Peter R Gardner
Biographic Data
| ID | 9289586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter R Gardner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter R |
| FAMILY NAME | Gardner |
| SIGNATURE | GARDNER P R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2402-7809 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What explains global patterns of climate activism? A macro-level, cross-national analysis of collective environmental action
Activism in response to climate and ecological breakdown is a defining feature of 21st-century societies. Yet, the factors underpinning its global variation remain insufficiently understood. We address this research puzzle through a cross-national analysis of collective environmental action events between 2018 and 2022: a pivotal moment in climate mobilisation. Drawing on an original dataset of 25,626 events across 148 countries, our findings sug…
Power of Inter‐Chapter Distance
This paper examines how distance impacts the network of connections across social movement organisations. Much of the social movements research on scale and spatiality has focused on micro (the immediate vicinity in protest events) and macro levels (local‐global connections), with limited attention paid to the role played by distance in shaping networks across a single country context. To examine this phenomenon, we analyse Extinction Rebellion A…
Emotional responses to state repression predict collective climate action intentions
As climate activism has expanded, governments have increasingly repressed disruptive but non-violent protests. Yet evidence remains mixed regarding whether repression inhibits or galvanizes activism. In this study, we examine how anticipated and experienced repression predict intentions to engage in normative (rule-conforming) and non-normative (rule-violating) collective climate action, over and above past activism and core psychological anteced…
Transboundary Spanning in Social Movements
This paper introduces transboundary spanning as a novel concept for social movement analysis. Using Extinction Rebellion (XR) in the United States as a case study, we examine the relational dynamics of social movement boundary spanning: processes wherein actors and organizations engage across symbolic boundaries. Drawing on a 3‐month ethnography of XR in the Northeastern US, 44 in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with US activists, and 199 interv…
Reconstruction at the meso level
Meso‐level institutions are integral to everyday life but are often overlooked in post‐civil war rebuilding efforts. This study, based on a qualitative dataset of 27 interviews and 11 focus groups conducted in Malakand Division, Pakistan, reveals that many of the institutions that are vital to local stakeholders have been neglected in the region's reconstruction efforts. In addition to considerable loss of life, the conflict between the Taliban a…
Sociology amid Climate Breakdown
We teach sociology on a dangerously heating planet. The first half of the 2020s has witnessed extreme heatwaves, devastating floods, catastrophic droughts, agricultural shocks and rampant wildfires: harbingers of a situation that is due to escalate towards the end of the century. In this article, we argue that for sociological education to meet the existential challenge posed by climate breakdown, we must do more than simply add climate to the cu…
Profile
The emergence of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in 2018 as a global movement led to the establishment of chapters all around the world. Much existing work has focused on cases located in the UK, Western Europe and the Anglosphere. This profile presents a case study of the formation of XR in The Gambia as an example of further diffusion of the movement. We examine how partial democratisation opened up space for contention, which in turn led to the adop…
Glued on for the grandkids
This paper explores the gendered politics of care in global environmental activism. Drawing on interviews with 96 Extinction Rebellion activists worldwide and a close analysis of 10 older women within this dataset, we contend that ‘care’ both replicated and contradicted the patriarchal order. Older women in Extinction Rebellion have often been relied upon to take on much of the caring labour involved in the maintenance of the movement at local an…
Confronting the climate crisis in Africa
Climate change is increasingly impacting the social, economic and political space across the African continent. The compounding character of such impacts reinforces existing inequalities, raising important considerations around climate justice. Growing awareness has seen the emergence of activists working for solutions and promoting alternative futures, working across scales and sectors to address the complexity of the threats. We examine environ…
Symbolic Objects in Contentious Politics
The Meaning of Contention
Contention is everywhere nowadays, permeating the fabric of society and constituting an important element of many different social relationships. It is also a central topic across a wide range of social scientific disciplines. Following the most contentious decade in over a century, scholarship on the topic of “contention” is booming. Nonetheless, we still lack a conceptual approach to “contention” as a general academic term beyond the bounds of …
Spreading rebellion
This article offers an analysis of social movement transnationalisation, using Extinction Rebellion as its case study. In order to investigate the temporal and geographical dynamics of Extinction Rebellion’s transnational diffusion, and the interaction of these dynamics with protest events, we draw on two primary datasets: one describing where and when all 1265 of the movement’s local groups emerged globally, the other containing all major protes…
Quality assessment with diverse studies (QuADS)
Ethnic Dignity and the Ulster-Scots Movement in Northern Ireland
An overview of the features of chatbots in mental health
Ethnicity monopoly
Ulster-Scots is a contemporary case of ethnicity-building, materialising in Northern Ireland at the end of the 20th century. As the ‘Troubles’ began to be reinterpreted as being about cultural identity in the 1980s, avenues were sought through which to find a ‘Protestant-ness’ comparative to the considerably more developed discourse of Irishness. It was at this point that Ulster-Scots emerged. While its initial decades were marked by derision, ho…
Ethnicizing Ulster’s Protestants
The Ulster-Scots ethnolinguistic ‘revival,’ often considered to be the ethnic, cultural or linguistic expression of unionism and loyalism, has recently made inroads into schools across Northern Ireland. With intercommunal educational segregation pervasive in the province, the teaching of such an ‘ethnic identity’ has potential sociological ramifications. Utilizing an in-depth textual analysis of the Ulster-Scots Agency’s educational materials and…
Diaspora, defeatism, and dignity
The notion of an American diaspora has become increasingly salient among the minority of Ulster Protestants who ascribe to the "Ulster-Scots" ethnic identity in Northern Ireland. Especially in light of the well-established conception of an Irish-American diaspora, the effort Ulster's "Protestant community" to construct and delineate a separate, non-Irish genealogical diaspora reveals much about their collective self-conceptions and aspirations. I…
Applying the reasoned action approach to understanding health protection and health risk behaviors
Meta-Analysis of the Reasoned Action Approach (RAA) to Understanding Health Behaviors
Teaching the Pursuit of Assumptions
Journal Article Teaching the Pursuit of Assumptions Get access Peter Gardner, Peter Gardner Correspondence: Peter Gardner, 45 Highfield Avenue, Carlisle CA2 6NH, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephen Johnson Stephen Johnson Stephen Johnson, 89 Lechlade Road, Birmingham B43 5ND, UK. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxfor…
Hand's Academy Challenge
Michael Hand has recently challenged certain religious organisations that run Academies in the United Kingdom to devise and pursue their own faith-based curricula in their schools. In this short article I examine some of the problems Hand's challenge might encounter, including whether religious conceptions of worthwhile activities and of human flourishing can be as devoid of religious beliefs as Hand would seem to wish and whether his challenge c…
Seventy years of south Indian hunter-gatherer research
Using vignettes to explore judgements of patients about safety and quality of care
BACKGROUND There is a growing body of evidence that safe outcomes and quality care are important to patients. For the patient, evaluations of safety and quality are made on the basis of the interpersonal interactions that they have with health professionals as well as the technical aspects of their care. OBJECTIVE In this study, we investigated the extent to which outcome of care (harm or not) and relationship (good or bad) with the care provider…
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Spreading rebellion
This article offers an analysis of social movement transnationalisation, using Extinction Rebellion as its case study. In order to investigate the temporal and geographical dynamics of Extinction Rebellion’s transnational diffusion, and the interaction of these dynamics with protest events, we draw on two primary datasets: one describing where and when all 1265 of the movement’s local groups emerged globally, the other containing all major protes…
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Confronting the climate crisis in Africa
Climate change is increasingly impacting the social, economic and political space across the African continent. The compounding character of such impacts reinforces existing inequalities, raising important considerations around climate justice. Growing awareness has seen the emergence of activists working for solutions and promoting alternative futures, working across scales and sectors to address the complexity of the threats. We examine environ…
Applying the reasoned action approach to understanding health protection and health risk behaviors
Hand on Religious Upbringing
Michael Hand's recent paper, ‘Religious Upbringing Reconsidered', re-opens a debate that was flourishing over a decade ago in this journal and, long before that, in the works of others. In this response I examine Hand's claims that earlier contributions to the debate passed over the central problem and that he can solve that problem. I endeavour to show that several of Hand's arguments, such as those dealing with indoctrination, as well as his cl…
Glued on for the grandkids
This paper explores the gendered politics of care in global environmental activism. Drawing on interviews with 96 Extinction Rebellion activists worldwide and a close analysis of 10 older women within this dataset, we contend that ‘care’ both replicated and contradicted the patriarchal order. Older women in Extinction Rebellion have often been relied upon to take on much of the caring labour involved in the maintenance of the movement at local an…
Religious Upbringing and the Liberal Ideal of Religious Autonomy
Journal Article Religious Upbringing and the Liberal Ideal of Religious Autonomy Get access Peter Gardner Peter Gardner Correspondence: Peter Gardner, Department of Education, University of Wanwick, Westwood, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 22, Issue 1, July 1988, Pages 89–105, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1988.tb00180.x Pu…
Aboriginal Community Incomes and Migration in the NWT
This paper examines the likely impact of induced migration from smaller communities to larger centres in the event of further cuts in federal expenditures in the NWT. With the exception of a few communities located near mineral resource industries, government employment and transfer payments provide the major source of cash income for most aboriginal communities. This income is critical as a source of money to invest in machinery and equipment to…
The Meaning of Contention
Contention is everywhere nowadays, permeating the fabric of society and constituting an important element of many different social relationships. It is also a central topic across a wide range of social scientific disciplines. Following the most contentious decade in over a century, scholarship on the topic of “contention” is booming. Nonetheless, we still lack a conceptual approach to “contention” as a general academic term beyond the bounds of …
Personal Autonomy and Religious Upbringing
The Paradox of Moral Education
Journal Article The Paradox of Moral Education: a reassessment Get access Peter Gardner Peter Gardner Correspondence: Peter Gardner, Department of Education, University of Warwick, Westwood, Coventry CV4 7AL, England. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 19, Issue 1, July 1985, Pages 39–48, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1985.tb00074.x Published: 30 May 2006
Religious Education
Profile
The emergence of Extinction Rebellion (XR) in 2018 as a global movement led to the establishment of chapters all around the world. Much existing work has focused on cases located in the UK, Western Europe and the Anglosphere. This profile presents a case study of the formation of XR in The Gambia as an example of further diffusion of the movement. We examine how partial democratisation opened up space for contention, which in turn led to the adop…
Hand's Academy Challenge
Michael Hand has recently challenged certain religious organisations that run Academies in the United Kingdom to devise and pursue their own faith-based curricula in their schools. In this short article I examine some of the problems Hand's challenge might encounter, including whether religious conceptions of worthwhile activities and of human flourishing can be as devoid of religious beliefs as Hand would seem to wish and whether his challenge c…
Religious Upbringing
In this symposium Michael Hand presents a rejoinder to criticisms of his ‘Religious Upbringing Reconsidered’ (Journal of Philosophy of Education, 36.4) by Jim Mackenzie, Peter Gardner and Charlene Tan. Defending the idea of the logical possibility of non-indoctrinatory religious upbringing, he attempts to show that none of their various objections is successful. Mackenzie, Gardner and Tan each offer a response
Some Achilles' Heels of Thinking Skills
Steven Higgins and Vivienne Baumfield have recently attempted to defend the much discussed idea of general thinking skills against attacks from three quarters: what they regard as a priori objections, which they liken to Zeno's paradox that Achilles will not catch the tortoise; domains theories of knowledge, which oppose the idea of thinking skills being general and transcending domains; and the claim that experts use subject specific knowledge, …
Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking
Victor Quinn advocates teaching critical thinking as a curriculum subject. He has accused Professor John E. McPeck, a vehement critic of such proposals, not only of being wrong but also of being in need of such a critical thinking course himself. In this paper we examine the five supposed critical thinking weaknesses of which McPeck is accused and consider what Quinn's arguments tell us about critical thinking, its skills, its priorities and its …
Should We Teach Children to be Open-Minded? Or, is the Pope Open-Minded about the Existence of God
The recommendation that we encourage children to be open-minded has been gathering strength. Yet given the everyday meaning of ‘being open-minded about something’, we may decide to reject this recommendation because it proscribes teaching and learning. There again, recent philosophical accounts of open-mindedness seem to oppose everyday meaning and lead to the absurd conclusion that the Pope is open-minded about the existence of God. This paper s…
Symposium
SYMPOSIUM: THEORETICAL PROBLEMS OF ART EDUCATION: PROBLEMS IN ART EDUCATION Get access Peter Gardner Peter Gardner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 1966, Pages 37–40, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/6.1.37 Published: 01 January 1966
Religious Education
On Some Paradoxes in Moral Education
Journal Article On Some Paradoxes in Moral Education Get access Peter Gardner Peter Gardner Correspondence: Peter Gardner, Department of Education, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 15, Issue 1, July 1981, Pages 65–76, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1981.tb00569.x Published: 30 May 2006
Paternalism and Consent in Education, or One Day You'll be Grateful
Journal Article Paternalism and Consent in Education, or One Day You'll be Grateful Get access Peter Gardner Peter Gardner Correspondence: Peter Gardner, Department of Education, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 17, Issue 1, July 1983, Pages 57–72, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1983.tb00016.x Published: 30 May…
The Compulsory Curriculum and Beyond
Journal Article The Compulsory Curriculum and Beyond: a consideration of some aspects of the educational philosophy of J. P. White Get access Peter Gardner Peter Gardner Correspondence: Peter Gardner, Department of Education, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, England. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 18, Issue 2, December 1984, Pages 167–185, https://doi.org…
The Paradox of Moral Education
Journal Article The Paradox of Moral Education: a reassessment Get access Peter Gardner Peter Gardner Correspondence: Peter Gardner, Department of Education, University of Warwick, Westwood, Coventry CV4 7AL, England. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 19, Issue 1, July 1985, Pages 39–48, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1985.tb00074.x Published: 30 May 2006
The Compulsory Curriculum and Beyond
Journal Article The Compulsory Curriculum and Beyond: a rejoinder to John White Get access Peter Gardner Peter Gardner Correspondence: Peter Gardner, Department of Education, University of Warwick, Westwood, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 21, Issue 2, December 1987, Pages 271–281, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1987.tb00167.…
Religious Upbringing and the Liberal Ideal of Religious Autonomy
Journal Article Religious Upbringing and the Liberal Ideal of Religious Autonomy Get access Peter Gardner Peter Gardner Correspondence: Peter Gardner, Department of Education, University of Wanwick, Westwood, Coventry CV4 7AL, United Kingdom. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 22, Issue 1, July 1988, Pages 89–105, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1988.tb00180.x Pu…
Personal Autonomy and Religious Upbringing
Private Judgement', Mill and Tocqueville
Should We Teach Children to be Open-Minded? Or, is the Pope Open-Minded about the Existence of God
The recommendation that we encourage children to be open-minded has been gathering strength. Yet given the everyday meaning of ‘being open-minded about something’, we may decide to reject this recommendation because it proscribes teaching and learning. There again, recent philosophical accounts of open-mindedness seem to oppose everyday meaning and lead to the absurd conclusion that the Pope is open-minded about the existence of God. This paper s…
Aboriginal Community Incomes and Migration in the NWT
This paper examines the likely impact of induced migration from smaller communities to larger centres in the event of further cuts in federal expenditures in the NWT. With the exception of a few communities located near mineral resource industries, government employment and transfer payments provide the major source of cash income for most aboriginal communities. This income is critical as a source of money to invest in machinery and equipment to…
Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking
Victor Quinn advocates teaching critical thinking as a curriculum subject. He has accused Professor John E. McPeck, a vehement critic of such proposals, not only of being wrong but also of being in need of such a critical thinking course himself. In this paper we examine the five supposed critical thinking weaknesses of which McPeck is accused and consider what Quinn's arguments tell us about critical thinking, its skills, its priorities and its …
Four Anxieties and a Reassurance
In suppport of the idea that education should encourage open-mindedness, Hare and McLaughlin have argued that being open-minded about an issue, in a philosophically well-supported sense of ‘open-mindedness’, need not prevent one from holding a firm belief on that issue. In this paper I examine the lack of cohesion in this sense of ‘open-mindedness’, explain why I continue to be anxious about the tensions between open-mindedness and holding firm b…
Some Achilles' Heels of Thinking Skills
Steven Higgins and Vivienne Baumfield have recently attempted to defend the much discussed idea of general thinking skills against attacks from three quarters: what they regard as a priori objections, which they liken to Zeno's paradox that Achilles will not catch the tortoise; domains theories of knowledge, which oppose the idea of thinking skills being general and transcending domains; and the claim that experts use subject specific knowledge, …
Still Worried
Religious Upbringing
In this symposium Michael Hand presents a rejoinder to criticisms of his ‘Religious Upbringing Reconsidered’ (Journal of Philosophy of Education, 36.4) by Jim Mackenzie, Peter Gardner and Charlene Tan. Defending the idea of the logical possibility of non-indoctrinatory religious upbringing, he attempts to show that none of their various objections is successful. Mackenzie, Gardner and Tan each offer a response
Hand on Religious Upbringing
Michael Hand's recent paper, ‘Religious Upbringing Reconsidered', re-opens a debate that was flourishing over a decade ago in this journal and, long before that, in the works of others. In this response I examine Hand's claims that earlier contributions to the debate passed over the central problem and that he can solve that problem. I endeavour to show that several of Hand's arguments, such as those dealing with indoctrination, as well as his cl…
Peer assisted learning and blogging
The use of peer assisted learning in clinical education is explored in this case study. Groups of undergraduate physiotherapy students were structured into communities of practice during the second half of their clinical fieldwork program. They collaborated online in an asynchronous manner, using information communications technology (blogs) and focussed their discussion on professional practice and evidence based practice issues. Each blog group…
Using blogging to promote clinical reasoning and metacognition in undergraduate physiotherapy fieldwork programs
This qualitative study investigated the impact of using blogs on the clinical reasoning and meta-cognitive skills of undergraduate physiotherapy students in a fieldwork education program. A blog is a web based document that enables individuals to enter comments and read each others' comments in a dynamic and interactive manner. In this study, final year physiotherapy students were randomly allocated to group blogs to share their reflections on th…
In pursuit of perspective
Using vignettes to explore judgements of patients about safety and quality of care
BACKGROUND There is a growing body of evidence that safe outcomes and quality care are important to patients. For the patient, evaluations of safety and quality are made on the basis of the interpersonal interactions that they have with health professionals as well as the technical aspects of their care. OBJECTIVE In this study, we investigated the extent to which outcome of care (harm or not) and relationship (good or bad) with the care provider…
Exceptional preservation of a prehistoric human brain from Heslington, Yorkshire, UK
Seventy years of south Indian hunter-gatherer research
Hand's Academy Challenge
Michael Hand has recently challenged certain religious organisations that run Academies in the United Kingdom to devise and pursue their own faith-based curricula in their schools. In this short article I examine some of the problems Hand's challenge might encounter, including whether religious conceptions of worthwhile activities and of human flourishing can be as devoid of religious beliefs as Hand would seem to wish and whether his challenge c…
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