Jon Nixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3701136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jon Nixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jon |
| FAMILY NAME | Nixon |
| SIGNATURE | NIXON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Education and intercultural identity: A dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera
Education and intercultural identity: a dialogue between Zygmunt Bauman and Agostino Portera." Comparative Education, 58(4), pp. 562–563
Rosa Luxemburg and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal
Humanities in post-enlightenment and global Europe
The storm from paradise
Higher Education in Austerity Europe
The financial crisis of 2007/2008 prompted governments across Europe to adopt austerity measures aimed at the reduction of their escalating budget deficits. Higher Education in Austerity Europe explores how the resulting cuts in public expenditure - together with the increasing reliance on the privatisation of services - have impacted on higher education directly through the reduction of public sector provision and indirectly as a result of the s…
Struggles within and for higher education
We ‘blast open the continuum of history’, as Walter Benjamin put it in his Theses on the Philosophy of History, not by journeying back to some imagined ‘once upon a time’ nor in casting ourselves f
Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers: The time of friendship
This paper provides an introduction to the enduring friendship between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers. It shows how their intellectual development as public educators was sustained by their ongoing dialogue which flourished not in spite of but because of their huge differences of circumstance and personality. This friendship between two renowned scholars raises – by implication at least – the question as to what part friendship plays in academic …
First Freire: Early writings in social justice education
I approached this book with great respect for its author and its subject: both highly influential public educators and major figures in the struggle for social justice within Latin America. As firs
The Drift to Conformity: The Myth of Institutional Diversity
Over the last 25 years, the ranking of universities according to their research output has shaped the United Kingdom (UK) higher education sector as a whole and had a profound impact on individual institutions. More recently, it has been one of the main mechanisms whereby the UK higher education sector has sought to raise its profile globally. Measures other than research inform the overall ranking of institutions, but within the UK the emphasis …
Educational publishing: Graphosphere', 'Videosphere' or 'Public Sphere
This article focuses on the current state of the educational book publishing industry within the UK in the aftermath of the 2008 global recession. Following two previous surveys reported in Nixon (1999) and Nixon and Wellington (2005), the article draws on the views of educational publishers to identify current issues and future trends within the educational publishing industry. In the opening section of the article we focus on the book publishin…
Public educators as interpretive critics: Edward Said and Raymond Williams
The work of Edward Said and Raymond Williams exemplifies an important aspect of the role of the public intellectual as educator. This paper concentrates on the significance of their work as public educators and on the tradition of interpretive criticism as they developed it within the field of literary and cultural theory. The argument builds from the assumptions that (1) the work of these two very different critics provides important methodologi…
Richard Hoggart’s legacy for democratic education
This article argues that Richard Hoggart’s legacy for democratic education is to be found in the moral unity of his life and work: his life as an adult educator, university professor, and international administrator; his distinctive idiom as writer and critic; and his commitment to education as a deeply deliberative process of widening participation. The right use of judgement is central to the life, the idiom and the commitment. As an abiding pr…
Relationships of virtue: Rethinking the goods of civil association
This paper focuses, not on the existing conditions of institutional association, but on hoped-for conditions that would have to be met for professional relationships within higher education to aspire to what Aristotle referred to as ‘virtuous friendship’. Such relationships, it is argued, constitute the social content of hope in that they look to new perspectives on institutional renewal and professional regeneration. They provide a context of mu…
Towards a Hermeneutics of Hope: The legacy of Edward W. Said
This paper focuses primarily on the later work of Said. After a brief review of what Said himself saw as formative events in his life it reviews the tradition of “philological hermeneutics” as Said himself defined it and within which he located his own work as a scholar. His key themes of intertextuality, post-colonialism, and receptivity/resistance are discussed as important elements linking that tradition to the particular style and substance o…
Good books’: Is there a future for academic writing within the educational publishing industry
This paper draws on questionnaire responses received (via e‐mail) during the period 2002–2003 from senior commissioning editors located within seven of the major UK publishing outlets. Drawing on the analytical framework of an earlier study by Nixon (1999 Nixon, J. (1999). Teachers, writers, professionals. Is there anybody out there. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20(2): 207–221. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google…
Shaping the field: The role of academic journal editors in the construction of education as a field of study
In a previous British Journal of Sociology of Education article (Nixon & Wellington, 2005 Nixon, J. and Wellington, J. 2005. ‘Good books’: is there a future for academic writing within the educational publishing industry?. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26(1): 91–103. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) we examined current trends in book publishing and how these have influenced and will influence the cons…
Professional renewal as a condition of institutional change: Rethinking academic work
This article adopts a polemical stance in arguing that the new public management of higher education has failed to address the changing social conditions within which universities are located.The solutions offered by the new public management are thus part of the problem, not part of the solution.What is required is a sense of professional renewal whereby academic workers re-orientate themselves to a changing world of increased individualisation …
Professional renewal as a condition of institutional change: Rethinking academic work
This article adopts a polemical stance in arguing that the new ublic management of higher education has failed to address the changing social conditions within which universities are located. The solutions offered by the new public management are thus part of the problem, not part of the solution. What is required is a sense of professional renewal whereby academic workers re-orientate themselves to a changing world of increased individualisation…
From Washington Heights to the Raploch: Evidence, Mediation, and the Genealogy of Policy
This paper provides an analysis of the New Community Schools (NCS) initiative as developed in Scotland. As our analysis makes clear the evidential base of this development was, at the outset, extremely slender. From that base, however, NCS has migrated to diverse localities within which it has had significant impact while itself being impacted upon by local conditions and contexts. We are particularly interested in the democratic potential of thi…
The cultural mediation of state policy: The democratic potential of new community schooling in Scotland
The purpose of this paper is to assess the democratic potential of New Community Schools (NCS) as developed by the Scottish Executive in one of its first major educational initiatives. It traces the background to the initiative, locates it within the particular circumstances of the historical, political and cultural contexts of Scotland, and defines its particular ambivalence with regard to deliberative democracy. This ambivalence, it is argued, …
Towards a New Academic Professionalism: A manifesto of hope
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate debate on developments within higher education. It is concerned primarily with the hopeful working out of a new kind of professional ethic. It explores the extent to which and ways in which academic staff working within the context of higher education might be seen as professionals with a shared set of values and expectations. It argues that the changing conditions of higher education have made it extreme…
Educational renewal as democratic practice: New' community schooling in Scotland
This paper focuses on the New Community Schools (NCS) initiative as currently being developed in Scotland. This major 5-year programme is one of a raft of educational initiatives that the Scottish Executive is supporting across local authorities. Drawing on documentary evidence and interview data, we discuss the potential of this programme for professional renewal across a range of occupational groups involved in NCS: community, health and social…
Educational renewal as democratic practice: New' community schooling in Scotland
This paper focuses on the New Community Schools (NCS) initiative as currently being developed in Scotland. This major 5-year programme is one of a raft of educational initiatives that the Scottish Executive is supporting across local authorities. Drawing on documentary evidence and interview data, we discuss the potential of this programme for professional renewal across a range of occupational groups involved in NCS: community, health and social…
Towards a New Academic Professionalism: A manifesto of hope
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate debate on developments within higher education. It is concerned primarily with the hopeful working out of a new kind of professional ethic. It explores the extent to which and ways in which academic staff working within the context of higher education might be seen as professionals with a shared set of values and expectations. It argues that the changing conditions of higher education have made it extreme…
Not Without Dust and Heat’: The Moral Bases of the ‘New’ Academic Professionalism
This paper challenges the view that academic professionalism resides in the professional ‘autonomy’ of the academic, the ‘self-regulation’ of academics as an occupational group, and the differential ‘status’ of academic workers. This still influential (though residual) notion of academic professionalism, it is argued, leads to institutional stasis. What is required is greater reflexivity by academics in respect of their underlying professional va…
School Work, Homework and Gender
This paper explores female and male students' attitudes towards school work in terms of application and achievement. The data are drawn from interviews with students, teachers, careers officers and welfare officers in three semi‐rural comprehensive schools in one local education authority (LEA) [1]. (The students were in their last year of compulsory schooling, Year 11, and were aged 16 [2].) The three schools had invited the authors to explore w…
Not Without Dust and Heat’: The Moral Bases of the ‘New’ Academic Professionalism
This paper challenges the view that academic professionalism resides in the professional ‘autonomy’ of the academic, the ‘self-regulation’ of academics as an occupational group, and the differential ‘status’ of academic workers. This still influential (though residual) notion of academic professionalism, it is argued, leads to institutional stasis. What is required is greater reflexivity by academics in respect of their underlying professional va…
Theorising 'Agreement: The Moral Bases of the Emergent Professionalism Within the 'New' Management of Education
(1997). Theorising ‘Agreement’: the moral bases of the emergent professionalism within the ‘new’ management of education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 197-214
Professional identity and the restructuring of higher education
Higher education has undergone immense changes over the last 30 years. These changes, involving the fragmentation of the academic workplace together with increased differentials between individuals in respect of status and autonomy, have had a profound effect on the role of university teachers and on their sense of professional identity. Nevertheless, university teachers have important insights to bring to the debate on higher education. This pap…
Towards a Learning Profession: Changing codes of occupational practice within the new management of education
Professionals were once considered to be the civic leaders, the deliverers of the good society. However, the old order has cracked under the pressure of social change, leaving a very different relation between professionals and their publics. This paper addresses some of the questions occasioned by these changes: Where does the altered power relation between parents, students and teachers leave the notion of teacher professionalism? What is the r…
Professional renewal as a condition of institutional change: Rethinking academic work
This article adopts a polemical stance in arguing that the new ublic management of higher education has failed to address the changing social conditions within which universities are located. The solutions offered by the new public management are thus part of the problem, not part of the solution. What is required is a sense of professional renewal whereby academic workers re-orientate themselves to a changing world of increased individualisation…
Educational renewal as democratic practice: New' community schooling in Scotland
This paper focuses on the New Community Schools (NCS) initiative as currently being developed in Scotland. This major 5-year programme is one of a raft of educational initiatives that the Scottish Executive is supporting across local authorities. Drawing on documentary evidence and interview data, we discuss the potential of this programme for professional renewal across a range of occupational groups involved in NCS: community, health and social…
Teachers, Writers, Professionals. Is there anybody out there
This paper draws on questionnaire responses from senior commissioning editors located within nine of the major UK education publishing outlets. It explores changing priorities in educational publishing with reference to authorship, readership and the changing policy context within which publishing 'lists' are conceived, developed and marketed. The shift of orientation within educational publishing from a 'general' to a 'professionalised' public i…
Confronting ‘failure’: Towards a pedagogy of recognition
This paper is based on an in‐depth study of nine secondary schools situated in contexts of disadvantage across the national regions of the UK. First, we examine the construction of educational ‘failure’ by exploring the impact of disadvantage on the quality of learning and the identity of learners in one of the case‐study schools which (like several others) is situated within a large postwar housing development. We then analyse various kinds of i…
School govenance for the civil society: Redefining the boundary between schools and parents
1996). School govenance for the civil society: Redefining the boundary between schools and parents. Local Government Studies: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 210-228
Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers: The time of friendship
This paper provides an introduction to the enduring friendship between Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers. It shows how their intellectual development as public educators was sustained by their ongoing dialogue which flourished not in spite of but because of their huge differences of circumstance and personality. This friendship between two renowned scholars raises – by implication at least – the question as to what part friendship plays in academic …
First Freire: Early writings in social justice education
I approached this book with great respect for its author and its subject: both highly influential public educators and major figures in the struggle for social justice within Latin America. As firs
Towards a Hermeneutics of Hope: The legacy of Edward W. Said
This paper focuses primarily on the later work of Said. After a brief review of what Said himself saw as formative events in his life it reviews the tradition of “philological hermeneutics” as Said himself defined it and within which he located his own work as a scholar. His key themes of intertextuality, post-colonialism, and receptivity/resistance are discussed as important elements linking that tradition to the particular style and substance o…
Public educators as interpretive critics: Edward Said and Raymond Williams
The work of Edward Said and Raymond Williams exemplifies an important aspect of the role of the public intellectual as educator. This paper concentrates on the significance of their work as public educators and on the tradition of interpretive criticism as they developed it within the field of literary and cultural theory. The argument builds from the assumptions that (1) the work of these two very different critics provides important methodologi…
Good books’: Is there a future for academic writing within the educational publishing industry
This paper draws on questionnaire responses received (via e‐mail) during the period 2002–2003 from senior commissioning editors located within seven of the major UK publishing outlets. Drawing on the analytical framework of an earlier study by Nixon (1999 Nixon, J. (1999). Teachers, writers, professionals. Is there anybody out there. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 20(2): 207–221. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google…
Shaping the field: The role of academic journal editors in the construction of education as a field of study
In a previous British Journal of Sociology of Education article (Nixon & Wellington, 2005 Nixon, J. and Wellington, J. 2005. ‘Good books’: is there a future for academic writing within the educational publishing industry?. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 26(1): 91–103. [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) we examined current trends in book publishing and how these have influenced and will influence the cons…
From Washington Heights to the Raploch: Evidence, Mediation, and the Genealogy of Policy
This paper provides an analysis of the New Community Schools (NCS) initiative as developed in Scotland. As our analysis makes clear the evidential base of this development was, at the outset, extremely slender. From that base, however, NCS has migrated to diverse localities within which it has had significant impact while itself being impacted upon by local conditions and contexts. We are particularly interested in the democratic potential of thi…
University-based initial teacher education: Institutional re-positioning and professional renewal
The emphasis on 'partnership' in initial teacher education is a matter not just of organisational structure but of professional practices and purposes. If universities are to remain key players in initial teacher education, they must support the occupational group that represents the sector's interests and values: university-based initial teacher educators. Currently, however, this occupational group is awkwardly positioned between competing sets…
Richard Hoggart’s legacy for democratic education
This article argues that Richard Hoggart’s legacy for democratic education is to be found in the moral unity of his life and work: his life as an adult educator, university professor, and international administrator; his distinctive idiom as writer and critic; and his commitment to education as a deeply deliberative process of widening participation. The right use of judgement is central to the life, the idiom and the commitment. As an abiding pr…
Towards a New Academic Professionalism: A manifesto of hope
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate debate on developments within higher education. It is concerned primarily with the hopeful working out of a new kind of professional ethic. It explores the extent to which and ways in which academic staff working within the context of higher education might be seen as professionals with a shared set of values and expectations. It argues that the changing conditions of higher education have made it extreme…
The role of professional judgment in the local inspection of schools: A study of six local education authorities
Over the last five years, professional judgment ‐‐ as it relates to education and schooling ‐‐ has become increasingly politicized and problematic: politicized because of the structures of public accountability that now surround it; problematic because of the unresolved tensions between these structures and the ways in which professionals have traditionally exercised their judgment. This paper offers an analysis of these unresolved tensions as th…
The teacher as researcher: Contradictions and continuities
(1987). The teacher as researcher: Contradictions and continuities. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 64, The Potential and Practice of Action Research Part 1, pp. 20-32
Multi-ethnic education in inner London
(1981). Multi‐ethnic education in inner London. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 381-398
Multicultural education as a curriculum category
(1984). Multicultural education as a curriculum category. New Community: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 22-30
A Teacher's Guide to Multicultural Education
In recent years the teaching profession has been attacked for what the Rampton Report called its 'unintentional racism'. At the same time, attempts by teachers to develop curricula that reflect the cultural diversity and confront the racial inequality of contemporary society have had a highly critical reception. This book will help all teachers who are trying honestly and intelligently to respond to the conflicting demands made upon them. Through…
The teacher as researcher: Contradictions and continuities
(1987). The teacher as researcher: Contradictions and continuities. Peabody Journal of Education: Vol. 64, The Potential and Practice of Action Research Part 1, pp. 20-32
Only Connect: Thoughts on stylistic interchange within the research community
What Is Evaluation after the MSC
What is evaluation after the MSC
School Work, Homework and Gender
This paper explores female and male students' attitudes towards school work in terms of application and achievement. The data are drawn from interviews with students, teachers, careers officers and welfare officers in three semi‐rural comprehensive schools in one local education authority (LEA) [1]. (The students were in their last year of compulsory schooling, Year 11, and were aged 16 [2].) The three schools had invited the authors to explore w…
The role of professional judgment in the local inspection of schools: A study of six local education authorities
Over the last five years, professional judgment ‐‐ as it relates to education and schooling ‐‐ has become increasingly politicized and problematic: politicized because of the structures of public accountability that now surround it; problematic because of the unresolved tensions between these structures and the ways in which professionals have traditionally exercised their judgment. This paper offers an analysis of these unresolved tensions as th…
Action Research For Educational Change J ohn E lliott
Dimensions of Discipline: Rethinking Practice in Secondary Schools
Towards A Theory of learning
This paper considers the nature of learning and the role of institutions in general and schools in particular in structuring learning. It outlines and commends a view of learning as a process whereby we discover ourselves as persons and thereby act to create the contexts in which we live and work. Central to this view is the idea of the ‘learning school’
School govenance for the civil society: Redefining the boundary between schools and parents
1996). School govenance for the civil society: Redefining the boundary between schools and parents. Local Government Studies: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 210-228
Professional identity and the restructuring of higher education
Higher education has undergone immense changes over the last 30 years. These changes, involving the fragmentation of the academic workplace together with increased differentials between individuals in respect of status and autonomy, have had a profound effect on the role of university teachers and on their sense of professional identity. Nevertheless, university teachers have important insights to bring to the debate on higher education. This pap…
Confronting ‘failure’: Towards a pedagogy of recognition
This paper is based on an in‐depth study of nine secondary schools situated in contexts of disadvantage across the national regions of the UK. First, we examine the construction of educational ‘failure’ by exploring the impact of disadvantage on the quality of learning and the identity of learners in one of the case‐study schools which (like several others) is situated within a large postwar housing development. We then analyse various kinds of i…
Towards a Learning Profession: Changing codes of occupational practice within the new management of education
Professionals were once considered to be the civic leaders, the deliverers of the good society. However, the old order has cracked under the pressure of social change, leaving a very different relation between professionals and their publics. This paper addresses some of the questions occasioned by these changes: Where does the altered power relation between parents, students and teachers leave the notion of teacher professionalism? What is the r…
Theorising 'Agreement: The Moral Bases of the Emergent Professionalism Within the 'New' Management of Education
(1997). Theorising ‘Agreement’: the moral bases of the emergent professionalism within the ‘new’ management of education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 197-214
Education for Sustainability in Scottish Secondary Schools: Boundary maintenance or professional reorientation
This article reports on a study of education for sustainability in Scottish secondary schools. The study was based at the Institute of Education, University of Stirling, and was sponsored (between November 1997 and March 1998) by the Sustainable Schools Partnership, with funding from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Worldwide Fund for Nature Scotland and (between April 1998 and July 1998) b…
Teachers, Writers, Professionals. Is there anybody out there
This paper draws on questionnaire responses from senior commissioning editors located within nine of the major UK education publishing outlets. It explores changing priorities in educational publishing with reference to authorship, readership and the changing policy context within which publishing 'lists' are conceived, developed and marketed. The shift of orientation within educational publishing from a 'general' to a 'professionalised' public i…
University-based initial teacher education: Institutional re-positioning and professional renewal
The emphasis on 'partnership' in initial teacher education is a matter not just of organisational structure but of professional practices and purposes. If universities are to remain key players in initial teacher education, they must support the occupational group that represents the sector's interests and values: university-based initial teacher educators. Currently, however, this occupational group is awkwardly positioned between competing sets…
Towards a New Academic Professionalism: A manifesto of hope
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate debate on developments within higher education. It is concerned primarily with the hopeful working out of a new kind of professional ethic. It explores the extent to which and ways in which academic staff working within the context of higher education might be seen as professionals with a shared set of values and expectations. It argues that the changing conditions of higher education have made it extreme…
Educational renewal as democratic practice: New' community schooling in Scotland
This paper focuses on the New Community Schools (NCS) initiative as currently being developed in Scotland. This major 5-year programme is one of a raft of educational initiatives that the Scottish Executive is supporting across local authorities. Drawing on documentary evidence and interview data, we discuss the potential of this programme for professional renewal across a range of occupational groups involved in NCS: community, health and social…
Educational renewal as democratic practice: New' community schooling in Scotland
This paper focuses on the New Community Schools (NCS) initiative as currently being developed in Scotland. This major 5-year programme is one of a raft of educational initiatives that the Scottish Executive is supporting across local authorities. Drawing on documentary evidence and interview data, we discuss the potential of this programme for professional renewal across a range of occupational groups involved in NCS: community, health and social…
Towards a New Academic Professionalism: A manifesto of hope
The purpose of this paper is to stimulate debate on developments within higher education. It is concerned primarily with the hopeful working out of a new kind of professional ethic. It explores the extent to which and ways in which academic staff working within the context of higher education might be seen as professionals with a shared set of values and expectations. It argues that the changing conditions of higher education have made it extreme…
Not Without Dust and Heat’: The Moral Bases of the ‘New’ Academic Professionalism
This paper challenges the view that academic professionalism resides in the professional ‘autonomy’ of the academic, the ‘self-regulation’ of academics as an occupational group, and the differential ‘status’ of academic workers. This still influential (though residual) notion of academic professionalism, it is argued, leads to institutional stasis. What is required is greater reflexivity by academics in respect of their underlying professional va…
Sociology (42 works) · Political science (33 works) · Law (24 works) · Pedagogy (21 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Social science (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works)