Jones Irwin

Biographic Data

ID7547682
NAMEJones Irwin
GIVEN NAMESJones
FAMILY NAMEIrwin
SIGNATUREIRWIN J
AFFILIATIONSInstitute of Education, St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Exploring well-being and ill-being in education

    Open AccessAshling Bourke, John Irwin et al.ARTICLEIrish Educational Studies2025

    Recent years have seen a significant increase in the explicit naming of well-being in educational policy and practice. However, there is a tendency for such naming to occur in a theoretical vacuum which can lead to an ambiguous and ill-defined application, and runs the risk of the construct being viewed purely as ‘happiness’ and negates the space for individual vulnerabilities and experiences of ill-being that are part of the human condition. In …

  • Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—The New Normal

    Open AccessPetar Jandrić, Areli Flores Martínez et al.ARTICLEPostdigital Science and Education2022

  • Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later

    Open AccessPetar Jandrić, Darwin L Hayes et al.ARTICLEPostdigital Science and Education2021

    In March 2020 I published the 'emergency editorial' in Postdigital Science and Education and invited the community to 'explore all imaginable aspects of this large social experiment that the Covid-19 pandemic has lain down in front of us' (Jandri 2020a: 237). Articles immediately started pouring in; within weeks, the journal's contributions had been recognized by institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Library of Medic…

  • Philosophy of education in a new key

    Petar Jandrić, Jimmy Jaldemark et al.ARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2020Cited by: 5References: 13

    This paper explores relationships between environment and education after the Covid-19 pandemic through the lens of philosophy of education in a new key developed by Michael Peters and the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). The paper is collectively written by 15 authors who responded to the question: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Their answers are classified into four main themes and corresponding sections. The first section,…

  • Radicalising philosophy of education—The case of Jean-Francois Lyotard

    John Irwin, Jones IrwinARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2017Cited by: 1References: 1

    The origins of philosophy of education as a discipline are relatively late, and can be traced in the Anglo-American academic world from the 1960s and a specific emphasis on conceptual problems deriving from the analytical tradition of philosophy. In more recent years, however, there has been a notable ‘Continentalist’ turn in the discipline, leading to a re-evaluation of key texts and philosophers from the French and German traditions and their r…

  • Why Ethics? Why Motherhood? But Yes

    John Irwin, Jones IrwinARTICLEStudies in Gender and Sexuality2012

    This essay contextualizes Baraitser's (2009 Baraitser , L. ( 2009 ). Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption . London , UK : Routledge . [Google Scholar]) Maternal Encounters: The Ethics of Interruption with regard to a persistent neglect of the value of motherhood in Western philosophy. The author argues that Baraitser's approach foregrounds the “maternal encounter” in a way that is distinctive both with regard to mainstream philosophy a…

  • Life and death in Freud and Heidegger

    John Irwin, Jones IrwinARTICLEMortality2008

    Life and death in Freud and Heidegger. By HAVI CAREL, Rodopi, New York, 2006, 217pp., EUR48, US$60, hardback (ISBN 9042016590). Havi Carel ambitiously attempts to provide a “robust view of death” (