Kevin Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3942055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5209-1395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Keep Calm and Carry On
Perseverance is a highly valued durable skill—a set of constructs also referred to as socioemotional skills, noncognitive constructs, transferrable skills, and 21st century skills, among other terms—as it describes one’s ability to manage challenges and obstacles in academic, workplace, and other life areas. As part of a new critical skills taxonomy designed to include academic and employability skills beyond traditional academic content knowledg…
A high-frequency analysis of weather and crime in Jamaica
Although the crime-weather relationship has been studied extensively, the use of high-frequency hourly crime data with a measure of heat that takes account of the combined effect of temperature and relative humidity is as of yet unexplored. Using over 3.2 million hourly observations from 2000 to 2020 across 19 geographical divisions in Jamaica, we establish the effect of heat on crime. The results show that crime increases up to six hours after h…
Literature as Theology
Nationhood and Europe
A source of funding for illicit activities or a solution to crime? Evidence from remittance inflows to Jamaica
Crime and remittance inflows are high in Jamaica, and there is a general anecdote that foreign‐based masterminds use remittances to fund crime. Yet, remittances represent a significant source of foreign income to alleviate financial constraints, which may pose a dilemma to policymakers. We find that remittances significantly reduce rape and carnal abuse and property crimes such as larceny and break‐ins but have no significant effect on armed crim…
Imagining alternative futures with augmentative and alternative communication
This manifesto seeks to challenge dominant narratives about the future of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). Current predictions are mainly driven by technological developments-technologies usually being developed for different markets-and are often based on ableist assumptions. In online conversations and a discussion panel at the 2023 International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication conference, we explored alt…
The rationale for the teaching of literature
Paul Hirst’s reconceptualization of his epistemology provides a basis for this exploration of the various aspects of the rationale for teaching literature. The article reflects the close analysis of knowledge and the curriculum in his early work and develops insights in his later work. This leads to the identification of five strands that form the rationale for the role of literature within the curriculum. The first strand refers to the knowledge…
Cognitive gain and the close reading of literature
In their Introduction, the editors explain that the series aims to show that literature 'can be a resource for educational thought' that 'can nurture and inspire educational change' and they also invoke the authority of Dr Johnson in support of the 'formidable didactic potential' of literature (Phelan, 2021, paras. 1, 2). Having endeavoured to draw on literary sources in understanding the activities of teaching and learning, I was intrigued to co…
JUE Insight
Disambiguating Between Privacy and Security in the Context of Health Care
Health care providers are increasingly providing technologies for patient care; however, patients are still loath to use such technologies consistently. This research examines the impediments to patients' use of e-health portals. Our analysis of 836 data records showed that while privacy and security concerns have a negative impact on attitudes toward e-health portals, increasing the awareness of privacy and security controls alleviates such conc…
Does national income mediate the relationship between trade and government size
Voices of the establishment or of cultural subversion? The Western canon in the curriculum
The argument of this paper is that many texts of the Western literary canon rather than being vehicles of establishment values are critical of these values. Teaching these texts allows educators to challenge the interests of those who hold power in society as well as conventional sexual morality and gender stereotypes. Many important works of literature, in addition to denouncing hypocrisy, self-righteousness and all forms of exploitation, underm…
Hidden Husbandry
Beckery Chapel, near Glastonbury, is the site which has the earliest scientific dating evidence for monastic life in the UK, and later in the medieval period became a Chapel that played a significant role as a destination for pilgrims, as part of the Glastonbury Abbey estate. The site was previously excavated in the 1880s and the 1960s, and in 2016 the South West Heritage Trust excavated a building, that proved to be an outbuilding used when the …
Questioning allegiance
Book review of, Questioning allegiance: Resituating Civic Education by Liz Jackson. 2019. Routledge
Philosophy of education in a new key
This article is a collective writing experiment undertaken by philosophers of education affiliated with the PESGB (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain). When asked to reflect on questions concerning the Philosophy of Education in a New Key in May 2020, it was unsurprising that the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on society and on education were foremost in our minds. We wanted to consider important philosophical and educational q…
How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?’ Personal Concern and Sexual Desire in the Educational Relationship
Drawing on both philosophical and imaginative sources, this article explores the profile of concern and caring in the teacher–learner relationship. Following a defence of the role of narrative in educational theory, the nature of the teacher–learner relationship and the role of concern in the relationship are addressed. The main part of the essay draws on the autobiographical fiction The Pupil: A Memory of Love by Irish author Monk Gibbon to demo…
Work, Play and Language Learning
This paper applies Oakeshott’s distinction between work and play to his philosophy of language education. The first part explores his critique of the vocational rationale for learning foreign languages and his affirmation of the intrinsic value or playful character of the activity. The second part of the article endeavours to give practical content to Oakeshott’s vision of studying language for the pleasure of the activity by drawing on sources t…
Soundings in the Sources of His Power
The focus of the article is on the different strands that shaped Seamus Heaney’s sensibility. The first section examines the role played by the home and local community and the second explores the contribution of school and university. One of the most significant sources of his upbringing was the experience of living in a divided society. His educational journey involved negotiating the complex elements of his cultural identity. The different lan…
A New History of War Reporting
This book takes a fresh look at the history of war reporting to understand how new technology, new ways of waging war and new media conditions are changing the role and work of today’s war correspondent. Focussing on the mechanics of war reporting and the logistical and institutional pressures on correspondents, the book further examines the role of war propaganda, accreditation and news management in shaping the evolution of the specialism. Prev…
Reporting War and Conflict
Reporting War and Conflict brings together history, theory and practice to explore the issues and obstacles involved in the reporting of contemporary war and conflict. The book examines the radical changes taking place in the working practices and day-to-day routines of war journalists, arguing that managing risk has become central to modern war correspondence. How individual reporters and news organisations organise their coverage of war and con…
Education and the hegemony of the rich
(E)schatological narratives of endings (and beginnings), ... are endemic to Western culture', and ‘so we are all, and will forever be, children of postmodernism’. So what then is its legacy? One asp
The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier
Digital Out of Home Entertainment is rather an arcane description for one of the fastest growing technology-sectors. These forms of interactive technology, often established on a 'pay per use' basis are transforming the customer experience in shops, cinemas, museums; almost any environment where consumers are congregating. Kevin Williams and Michael Mascioni's The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier provides a 'state of play' exploration…
From contradictions to complementarities
Academic development is a recent project in the university, intended to enable the university to respond to the needs of a more diverse student body. In South Africa, such work arose during late apartheid, and has now moved to a more central institutional position advocating responsiveness in the light of the educational disparities that are the legacy of apartheid. The present study uses a social realist perspective to analyse the 25-year evolut…
Lessons from a master
There remains much to be learned from searching exploration of the great authors who have meditated on education. Montaigne is one such thinker and this essay endeavors to draw together the strands of his pedagogy and to demonstrate how they gain purchase in the business of teaching and learning. The article also proposes to supplement his vision with practical examples from fiction and autobiography. Perhaps the most striking theme is the need t…
Presence and Absence
This article arises out of a broader study into the contextual influences on the professional development of academics as teachers in higher education in South Africa.Using Fairclough's critical discourse analysis we examine the website of a 'researchled' South African university.We examine the choices made in the use of website space and the presence and absence of texts which refer to teaching or the development of teaching.We compare these cho…
The Circuit of Mass Communication
Introduction - Jenny Kitzinger and David Miller The AIDS Public Education Campaign, 1986-90 - David Miller and Kevin Williams News Variations - Peter Beharrell AIDS and Television News - David Miller and Peter Beharrell AIDS on Television - David Miller Form, Fact and Fiction Sourcing AIDS News - David Miller and Kevin Williams Producing AIDS News - Kevin Williams and David Miller Media Impact on Public Beliefs about AIDS - Jenny Kitzinger Resist…
Read All About It
This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions. Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20th century, the newspape…
JUE Insight
Rethinking ‘Learning’ in Higher Education
A number of authors from different theoretical perspectives have called for new interdisciplinary ways of considering learning within the higher education context. Peter Jarvis's lifelong learning perspective offers a viable alternative, but lacks a strong theory of the person as self, agent and actor. In response I propose that Margaret Archer's realist social theory has a particular utility for bridging ‘common dualisms’ as part of an interdisc…
The Effects of Homophily, Identification, and Violent Video Games on Players
After an experiment with 148 male participants, results indicated that skinning a video game character to physically resemble the player led to greater identification and psychological involvement with the game's character but did little to impact the feeling of presence. Exposure to violent content also led to greater physical hostility than exposure to nonviolent content. An interaction effect revealed playing a violent game with a character ph…
The Effects of Frustration, Violence, and Trait Hostility After Playing a Video Game
An experiment was conducted with 150 male college undergraduates playing different video games to investigate the impact of violent content, frustration with gameplay, and the interaction of those factors with aggressive personality (trait hostility). Results indicate that both violent content and frustration individually leads to greater scores on a state hostility scale, and the interaction of violent content and frustration leads to the highes…
A New History of War Reporting
This book takes a fresh look at the history of war reporting to understand how new technology, new ways of waging war and new media conditions are changing the role and work of today’s war correspondent. Focussing on the mechanics of war reporting and the logistical and institutional pressures on correspondents, the book further examines the role of war propaganda, accreditation and news management in shaping the evolution of the specialism. Prev…
Lessons from a master
There remains much to be learned from searching exploration of the great authors who have meditated on education. Montaigne is one such thinker and this essay endeavors to draw together the strands of his pedagogy and to demonstrate how they gain purchase in the business of teaching and learning. The article also proposes to supplement his vision with practical examples from fiction and autobiography. Perhaps the most striking theme is the need t…
Philosophy of education in a new key
This article is a collective writing experiment undertaken by philosophers of education affiliated with the PESGB (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain). When asked to reflect on questions concerning the Philosophy of Education in a New Key in May 2020, it was unsurprising that the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on society and on education were foremost in our minds. We wanted to consider important philosophical and educational q…
Vision and Elusiveness in Philosophy of Education
Despite his elusiveness on important issues, there is much in Michael Oakeshott's educational vision that Richard Peters quite rightly wishes to endorse. The main aim of this essay is, however, to consider Peters' justifiable critique of three features of Oakeshott's work. These are (1) the rigidity of his distinction between vocational and university education, (2) the lack of clarity and accuracy in his philosophy of teaching and learning, espe…
Claiming the National
While the outcome of the referendum for the Scottish parliament represented the 'settled will' of the Scottish people, the legitimacy of the National Assembly of Wales has been challenged by the outcome of the 1997 referendum. The people of Wales voted 'yes' to a limited devolution of power by the narrowest of margins. In a night of political drama almost unparalleled in recent British political history, the outcome of the referendum went to the …
Hidden Husbandry
Beckery Chapel, near Glastonbury, is the site which has the earliest scientific dating evidence for monastic life in the UK, and later in the medieval period became a Chapel that played a significant role as a destination for pilgrims, as part of the Glastonbury Abbey estate. The site was previously excavated in the 1880s and the 1960s, and in 2016 the South West Heritage Trust excavated a building, that proved to be an outbuilding used when the …
War Correspondents as Sources for History
Drawing on a study of the journalism, literature and autobiographies of war correspondents, this article examines some of the problems of historical research in the field of journalism studies. These include the difficulties of identifying the journalist in history; the methodological obstacles that confront the researcher in analysing historical journalistic texts and the challenge of distinguishing and understanding the pressures under which di…
Flattened Visions From Timeless Machines1
‘History has never been hotter. From the Vikings to the Great Fire of London, television can't get enough of it’ screamed a Guardian headline in 2001. At the beginning of the new millennium history
Religious Worldviews and the Common School
This article explores, in the French context, an aspect of what Terence McLaughlin (1991) has described in an unpublished paper as the ‘dilemma of substantiality’ faced by any school system endeavouring to promote neutrality. In France, in order that the public or common school be genuinely open to all students, not only is the wearing of conspicuous religious symbols forbidden but so too is any direct teaching of religion. The cultural consequen…
Doctors as Good Samaritans
This paper reports the results of the first survey of British doctors' attitudes towards the provision of emergency treatment outside the usual confines of a surgery or hospital. The experience and perceptions of NHS doctors practising in Sheffield concerning Good Samaritan behaviour are discussed against the background of the rather uncertain common law of medical rescue. The implications of the survey's findings for the direction of legal polic…
Education and Human Diversity
This article reviews the arguments in the separate schools debate in an attempt to present a view of the matter which would be acceptable in a liberal democracy. Although the case for common or inclusive schools is treated sympathetically, the burden of the argument is that public sponsorship of separate schools can be defended once certain conditions are met
Vocationalism and Liberal Education
Vocationalism is distinguished from vocational education and distinctions are drawn between the various senses in which vocationalism or the pursuit of vocational 'relevance' can be understood. The burden of the argument of the essay is that vocationalism, understood as teaching skills in virtue of their putative vocational usefulness or relevance, is misguided both on prudential and educational grounds. A basis for some reconciliation between li…
In Defence of Compulsory Education
Journal Article In Defence of Compulsory Education Get access Kevin Williams Kevin Williams Correspondence: Kevin Williams, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 3, Ireland. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 24, Issue 2, December 1990, Pages 285–294, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1990.tb00240.x Published: 30 May 2006
The gift of an interval
Voices of the establishment or of cultural subversion? The Western canon in the curriculum
The argument of this paper is that many texts of the Western literary canon rather than being vehicles of establishment values are critical of these values. Teaching these texts allows educators to challenge the interests of those who hold power in society as well as conventional sexual morality and gender stereotypes. Many important works of literature, in addition to denouncing hypocrisy, self-righteousness and all forms of exploitation, underm…
How Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance?’ Personal Concern and Sexual Desire in the Educational Relationship
Drawing on both philosophical and imaginative sources, this article explores the profile of concern and caring in the teacher–learner relationship. Following a defence of the role of narrative in educational theory, the nature of the teacher–learner relationship and the role of concern in the relationship are addressed. The main part of the essay draws on the autobiographical fiction The Pupil: A Memory of Love by Irish author Monk Gibbon to demo…
Work, Play and Language Learning
This paper applies Oakeshott’s distinction between work and play to his philosophy of language education. The first part explores his critique of the vocational rationale for learning foreign languages and his affirmation of the intrinsic value or playful character of the activity. The second part of the article endeavours to give practical content to Oakeshott’s vision of studying language for the pleasure of the activity by drawing on sources t…
From contradictions to complementarities
Academic development is a recent project in the university, intended to enable the university to respond to the needs of a more diverse student body. In South Africa, such work arose during late apartheid, and has now moved to a more central institutional position advocating responsiveness in the light of the educational disparities that are the legacy of apartheid. The present study uses a social realist perspective to analyse the 25-year evolut…
Manufacturing consensus in a diverse field of scholarly opinions
We appreciate the efforts of Bushman and Cruz to provide new data describing parents’ and professionals’ opinions regarding effects of media violence. Unfortunately, we feel it is necessary to call attention to apparent errors and inaccuracies in the way those data are interpreted and represented in their article. The article overstates the extent to which there is agreement that media violence has meaningful negative societal effects and misrepr…
Job Security and Unfair Dismissal
Demonic possession and mental disorder in medieval and early modern Europe
Synopsis Western European belief in demonic possession as a cause of mental disorder has been traced through the medieval and early modern periods. Generally it appears that the range of disorders attributed to demonic possession has gradually narrowed. In any period, however, there seem to have been marked individual and cultural differences in outlook; some of these differences are still evident today in the survival of belief in demonic posses…
The Dilemma of Michael Oakeshott
The gift of an interval
In Defence of Compulsory Education
Journal Article In Defence of Compulsory Education Get access Kevin Williams Kevin Williams Correspondence: Kevin Williams, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Clonliffe Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 3, Ireland. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 24, Issue 2, December 1990, Pages 285–294, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1990.tb00240.x Published: 30 May 2006
Modern Languages in the School Curriculum
This article is based on an analysis of two types of argument, called utilitarian and educational respectively, which are commonly used to justify the teaching of modern/foreign languages in schools. Serious flaws are identified in the utilitarian arguments often employed to defend the teaching of modern languages and different educational arguments which might be offered as justification for their inclusion in the school curriculum are distingui…
Defences for Drunken Drivers
Knowledge and Nation
Vocationalism and Liberal Education
Vocationalism is distinguished from vocational education and distinctions are drawn between the various senses in which vocationalism or the pursuit of vocational 'relevance' can be understood. The burden of the argument of the essay is that vocationalism, understood as teaching skills in virtue of their putative vocational usefulness or relevance, is misguided both on prudential and educational grounds. A basis for some reconciliation between li…
The Order of Knowledge
Are We Too Defensive about the Place of the Arts in Education
National Sentiment in Civic Education
Education for European citizenship
Only Flattery is Safe’
Sourcing Aids News
The Labour We Delight In
Journal Article The Labour We Delight In Get access K Williams K Williams Mater Dei Institute, Clonliffe Rd., Dublin 3, Ireland Correspondence: K. Williams Mater Dei Institute, Clonliffe Rd., Dublin 3, [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 32, Issue 2, July 1998, Pages 293–303, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9752.00094 Published: 16 December 2002
Education and Human Diversity
This article reviews the arguments in the separate schools debate in an attempt to present a view of the matter which would be acceptable in a liberal democracy. Although the case for common or inclusive schools is treated sympathetically, the burden of the argument is that public sponsorship of separate schools can be defended once certain conditions are met
The Circuit of Mass Communication
Introduction - Jenny Kitzinger and David Miller The AIDS Public Education Campaign, 1986-90 - David Miller and Kevin Williams News Variations - Peter Beharrell AIDS and Television News - David Miller and Peter Beharrell AIDS on Television - David Miller Form, Fact and Fiction Sourcing AIDS News - David Miller and Kevin Williams Producing AIDS News - Kevin Williams and David Miller Media Impact on Public Beliefs about AIDS - Jenny Kitzinger Resist…
Faith and the Nation
Through an examination of selected documents, this article explores the role which the Irish state attributed to education in promoting the Christian, specifically Catholic, identity of its young citizens. The essay also examines the evidence of a desire to distance the state from a direct role in reinforcing the religious dimensions of cultural identity and of an endeavour to reconcile respect for the nation's Christian heritage with respect for…
Claiming the National
While the outcome of the referendum for the Scottish parliament represented the 'settled will' of the Scottish people, the legitimacy of the National Assembly of Wales has been challenged by the outcome of the 1997 referendum. The people of Wales voted 'yes' to a limited devolution of power by the narrowest of margins. In a night of political drama almost unparalleled in recent British political history, the outcome of the referendum went to the …
Books Reviewed
Defaming Politicians
Tales of Transformation
Booknotes
In the sonnet Epic by Patrick Kavanagh, the poet wonders if it is justifiable to write about a quarrel in rural Ireland instead of about the Second World War. His reflections lead him first to lose confidence in the value of local themes: ‘I inclined to lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin’. But then his attitude changes as: ...Homer’s ghost came whispering to my mind He said: I made the Illiad from such A local row. Gods make their own importan…
Doctors as Good Samaritans
This paper reports the results of the first survey of British doctors' attitudes towards the provision of emergency treatment outside the usual confines of a surgery or hospital. The experience and perceptions of NHS doctors practising in Sheffield concerning Good Samaritan behaviour are discussed against the background of the rather uncertain common law of medical rescue. The implications of the survey's findings for the direction of legal polic…
Sociology (45 works) · Political science (36 works) · Law (29 works) · Law (23 works) · Philosophy (23 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Epistemology (19 works) · Philosophy (19 works) · Pedagogy (18 works) · Computer Science (16 works)