PhD Student Profile
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James MacAllister
The
Moray House School of Education,
The University of Edinburgh,
Simon
Laurie House (Rm 1.04),
Holyrood Road,
Edinburgh EH8 8AQ
Scotland, UK
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Telephone: +44 (0) 131
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Project Title: What should Discipline in Schools be for?
Supervisors:
Professor
David Carr and Dr
Gale Macleod
Research
topic:
This
study will attempt to answer the question of what
discipline in schools should be for, from a theoretical
and primarily philosophical perspective. It will
be argued that the vast majority of research has
attempted to understand discipline in schools through
empirical enquiry. Whilst recognising that empirical
enquiry has and can shed much light on the issue
of discipline in schools generally it will be suggested
that only moral and conceptual enquiry can meaningfully
answer the question of what discipline should be
for. It will be argued that discipline should be
morally educative and that moral education might
be usefully defined as those instances in school
where pupils can learn how to exercise their free
choices wisely in the long term.
Teaching experience:
I
have taught on the Education 2 course of the B
Ed programme as both a tutor in 2007/2008 and tutor
and lecturer in 2008/2009. I will also run the
course on Personal and Social Education on the
MSc Education from January 2009.
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