John Preston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3677362 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John Preston |
| NOMBRES | John |
| APELLIDO | Preston |
| FIRMA | PRESTON J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of East London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1219-4108 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 69 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 308 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 6 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1919 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Rethinking race theory in education
Race theory in education is locked into a mode of critique that accepts conventional categories of political economy and essentialises race and education as timeless. Attempts to build economic factors into CRT (Critical Race Theory) and recent attempts to combine CRT with theories of racialised social systems to create Racialised Social Systems (RSS) Theory do not enable a negative critique of capitalism. Social Reproduction Theory (SRT) and Mar…
Utopia in the Factory
In 2018
Investigating correlates of personal and freight road transport energy consumption
In most countries worldwide, the transport sector is responsible for a large proportion of energy consumption, the emissions of which have adverse effects on the environment and human health. It is therefore important to understand the determinants of road transport energy consumption in an attempt to minimise these adverse effects. This paper examines the association which road transport energy consumption, for both personal and freight uses, ha…
Schools and emergency feeding in a national crisis in the United Kingdom
The role of 'class strategies' in policy formation is sometimes unseen as plans are unrealised in practice over long periods of historical time. 'Subterranean class strategies' are an extension of existing work on class to consider 'class work' on policy in the 'long unenacted' . Using the example of emergency feeding in a national crisis, the stark difference in school meal planning for post-World War 2 emergencies when compared to the COVID-19 …
Investigating the association between neighbourhood characteristics and e-scooter safety
The uptake of e-scooters as an alternative mode of travel has risen sharply in recent years; however, their safety is less-understood compared to other modes of travel. For the first time in the extant literature, we explore the association between neighbourhood characteristics and e-scooter safety in Greater London, UK. We found that, over the study period, the expected e-scooter crash frequency was the highest in the City of London, followed by…
Interpreting Mach
This volume presents new essays on the work and thought of physicist, psychologist, and philosopher Ernst Mach. Moving away from previous estimations of Mach as a pre-logical positivist, the essays reflect his rehabilitation as a thinker of direct relevance to debates in the contemporary philosophies of natural science, psychology, metaphysics, and mind. Topics covered include Mach's work on acoustical psychophysics and physics; his ideas on anal…
Interpreting Mach
Richard Polt
Portland, Maine
(The following selection is an autobiographical essay, not a work of fiction.)
Grenfell Tower
Dynamic beach response to changing storminess of Unst, Shetland
We present major new findings on the stability of Norse landing places on the island of Unst, Shetland, using a combination of geomorphology, OSL dating, fetch analysis, and sediment transport modeling. Islanders needed reliable access to the sea, and exploited sandy beaches as safe landing places. The persistence of beaches was important for long-term continuity of settlement and could be threatened by stormy conditions. Sediment modeling undert…
Critical Race Theory in England
New routes on old railways
Preparing for disaster
This article explores policy approaches to educating populations for potential critical infrastructure collapse in five different countries: the UK, the US, Germany, Japan and New Zealand. ‘Critical infrastructure’ is not always easy to define, and indeed is defined slightly differently across countries – it includes entities vital to life, such as utilities (water, energy), transportation systems and communications, and may also include social a…
From Aberfan to the ‘Canvey Factor’
Children, and schools, are potent symbols of victimhood in industrial disasters. In the case of historical industrial disasters such as Aberfan and Flixborough, and in terms of preparation for future industrial disasters under Control of Major Accident Hazard regulations, communities are seen as passive responders to accidents. Moreover, following industrial accidents, communities are frequently accused of culpability or profiting from the disast…
The rise of western rationalism
City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Two nations underground
In the 1960s federal agencies in the US encouraged the building of protected schools designed to survive a nuclear attack. A number of designs, including underground schools, were constructed. In order to promote the building of protected schools, the US government produced a number of propaganda films for school boards and governors. In addition to promoting post-nuclear survival, these films considered that protected schools were beneficial in …
Community response in disasters
Natural disasters are frequently exacerbated by anthropogenic mechanisms and have social and political consequences for communities. The role of community learning in disasters is seen to be increasingly important. However, the ways in which such learning unfolds in a disaster can differ substantially from case to case. This article uses a comparative case study methodology to examine catastrophes and major disasters from five countries (Japan, N…
A Golden Age of Security and Education? Adult Education for Civil Defence in the United States 1950–1970
A number of authors consider that the early period of US security and education (1950–1970) was in some way a ‘golden age’ where there was a prevailing societal orientation towards civil defence. This is supported, to some extent, through ‘Duck and Cover’ type activities in schools and in community preparedness efforts. This article considers whether this portrayal is necessarily correct in the case of adult education. From an analysis of previou…
City Evacuations
The ‘state of exception’ and disaster education
The term ‘state of exception’ has been used by Italian political theorist Giorgio Agamben to explain the ways in which emergencies, crises and disasters are used by governments to suspend legal processes. In this paper, we innovatively apply Agamben's theory to the way in which countries prepare and educate the population for various types of emergencies. We focus on two main aspects of Agamben's work: first, the paradoxical nature of the state o…
Technology and Teaching
Technology is often touted as the savior of education (Collins & Haverson, 2009). However, is technology the panacea that it is made out to be? This paper is an extended conversation among a group of faculty members at three different universities and their attitudes and beliefs about technology and education. Three professors shared their pro-technology stance and three took a less favorable view. The contents of the conversation were then analy…
The Fate of Wonder
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein has been well-served by biographers. In addition to the two very well-known classics (Ray Monk’s Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, and Brian McGuinness’s Young Ludwig), w
Accessibility, mobility and transport-related social exclusion
The Intention to Move and Residential Location Choice Behaviour
This paper aims to quantify the extent to which transport and other factors impact on residential decisions using Oxfordshire, UK, as a case study. It investigates the impacts of the current dwelling, household characteristics and alternative properties on the probability of moving. It also highlights the trade-off between access, space and other attributes in residential location choice. Particular emphasis is placed on assessing the impact of t…
Education, Equality and Social Cohesion
Promoting social cohesion through education has re-emerged as an important policy objective in many countries during the past decade. But there is little clarity in policy discussions about what social cohesion means and how education may affect it. In this article we distinguish between social capital and societal cohesion and argue that education acts in differential ways on each. Using comparative, cross-country analysis, we develop a 'distrib…
Integrating transport with socio-economic activity – a research agenda for the new millennium
Protect and Survive
Civil defence pedagogies' normalise continuous emergency through educational channels such as school, community and adult education. Using critical whiteness studies, and critiques of white supremacy from critical race theory, as a conceptual base, the protection of whiteness, and particularly the white middle‐class family, is considered to be centrally important to civil defence in education. Civil defence is not only classed and state‐centred, …
Concrete and Abstract Racial Domination
The debate between Mike Cole and David Gillborn which has raged in Power and Education and elsewhere is indicative of a widening schism between Marxism and critical race theory. To describe this debate as orientated around the status of ‘race’ or ‘class' as the central object of social theory, such as in the current debate about the ‘white working class' in education, is unhelpful. Rather than see race and class as interdependent systems of concr…
Prosthetic white hyper-masculinities and ‘disaster education
Critiques of Whiteness Studies paradoxically focus on embodiment whether this is whiteness as an embodied identity that has realist properties or the inscription of labouring bodies through a process of racialization. In this article I consider the ways in which whiteness may be best understood as a prosthetic that can situationally be attached/detached from white bodies. Paradoxically, this flexibility of whiteness increases white people’s power…
Enrolling alone?' Lifelong learning and social capital in England
This paper examines the relationship between education, learning and civic participation arising from 120 biographical interviews conducted with respondents in three areas of England. Through analysis of individual biographies, it is argued that the relationship between education, learning and the generation of ‘bonding’ social capital is largely unrealistic. Rather, there emerge three loose typologies of relationship between education and civic …
Community response in disasters
Natural disasters are frequently exacerbated by anthropogenic mechanisms and have social and political consequences for communities. The role of community learning in disasters is seen to be increasingly important. However, the ways in which such learning unfolds in a disaster can differ substantially from case to case. This article uses a comparative case study methodology to examine catastrophes and major disasters from five countries (Japan, N…
The ‘state of exception’ and disaster education
The term ‘state of exception’ has been used by Italian political theorist Giorgio Agamben to explain the ways in which emergencies, crises and disasters are used by governments to suspend legal processes. In this paper, we innovatively apply Agamben's theory to the way in which countries prepare and educate the population for various types of emergencies. We focus on two main aspects of Agamben's work: first, the paradoxical nature of the state o…
Preparing for emergencies
Crises in national security and citizenship education have rarely been articulated in the same theoretical frame. Using state plans for recovery from nuclear war and for civil contingencies in the ‘war on terror’, this paper examines how plans for state collapse and reconstruction are articulated through existing forms of citizenship regime and pedagogy. Preparedness is becoming embedded within citizenship education as is the notion of security a…
Rediscovering ‘Race Traitor’
This article attempts to politically resituate Ignatiev and Garvey’s conception of the ‘Race Traitor’ within contemporary notions of Critical Race Theory and Public Pedagogy. Race Traitor has been critiqued both by those on the academic and neo-conservative right, who accuse advocates of the project of genocide and misuse of public funds, and has a number of critics on the left who consider that the project is misguided, posturing and self-affirm…
Emergency preparedness as public pedagogy
Emergency preparedness can be considered to be a form of lifelong learning and public pedagogy with implications for race equality. The paper is based on an ESRC project 'Preparedness pedagogies and race: an interdisciplinary approach' considering the policy process around the construction of the 'Preparing for Emergencies' (PFE) campaign. This campaign which appeared as a leaflet (distributed to every household in the UK) and as a television cam…
An Applied Ecological Framework for Evaluating Infrastructure to Promote Walking and Cycling
Improving infrastructure for walking and cycling is increasingly recommended as a means to promote physical activity, prevent obesity, and reduce traffic congestion and carbon emissions. However, limited evidence from intervention studies exists to support this approach. Drawing on classic epidemiological methods, psychological and ecological models of behavior change, and the principles of realistic evaluation, we have developed an applied ecolo…
Education and Social Cohesion
Education and Social Cohesion
Social Capital theory has tended to treat social cohesion as a mere aggregation of individual and community level characteristics, ignoring the long tradition of theory on social solidarity and social cohesion at the societal level. However, the key indicators of social capital ? associational membership and social trust ? do not co-vary cross nationally and societies rich in community level social capital are not always cohesive societies. Socia…
Feyerabend's Retreat from Realism
In attempting to assess the legacy of Paul Feyerabend's philosophical work, matters are complicated by the fact that there was a change in his basic orientation towards the philosophy of science around the end of the 1960s. Here I shall indicate one aspect of Feyerabend's divided legacy. My main aims are to sketch the principal themes in his (fairly extensive but little-known) 1990s output, to situate that later output insofar as it bears on the …
From Aberfan to the ‘Canvey Factor’
Children, and schools, are potent symbols of victimhood in industrial disasters. In the case of historical industrial disasters such as Aberfan and Flixborough, and in terms of preparation for future industrial disasters under Control of Major Accident Hazard regulations, communities are seen as passive responders to accidents. Moreover, following industrial accidents, communities are frequently accused of culpability or profiting from the disast…
Technology and Teaching
Technology is often touted as the savior of education (Collins & Haverson, 2009). However, is technology the panacea that it is made out to be? This paper is an extended conversation among a group of faculty members at three different universities and their attitudes and beliefs about technology and education. Three professors shared their pro-technology stance and three took a less favorable view. The contents of the conversation were then analy…
Critical Race Theory in England
In England, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is emerging as a focus point for work on race in the educational context, although compared to its birthplace in the USA it is in its infancy. It has faced st
Science as supermarket
Dynamic beach response to changing storminess of Unst, Shetland
We present major new findings on the stability of Norse landing places on the island of Unst, Shetland, using a combination of geomorphology, OSL dating, fetch analysis, and sediment transport modeling. Islanders needed reliable access to the sea, and exploited sandy beaches as safe landing places. The persistence of beaches was important for long-term continuity of settlement and could be threatened by stormy conditions. Sediment modeling undert…
The rise of western rationalism
Bird, Kuhn, and positivism
Preparing for disaster
This article explores policy approaches to educating populations for potential critical infrastructure collapse in five different countries: the UK, the US, Germany, Japan and New Zealand. ‘Critical infrastructure’ is not always easy to define, and indeed is defined slightly differently across countries – it includes entities vital to life, such as utilities (water, energy), transportation systems and communications, and may also include social a…
Letters
Some Letters of John Preston
Letters of John Preston
"Tom Jones and the "Pursuit of True Judgment
If the moral sense in Tom Jones is often felt to be ambiguous, this is perhaps because we do not find it, as we expect, in the action. Take, for instance, Tom's affair with Molly Seagrim. His remorse, prompting him to make amends to her, leads him to find her in bed with Square and then to discover that she had been first seduced by Will Barnes. His generous impulse leads to the knowledge that will release him: ' Jones was become perfectly easy b…
Plot as Irony
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Selection of Volunteers for Telephone Crisis Intervention Centers
This research explores the selection of telephone crisis-intervention volunteers. Both demographic information and personality variables differentiate 30 accepted from 30 rejected volunteers and also differentiate 15 highest rated from 15 lowest rated volunteers
Abbreviated Forms of the Wisc-R
The purpose of the present study was to validate the effectiveness of three forms of abbreviated WISC-Rs. 100 protocols from a group of mentally retarded and language/learning impaired children were rescored according to three different methods of abbreviation previously used with the WISC. Part-whole correlations, correlations of IQs from the original and short-forms, were quite high for each of the short-form methods, ranging from .92 to .93 fo…
A Philosophical Landscape’ Susanna Drury and the Giant's Causeway
Martyn Anglesea, John Preston; ‘A Philosophical Landscape’ Susanna Drury and the Giant's Causeway, Art History, Volume 3, Issue 3, 1 September 1980, Pages
Frictionless philosophy
L'A. etudie la theorie de la connaissance relativiste de Feyerabend. Il montre comment il refute la critique platoniste du relativisme et comment comprendre la survenance pour conserner une position non dogmatique tout en evitant de mettre le pouvoir normatif de la raison a la merci de celui des groupes sociaux
Feyerabend's Retreat from Realism
In attempting to assess the legacy of Paul Feyerabend's philosophical work, matters are complicated by the fact that there was a change in his basic orientation towards the philosophy of science around the end of the 1960s. Here I shall indicate one aspect of Feyerabend's divided legacy. My main aims are to sketch the principal themes in his (fairly extensive but little-known) 1990s output, to situate that later output insofar as it bears on the …
Relativism and conceptual schemes
Thought and Language
The relationship between thought and language has been of central importance to philosophy ever since Plato characterised thinking as 'a dialogue the soul has with itself'. In this volume, several major twentieth-century philosophers of mind and language make further contributions to the debate. Among the questions addressed are: is language conceptually prior to thought, or vice versa? Must thought take place 'in' a medium? To what extent can cr…
Foreword to chapter 1
Science as supermarket
Author's response
Integrating transport with socio-economic activity – a research agenda for the new millennium
Education and Social Cohesion
Education and Social Cohesion
Social Capital theory has tended to treat social cohesion as a mere aggregation of individual and community level characteristics, ignoring the long tradition of theory on social solidarity and social cohesion at the societal level. However, the key indicators of social capital ? associational membership and social trust ? do not co-vary cross nationally and societies rich in community level social capital are not always cohesive societies. Socia…
Education, Equality and Social Cohesion
Promoting social cohesion through education has re-emerged as an important policy objective in many countries during the past decade. But there is little clarity in policy discussions about what social cohesion means and how education may affect it. In this article we distinguish between social capital and societal cohesion and argue that education acts in differential ways on each. Using comparative, cross-country analysis, we develop a 'distrib…
Enrolling alone?' Lifelong learning and social capital in England
This paper examines the relationship between education, learning and civic participation arising from 120 biographical interviews conducted with respondents in three areas of England. Through analysis of individual biographies, it is argued that the relationship between education, learning and the generation of ‘bonding’ social capital is largely unrealistic. Rather, there emerge three loose typologies of relationship between education and civic …
The Benefits of Learning
Benefits of Learning
Bird, Kuhn, and positivism
The Intention to Move and Residential Location Choice Behaviour
This paper aims to quantify the extent to which transport and other factors impact on residential decisions using Oxfordshire, UK, as a case study. It investigates the impacts of the current dwelling, household characteristics and alternative properties on the probability of moving. It also highlights the trade-off between access, space and other attributes in residential location choice. Particular emphasis is placed on assessing the impact of t…
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