David Stevens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Stevens |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevens |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0551-3150 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1914 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Pendle witch trials: A rational choice analysis
Purpose This study aims to test whether the events of the Pendle witch trials of 1612 in Lancashire, England, which saw the execution of nine people for charges of witchcraft, can be given a purposive explanation using the tools of rational choice theory and game theory, rather than being an outbreak or irrational witch-hysteria. Design/methodology/approach The analysis employs two standard economic theories: the theory of the firm and the theory…
A little less conversation, a little more action: Schools and the prevention of violent extremism through reasoned engagement
Many liberal democratic countries have enacted policy programmes aimed at preventing support for violent extremism. In countries such as the United Kingdom, part of this responsibility falls upon state-maintained schools. Teachers are charged with – among other things – challenging the claims, arguments and ideological narratives supportive of terrorism as well as promoting liberal democratic values as a counterweight. Insofar as the aim is to ra…
Recasting “Fundamental ‘British’ Values”: Education, Justice, and Preventing Violent Extremism
Societies concerned with preventing acts of violent extremism often target the ideas that are thought to motivate such acts. The state's use of educational institutions is one mechanism by which those ideas are subjected to challenge. Teaching liberal democratic values to students is one method. Here, David Stevens argues that this model is misguided. First, commitment to violent methods is not primarily driven by the attractiveness of radical id…
Further Thoughts on Talking to the Unreasonable: A Response to Wong
In ‘When God Commands Disobedience’ (Clayton and Stevens 2014) we address the question of how Rawlsian political liberals should treat the religiously unreasonable. The religiously unreasonable are those who, for reasons of religious faith or perceived divine command, reject one or more of the fundamental principles of society as a cooperative enterprise between free and equal people, and who may seek to change (or even punish) the political comm…
Risk thresholds for alcohol consumption: Combined analysis of individual-participant data for 599 912 current drinkers in 83 prospective studies
BACKGROUND: Low-risk limits recommended for alcohol consumption vary substantially across different national guidelines. To define thresholds associated with lowest risk for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease, we studied individual-participant data from 599 912 current drinkers without previous cardiovascular disease. METHODS: We did a combined analysis of individual-participant data from three large-scale data sources in 19 high-inco…
A Potential Avenue for Academic Success: Hope Predicts an Achievement-Oriented Psychosocial Profile in African American Adolescents
In a sample of 117 African American students, we examined how well hope predicts five psychosocial variables-school belonging, academic self-concept, goal valuation, attitude toward teachers, and academic motivation/self-regulation-that altogether make up an achievement-oriented psychosocial profile. Results indicated that, after controlling for demographics and previous achievement, the subscales of hope accounted for a meaningful portion of all…
SQUIRE 2.0 ( Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence): Revised publication guidelines from a detailed consensus process
Since the publication of Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE 1.0) guidelines in 2008, the science of the field has advanced considerably. In this manuscript, we describe the development of SQUIRE 2.0 and its key components. We undertook the revision between 2012 and 2015 using (1) semistructured interviews and focus groups to evaluate SQUIRE 1.0 plus feedback from an international steering group, (2) two face-to-face co…
Is the Free Market Acceptable to Everyone
In this paper we take issue with two central claims that John Tomasi makes in Free Market Fairness (2012). The first claim is that Rawls’s difference principle can better be realized by free market institutions than it can be by state interventionist regimes such as property-owning democracy or liberal socialism. We argue that Tomasi’s narrow interpretation of the difference principle, which focuses largely on wealth and income, leaves other good…
Critical Literacy through Initial Teacher Education in English
In this paper, I seek to ascertain whether critical literacy may have an important and realisable place in current English pedagogy, having first tried to establish what is meant by critical literacy, and what its contexts are for my purposes here, including the nature of initial teacher education (ITE). The paper then reports and reflects on some experiences of a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) English group in exploring elements of…
Creating Greener Citizens: Political Liberalism and a Robust Environmental Education
Online and on-the-Couch Virtuality: The real, the imagined, and the perverse
When God Commands Disobedience: Political Liberalism and Unreasonable Religions
Legal Status, Labelling, and Protection: The Case of Iraqi 'Refugees' in Jordan
Legal Status, Labelling, and Protection: the Case of Iraqi 'Refugees' in Jordan Dallal Stevens Dallal Stevens * * Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL; [email protected]. The author would like to thank the British Academy for its award of a small grant for this project; Professor Gillian Hundt, Dr Sahar Almakhamreh, Dr Mahasen Aljaghoub, and Dr Salah Alzaroo for their advice, participation and help …
Does self-efficacy mediate transfer effects in the learning of easy and difficult motor skills
The effect of task difficulty on inter-task transfer is a classic issue in motor learning. We examined the relation between self-efficacy and transfer of learning after practicing different versions of a stick balancing task. Practicing the same task or an easier version led to significant pre- to post-test transfer of learning, whereas practicing a more difficult version did not. Self-efficacy increased modestly from pre- to post-test with easy …
From Deliberative Democracy to Utopophobia: Themes from Estlund's Democratic Authority
Critically Enlightened Romantic Values and English Pedagogy: A Response to Peter Medway
In this response to Peter Medway's paper, ‘English and Enlightenment’ (Changing English 17:1, 2010 Medway, P. 2010. English and Enlightenment. Changing English, 17(1): 3–12. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]), I take issue with little of what he so lucidly writes, except his implicit and occasionally explicit denunciation of Romanticism as the proper basis of English pedagogy. I am concerned in this paper to emphasise the positive aspe…
Reasons to be Fearful, One, Two, Three: The ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ Agenda
In an oft-neglected chapter of his Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith applies his economic arguments to the question of religious groups, arguing that a peaceable society is most efficiently secured not by state sponsorship of religion, but by an absence of support; in essence a free market of religious ideas. This article applies Smith's insights, and the wealth of supporting material from the intervening years, to the question of Islamic radicalisat…
In Extremis: A Self‐defeating Element in the ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ Strategy
The main policy reaction to the terrorist attacks of 7/7 and 21/7 of 2005 has been the development of the £6 million ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ (PVE) initiative which aims, as part of the government's broader counter‐terrorism strategy (CONTEST), to tackle support for, and the promotion of, violent Islamist ideologies within British society. One crucial component of this strategy is providing support for Muslim groups and individuals to tackl…
Literacy and citizenship: An intercultural perspective
In this paper I report on a small scale teaching project indicated by the general title above. The overall aim of the project has been to investigate and if possible enhance pupils' understanding and experience of two key areas of contemporary educational concern - literacy and citizenship - through a creative intercultural perspective. The teaching and research seek to suggest both connections and contrasts, starting from a critical cultural awa…
Crossing Moral `No-Man's Land
Reasonableness and Inequality in Rawls's Defence of Global Justice
The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty and Community
Teaching Critical Observation as a Sociological Tool
DURING MANY QUARTERS teaching an ethnographic field methods class, we noticed that undergraduates commonly have trouble linking macro structures to the micro interactions they observe in their fieldwork. Students are likely to draw hasty conclusions about the organizations and people with which they interact, using observations to support rather than critically examine their pre-existing beliefs. For example, despite evident inequalities in the d…
Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice
This book provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.
Southern Trident: Strategy, History, and the Rise of Australian Naval Power
1580-18802 Sea power in modern strategy3 History and theory: the Clausewitzian ideal and its implications4 Imperial naval defence-a model for transnationalism: a Canadian perspective5 Maritime forces and expeditionary strategies: we are all Corbettians now6 Strategic culture and the Australian way of warfare: perspectivesPART II PERSPECTIVES ON IMPERIAL AND AUSTRALIAN NAVAL DEFENCE 7 Australia, the Trentcrisis of 1861 and the strategy of imperial…
Legal Status, Labelling, and Protection: The Case of Iraqi 'Refugees' in Jordan
Legal Status, Labelling, and Protection: the Case of Iraqi 'Refugees' in Jordan Dallal Stevens Dallal Stevens * * Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL; [email protected]. The author would like to thank the British Academy for its award of a small grant for this project; Professor Gillian Hundt, Dr Sahar Almakhamreh, Dr Mahasen Aljaghoub, and Dr Salah Alzaroo for their advice, participation and help …
When God Commands Disobedience: Political Liberalism and Unreasonable Religions
In Extremis: A Self‐defeating Element in the ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ Strategy
The main policy reaction to the terrorist attacks of 7/7 and 21/7 of 2005 has been the development of the £6 million ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ (PVE) initiative which aims, as part of the government's broader counter‐terrorism strategy (CONTEST), to tackle support for, and the promotion of, violent Islamist ideologies within British society. One crucial component of this strategy is providing support for Muslim groups and individuals to tackl…
A Potential Avenue for Academic Success: Hope Predicts an Achievement-Oriented Psychosocial Profile in African American Adolescents
In a sample of 117 African American students, we examined how well hope predicts five psychosocial variables-school belonging, academic self-concept, goal valuation, attitude toward teachers, and academic motivation/self-regulation-that altogether make up an achievement-oriented psychosocial profile. Results indicated that, after controlling for demographics and previous achievement, the subscales of hope accounted for a meaningful portion of all…
Between State and Market: Essays on Charities Law and Policy in Canada
The first section of the book contains an overview of the charitable sector in Canada, a sociological review of altruism in different societies, a discussion of altruism in various philosophical and religious traditions, an economic analysis of "rational voluntarism," and an assessment of the relationship between the charitable sector and the welfare state. The second section contains five papers on the legal definition of charity, both general (…
Further Thoughts on Talking to the Unreasonable: A Response to Wong
In ‘When God Commands Disobedience’ (Clayton and Stevens 2014) we address the question of how Rawlsian political liberals should treat the religiously unreasonable. The religiously unreasonable are those who, for reasons of religious faith or perceived divine command, reject one or more of the fundamental principles of society as a cooperative enterprise between free and equal people, and who may seek to change (or even punish) the political comm…
The Case of the Chingford Skinhead: John White on Education and Special Obligations between Fellow Nationals
This article questions whether it is legitimate to propagate national sentiment and foster ties of nationality through school curricula. Against certain arguments for the ethical significance of nationality I question whether those who share a national identity have special moral obligations to members of their national group that they do not have to other persons. I argue that such ties of sentiment are unnecessary for achieving principled liber…
Creating Greener Citizens: Political Liberalism and a Robust Environmental Education
Online and on-the-Couch Virtuality: The real, the imagined, and the perverse
Reasons to be Fearful, One, Two, Three: The ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ Agenda
In an oft-neglected chapter of his Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith applies his economic arguments to the question of religious groups, arguing that a peaceable society is most efficiently secured not by state sponsorship of religion, but by an absence of support; in essence a free market of religious ideas. This article applies Smith's insights, and the wealth of supporting material from the intervening years, to the question of Islamic radicalisat…
Reasonableness and Inequality in Rawls's Defence of Global Justice
Teaching Critical Observation as a Sociological Tool
DURING MANY QUARTERS teaching an ethnographic field methods class, we noticed that undergraduates commonly have trouble linking macro structures to the micro interactions they observe in their fieldwork. Students are likely to draw hasty conclusions about the organizations and people with which they interact, using observations to support rather than critically examine their pre-existing beliefs. For example, despite evident inequalities in the d…
Stage Images and Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford
This book looks at the traditions behind some of the common images that appeared on stage in the early seventeenth century. The years 1607 14 are particularly important, not only because of developments taking place in the playhouses, but also for the variety of drama on offer. The discussion includes Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline and The Duchess of Malfi at the Globe and Blackfriars, The White Devil at the Red Bull, a court masque and later plays…
The First Public Playhouse: The Theatre in Shoreditch, 1576-1598
English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (1642-1780)
The Dragon of Wu-Foo
The Staging of Plays at the Salisbury Court Theatre, 1630-1642
The Salisbury Court Theatre was the last London playhouse to be built before all theatres were closed by the Puritans in 1642. Although we know that the theatre was converted from a barn standing on a piece of property measuring 140 feet by 42 feet at a cost of ?1200,1 and we can now locate the property with some precision,2 there are no extant illustrations or descriptions of the interior of the Salisbury Court, as there are for its contemporary…
The First Public Playhouse: The Theatre in Shoreditch, 1576-1598
Notes & Queries
Historical note: The Saskatchewan Public Administration Foundation, 1963‐66
Greek-Jewish Musical Traditions
Safety specialists in industry: Roles, constraints and opportunities
This paper comments on the slow and uneven occupational development of safety specialists in British industry. It provides an analysis of possible strategies for safety specialists by identifying three main areas of activity: processing and generating information, giving advice and participating in problem‐solving, and taking direct action. These may be practised at each of the following five stages involved in the technical control of hazards: i…
Shakespeare the Director
Restitution, Property, and the Cause of Action in Unjust Enrichment: Getting by with Fewer Things Part II
David Stevens, Restitution, Property, and the Cause of Action in Unjust Enrichment: Getting by with Fewer Things Part II, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Autumn, 1989), pp. 325-360
Restitution, Property, and the Cause of Action in Unjust Enrichment: Getting by with Fewer Things Part I
David Stevens, Restitution, Property, and the Cause of Action in Unjust Enrichment: Getting by with Fewer Things Part I, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Summer, 1989), pp. 258-317
Stage Images and Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford
This book looks at the traditions behind some of the common images that appeared on stage in the early seventeenth century. The years 1607 14 are particularly important, not only because of developments taking place in the playhouses, but also for the variety of drama on offer. The discussion includes Macbeth, Pericles, Cymbeline and The Duchess of Malfi at the Globe and Blackfriars, The White Devil at the Red Bull, a court masque and later plays…
The Mockingbird in the Gum Tree: A Literary Gallimaufry
Forty-Third Class of Congressional Fellows Begins 1995–96 Program
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Section News: The Presidency Research Group and the Archivist of the United States
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The Case of the Chingford Skinhead: John White on Education and Special Obligations between Fellow Nationals
This article questions whether it is legitimate to propagate national sentiment and foster ties of nationality through school curricula. Against certain arguments for the ethical significance of nationality I question whether those who share a national identity have special moral obligations to members of their national group that they do not have to other persons. I argue that such ties of sentiment are unnecessary for achieving principled liber…
William Blake in Education: A poet for our times
(2000). William Blake in Education: A poet for our times? Changing English: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 55-63
Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice
This book provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.
Southern Trident: Strategy, History, and the Rise of Australian Naval Power
1580-18802 Sea power in modern strategy3 History and theory: the Clausewitzian ideal and its implications4 Imperial naval defence-a model for transnationalism: a Canadian perspective5 Maritime forces and expeditionary strategies: we are all Corbettians now6 Strategic culture and the Australian way of warfare: perspectivesPART II PERSPECTIVES ON IMPERIAL AND AUSTRALIAN NAVAL DEFENCE 7 Australia, the Trentcrisis of 1861 and the strategy of imperial…
Between State and Market: Essays on Charities Law and Policy in Canada
The first section of the book contains an overview of the charitable sector in Canada, a sociological review of altruism in different societies, a discussion of altruism in various philosophical and religious traditions, an economic analysis of "rational voluntarism," and an assessment of the relationship between the charitable sector and the welfare state. The second section contains five papers on the legal definition of charity, both general (…
Teaching Critical Observation as a Sociological Tool
DURING MANY QUARTERS teaching an ethnographic field methods class, we noticed that undergraduates commonly have trouble linking macro structures to the micro interactions they observe in their fieldwork. Students are likely to draw hasty conclusions about the organizations and people with which they interact, using observations to support rather than critically examine their pre-existing beliefs. For example, despite evident inequalities in the d…
Crossing Moral `No-Man's Land
Reasonableness and Inequality in Rawls's Defence of Global Justice
The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty and Community
Literacy and citizenship: An intercultural perspective
In this paper I report on a small scale teaching project indicated by the general title above. The overall aim of the project has been to investigate and if possible enhance pupils' understanding and experience of two key areas of contemporary educational concern - literacy and citizenship - through a creative intercultural perspective. The teaching and research seek to suggest both connections and contrasts, starting from a critical cultural awa…
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