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  1. Learning to Rest: A Pieperian Approach to Leisure in Education.Katherine K. Jo - 2019 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 53 (2):374-393.
    In response to the intensifying vocationalisation and instrumentalisation of education, scholars have invoked the ideal of leisure and its educational embodiment in the tradition of liberal learning. Drawing on the work of Josef Pieper, this article seeks to bring to the fore an overlooked yet fundamental aspect of leisure, that of existential rest, a state of being and a mode of engagement with the world in which the basic outlook is one of affirmation of the goodness of the world, which (...)
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  • Job prospects, useful knowledge, and the ‘rip-off’ University: returning to John Henry Newman in our post-pandemic moment.Áine Mahon & Judith Harford - 2024 - Ethics and Education 19 (1):93-108.
    This paper re-examines the tension between professional and liberal education by revisiting The Idea of the University (1852), the seminal mid-nineteenth century treatise of John Henry Newman. In returning to Newman’s classic text, we are interested in the significance of his lectures for a contemporary Higher Education increasingly under pressure to be ‘useful:’ on this understanding, ‘useful’ denotes an arguably limited and utilitarian sense where the university guarantees its students a well-paying job on graduation. In pressing on this distinction between (...)
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  • Monastic Asceticism as Formation for a Distracted, "Disciplinary" Age.Brett Bertucio - 2018 - Philosophy of Education 74:446-460.
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