learning for higher education
This article reviews some key literature of Phenomenography and Variation Theory of Learning as an outline of a pedagogical framework for transforming higher education. Transformation implies change in ways that can deliver on the promise of social justice or what we call socially just pedagogies. It implies that one must understand what needs to transform and how transformation can be made possible in higher education. This process requires an u…
Realists Divided by Epistemic Relativism: Morgan on Naturalism and Triune Christianity
In the following paper I explore various aspects of Jamie Morgan's recent review essay of my Christianity and Critical Realism. I suggest that his reading of the book is flawed on at least three counts: he misreads the book as a work of Christian apologetics rather than as an attempt to enrich debates surrounding the ‘spiritual turn’ in critical realism; his core claim that Christian theological science is closed to judgemental rationality in the…
Women's Bodies as Battlefield: Christian Theology and the Global War on Women
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite unmasks the nature of daily violence against women by construing it as a literal “War on Women” (2) that transforms the bodies of women into “battlefields” (4). She demo
Defending the Ivory Tower against the end of the world
Understanding children’s spirituality: Theology, research and practice
Response to Patricia Hannam’s Review of Critical Religious Education, Multiculturalism and the Pursuit of Truth
Christianity and Critical Realism: Ambiguity, Truth and Theological Literacy
One of the key achievements of critical realism has been to expose the modernist myth of universal reason, which holds that authentic knowledge claims must be objectively 'pure', uncontaminated by the subjectivity of local place, specific time and particular culture. Wright aims to address the lack of any substantial and sustained engagement between critical realism and theological critical realism with particular regard to: (a) the distinctive o…
Local climate policy: Lessons from a case study of transfer of expertise between UK local authorities
The ethics of evangelism: A philosophical defence of ethical proselytizing and persuasion
In Praise of the Spiritual Turn: Critical Realism and Trinitarian Christianity
In Against the Spiritual Turn: Marxism, Realism and Critical Theory Sean Creaven sets out to reject Christian theism on materialist grounds. This paper critiques Creaven's argument from a critically realist Trinitarian Christian standpoint. His failure to engage with Christian theologians, philosophers and biblical scholars, on the a priori ground that since Christianity is inherently irrational Christian scholarship must also be inherently irrat…
‘On the expiration of speech’: Children’s spirituality in time of war
This paper adopts an under‐labouring role, seeking to support those engaged on the front‐line of the challenge of dealing with children’s spirituality in time of war. It suggests that the post‐Enlightenment notion of spirituality as the exploration of inner‐space is dislocated from reality and consequently generates a nihilistic subjectivity incapable of resisting the forces of totalitarianism and violence. The urgent need to pursue the ontologic…
The Politics of Multiculturalism: A review of Brian Berry, 2001, Culture and equality: An egalitarian critique of multiculturalism
Context, Competence and Cultural Diversity: Religious education in a European setting
Velleius Paterculus and L. Munatius Plancus
Hermeneutics and Religious Understanding Part Two: Towards a critical theory for religious education
The previous article offered an account of the hermeneutics implicit in religious education from 1960 to the present. It was suggested that an uncritical reliance on the traditions of romanticism and postmodernism serves to impair the emergence of religious literacy. Here an attempt is made to plot the contours of a critical hermeneutical theory for religious education, drawing on the resources of linguistic hermeneutical theory provided by the c…
Embodied Spirituality: The place of culture and tradition in contemporary educational discourse on spirituality
The paper explores the cultural context of contemporary educational discourse on spirituality in Great Britain by defending the following theses: spiritual education seeks a universal perspective that transcends any specific cultural context and tradition; it disengages itself from the culture of modernity, which it perceives as a spiritual desert; it finds in the tradition of late 18th and early 19th Century romanticism resources to support the …
Part One: The hermeneutics of modern religious education
Hermeneutical reflection on the nature, process, and scope of understanding tends to flourish whenever standard procedures of interpretation begin to falter. The contemporary study of religion is a case in point: conflicting results reflect a lack of consensus regarding appropriate methods of investigation. As a result, hermeneutics enjoys an increasingly significant role in religious and theological exploration. The discipline of religious educa…
Postmodernism and Religious Education: A Reply to Liam Gearon
Velleius Paterculus and L. Munatius Plancus
What is critical for transforming higher education? The transformative potential of pedagogical framework of phenomenography and variation theory of learning for higher education
This article reviews some key literature of Phenomenography and Variation Theory of Learning as an outline of a pedagogical framework for transforming higher education. Transformation implies change in ways that can deliver on the promise of social justice or what we call socially just pedagogies. It implies that one must understand what needs to transform and how transformation can be made possible in higher education. This process requires an u…
Social Work Communication with Parents Who Are Practising Christians: An Empirical Study
Given Britain’s religious, spiritual and secular diversity, and national legislation and policy directives such as The Children Act 1989 and Working Together to Safeguard Children, this empirical study addressed the lack of specific research investigating social workers’ actual communication-in-action with Christian parents during statutory parenting assessment. The research deployed the two complementary theoretical frameworks of Critical Realis…
Christianity and Critical Realism: Ambiguity, Truth and Theological Literacy
One of the key achievements of critical realism has been to expose the modernist myth of universal reason, which holds that authentic knowledge claims must be objectively 'pure', uncontaminated by the subjectivity of local place, specific time and particular culture. Wright aims to address the lack of any substantial and sustained engagement between critical realism and theological critical realism with particular regard to: (a) the distinctive o…
Essays on Fielding's 'Miscellanies'. A Commentary on Volume One
The Moral and the Story
A Troubled Eden: Nature and Society in the Works of George Meredith by Norman Kelvin
Book Review| October 01 1962 A Troubled Eden: Nature and Society in the Works of George Meredith by Norman Kelvin A Troubled Eden: Nature and Society in the Works of George Meredith. By Kelvin, Norman. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1961. Pp. xiii, 250. $5.50. Andrew Wright Andrew Wright Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1962) 61 (4): 555–556. https://doi.org/10.1215/0…
The Art of Joseph Andrews by Homer Goldberg
Book Review| April 01 1970 The Art of Joseph Andrews by Homer Goldberg The Art of Joseph Andrews. By Goldberg, Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. Pp. 292. $8.50. Andrew Wright Andrew Wright University Of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1970) 69 (2): 293–294. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-69-2-293 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn …
Blake's Job
Closing Times by Dan Davin
Book Review| July 01 1976 Closing Times by Dan Davin Closing Times. By Davin, Dan. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975. Pp. xxii, 189. $12.95. Andrew Wright Andrew Wright University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1976) 75 (3): 392–394. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-75-3-392a Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site…
The Myth of the Picaro: Continuity and Transformation in the Picaresque Novel, 1554-1954 by Alexander Blackburn
Book Review| July 01 1980 The Myth of the Picaro: Continuity and Transformation in the Picaresque Novel, 1554-1954 by Alexander Blackburn The Myth of the Picaro: Continuity and Transformation in the Picaresque Novel, 1554-1954. By Blackburn, Alexander. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1979. Pp. x, 267. $16.50. Andrew Wright Andrew Wright University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: This Site Go…
Postmodernism and Religious Education: A Reply to Liam Gearon
Myths of Emancipation, Narratives of Redemption An educational reflection on the epistemological roots of the contemporary ecological crisis In the west
This paper does not deal directly with the explicit literature that seeks to engage with the contemporary ecological crisis in its religious and theological dimensions‐ 1 1 Boff (1995), Deane‐Drummond (1996), Gustafson (1995), Pannenberg (1993), Ruether (1996), Spurway (1993). Its concern is rather with the educational, hermeneutical and epistemological structures within which the crisis is analysed, and through which responses are formulated. Sp…
Embodied Spirituality: The place of culture and tradition in contemporary educational discourse on spirituality
The paper explores the cultural context of contemporary educational discourse on spirituality in Great Britain by defending the following theses: spiritual education seeks a universal perspective that transcends any specific cultural context and tradition; it disengages itself from the culture of modernity, which it perceives as a spiritual desert; it finds in the tradition of late 18th and early 19th Century romanticism resources to support the …
Part One: The hermeneutics of modern religious education
Hermeneutical reflection on the nature, process, and scope of understanding tends to flourish whenever standard procedures of interpretation begin to falter. The contemporary study of religion is a case in point: conflicting results reflect a lack of consensus regarding appropriate methods of investigation. As a result, hermeneutics enjoys an increasingly significant role in religious and theological exploration. The discipline of religious educa…
Hermeneutics and Religious Understanding Part Two: Towards a critical theory for religious education
The previous article offered an account of the hermeneutics implicit in religious education from 1960 to the present. It was suggested that an uncritical reliance on the traditions of romanticism and postmodernism serves to impair the emergence of religious literacy. Here an attempt is made to plot the contours of a critical hermeneutical theory for religious education, drawing on the resources of linguistic hermeneutical theory provided by the c…
Velleius Paterculus and L. Munatius Plancus
Context, Competence and Cultural Diversity: Religious education in a European setting
The Politics of Multiculturalism: A review of Brian Berry, 2001, Culture and equality: An egalitarian critique of multiculturalism
‘On the expiration of speech’: Children’s spirituality in time of war
This paper adopts an under‐labouring role, seeking to support those engaged on the front‐line of the challenge of dealing with children’s spirituality in time of war. It suggests that the post‐Enlightenment notion of spirituality as the exploration of inner‐space is dislocated from reality and consequently generates a nihilistic subjectivity incapable of resisting the forces of totalitarianism and violence. The urgent need to pursue the ontologic…
In Praise of the Spiritual Turn: Critical Realism and Trinitarian Christianity
In Against the Spiritual Turn: Marxism, Realism and Critical Theory Sean Creaven sets out to reject Christian theism on materialist grounds. This paper critiques Creaven's argument from a critically realist Trinitarian Christian standpoint. His failure to engage with Christian theologians, philosophers and biblical scholars, on the a priori ground that since Christianity is inherently irrational Christian scholarship must also be inherently irrat…
Local climate policy: Lessons from a case study of transfer of expertise between UK local authorities
The ethics of evangelism: A philosophical defence of ethical proselytizing and persuasion
Understanding children’s spirituality: Theology, research and practice
Response to Patricia Hannam’s Review of Critical Religious Education, Multiculturalism and the Pursuit of Truth
Christianity and Critical Realism: Ambiguity, Truth and Theological Literacy
One of the key achievements of critical realism has been to expose the modernist myth of universal reason, which holds that authentic knowledge claims must be objectively 'pure', uncontaminated by the subjectivity of local place, specific time and particular culture. Wright aims to address the lack of any substantial and sustained engagement between critical realism and theological critical realism with particular regard to: (a) the distinctive o…
Defending the Ivory Tower against the end of the world
Realists Divided by Epistemic Relativism: Morgan on Naturalism and Triune Christianity
In the following paper I explore various aspects of Jamie Morgan's recent review essay of my Christianity and Critical Realism. I suggest that his reading of the book is flawed on at least three counts: he misreads the book as a work of Christian apologetics rather than as an attempt to enrich debates surrounding the ‘spiritual turn’ in critical realism; his core claim that Christian theological science is closed to judgemental rationality in the…
Women's Bodies as Battlefield: Christian Theology and the Global War on Women
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite unmasks the nature of daily violence against women by construing it as a literal “War on Women” (2) that transforms the bodies of women into “battlefields” (4). She demo
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