Dr John Tillson BA (Dunelm) PGCE MA Phd

Dr John Tillson BA (Dunelm) PGCE MA PhD

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Dr John Tillson BA (Dunelm) PGCE MA PhD

Teaching Fellow in Philosophy

Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick

September2016-

Academic responsibility within department for admissions, outreach, and widening participation
Project Manager on a Warwick philosophy students in local schools program
Tutor: PH 133 Introduction to Philosophy
Seminar Leader: PH 122 Doing Philosophy

Teaching Fellow in Philosophy and Philosophy of Education

Education Department, St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University

September2015- June 2016

Lecturing on Philosophy of Education, and Existentialism modules:HD306: The Claims of Children and Parents;

HD205: Existentialism; ED 344: The Common School and its Rivals: Educating Together And Apart; ED442: Children, Wellbeing

and Society

Tutoring and observing Pre-Service Teachers
Supervising BEDresearch projects in psychology and social psychology

Part-Time Lecturer of Philosophy of Education

School of Education Studies, Dublin City University

February – May 2015

Co-lead on MEd and BEd Philosophy of Education modules

Postgraduate Tutor

School of Education, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University

November 5th 2012 – May 31st 2013; October 1st 2013 – May; 31st 2014; November 1st 2014 – May 31st 2015

Postgraduate writing skills support tutor
Facilitating fourth and second year, undergraduate Religious Education BEd tutorials and seminars
Acquisition for and maintenance of teacher training resource collection in library
Occasional cover lectures

Philosophy of Education Lecturer

London School of Philosophy, Conway Hall, London

October – November 2013

Devising and delivering a five week course on the philosophy of education

PHD Religious Education, October 2012 – June (submission) September (defended) 2015

Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University

Title: Children, Religion and the Ethics of Influence
Supervisors: Gareth Byrne and Ian Leask
Examiners: Patricia Kieran (External) and Jones Irwin (Internal)
€51,000 scholarship awarded by the Irish Centre for Religious Education (ICRE)
Pass: Minor Revisions

MA Philosophy of Education, 2009 – 2010

Institute of Education, University College London

Fees paid by the Conway Hall Ethical Society
Dissertation: Ethics on a Post Religious Education Curriculum (B) (Supervisor: Michael Hand)
Taught Courses: Understanding Education Research (A); Theory and Policy (A); Values, Aims and Society (A); Mind, Knowledge
and Understanding (A)

PGCE Religious Education (RE) and A-level Philosophy, 2008 – 2009

Institute of Education, University College London

M level Module: Teaching, Learning and Assessment in RE (A)

BA 2:1 Honours Philosophy, 2004 – 2007

University of Durham, Collingwood College

Double module dissertation on Religious Epistemology (68) (Supervisor: Andy Hamilton)

Trinity Catholic High School, 1997-2004

A-Levels: Art and Design, A; Film Studies, A;Religious Studies, A
Advanced Extension Award: Religious Studies, Merit
AS-level: History, B
GCSEs: Drama, B; English Language, A; English Literature, B; French, D; Graphics, B; Mathematics, B; Religious Education, A; Science, A; History, A

Journal Articles at ‘Conditional Acceptance’ Stage

‘The Problem of Rational Moral Enlistment’. Theory and Research in Education

Journal Articles Under Review

‘Is all Influence Immoral?’Ethics and Education
‘Religious Studies, Truth and Criteria of Correctness’. Journal of Philosophy of Education

Journal Articles in Press or Published

‘When to Teach for Belief: A Tempered Defence of the Epistemic Criterion’. Educational Theory (forthcoming)
‘The Possibility of Horizontal Tolerance: A Reply to van Waarden’. Democracy and Education (forthcoming)
‘Towards a Theory of Propositional Curriculum Content’. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 48, No. 1 (2014):137–148.
‘Elmer Thiessen and the Ethics of Evangelism’. Journal of Education and Christian Belief, 17, No. 2 (2013): 243-258
‘Is Knowledge What It Claims to Be? Bernard Williams and the Absolute Conception’. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 45, No. 8 (2013): 860 – 873
‘In Favour of Ethics Education, Against Religious Education’. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 45, No. 4 (2011):675–68

Book Contributions

Commissioned by professor Paul Smeyers: ‘Religious Education’ for the Springer (Dordrecht) International Handbook of Philosophy of Education (forthcoming).

Year Book Articles

‘Against a Disguised Defense of Religious Initiation,’ in Philosophy of Education Society Yearbook. Urbana: IL, Philosophy of Education Society (forthcoming)
‘Religious Education and the Floodgates of Impartiality’, in Robert Kunzman (ed.) Philosophy of Education Society Yearbook. Urbana: IL, Philosophy of Education Society (2011): 118 – 123

Editing Roles, and Editorial Pieces

Guest-editor (With Dave Aldridge) for symposium of Educational Theory: Cheating Education: the coherence and desirability of technological human enhancement in educational contexts. Contributors include Richard Bailey (Berlin), Adam Carter (Glasgow), Shaun Gallagher (Memphis), Michael Luntley (Warwick), Katherine Puddifoot (Birmingham) and Sophie Stammers (Birmingham).

Guest-editor (with Bianca Thoilliez and Marina Schwimmer) for a philosophy of education special edition of Bajo Palabra, Journal of Philosophy, II Época, 6 (2011)
‘Building Bridges within the Field of Philosophy of Education’ editorial (with Bianca Thoilliez and Marina Schwimmer), in Bajo Palabra, Journal of Philosophy, II Época, 6 (2011): 13 – 23

Reviews

‘A Critical Commentary of Richard Bailey’s Philosophy of Education: An Introduction’, in Bajo Palabra, Journal of Philosophy, II Época, 6 (2011): 185 – 190
‘A Critical Commentary of Stephen Law’s The War for Children’s Mind’s’, in Bajo Palabra, Journal of Philosophy, II Época, 5 (2010): 551-556

Educational Journalism

‘Opening Minds’, The Times Educational Supplement, Tespro, Friday 4 November 2011, No. 8: 10
‘Keep the faith’, The Times Educational Supplement, Tespro, Friday 18 November 2011, No. 10: 11
‘What do children need to know?’, blog for Theos Think Tank website, Friday 10 December 2011

Other Publications

'Modify Your Body!' Philosophy Now, Issue 91, July/August, 2012: 53 – 54

‘From undergraduate to postgraduate: the transition’ Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) Newsletter December 2012

Awards

Grant (£1000) towards presenting a response to a paper by Brett Bertucio at the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, 5/24/2016 from PESGB
£4 Special price scholarship for the PESGB Annual Meeting at New College, Oxford University, 1/3/2015
Grant (£870) towards participating in conference book symposium on Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy’s The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Educationat the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Annual Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, 15/3/2015 from PESGB

Grant (£750) towards presenting ‘How to Derive the Raison D'être of Schooling from one’s Ethics of Influence’ at the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia’s (PESA) Annual meeting, at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, 7/12/2013from PESGB
Grant ($400 AUD) towards presenting ‘How to Derive the Raison D'être of Schooling from one’s Ethics of Influence’ at PESA’s Annual meeting, at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, 7/12/2013 from PESA
Grant (£280) towards presenting at the ‘Religion, Education and Critical Realism’ conference, at Oxford Brookes University, 7-8/9/2012from PESGB
PHD Scholarship (€51,000), awarded by ICRE (2012)
Doctoral Award Scheme (£12,000), awarded by PESGB (2012), declined in favour of the ICRE Scholarship
Grant (£150) towards presenting at the Humanities and social science (University of London) and Laboratoryof Education and Society (KU Leuven) colloquium, KU Leuven 22/5/2012 from the Institute of Education (IOE)
Grant (£180) towards presenting at the Ideals and Reality in Social Ethics conference, at the University of Wales, Newport, 11-13/4/2012 from PESGB
Grant (£750) towards presenting at the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, 25/3/2011 from PESGB
Grant (£500) towards presenting at the Graduate Student Conference of Philosophy and Education (GSCOPE), at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, 1/10/2010 from PESGB
Grant (£520) towards presenting at the British Education Research Association (BERA) Early Career Researchers Conference, at Warwick University, 1/9/2010 from PESGB
MA course fee (£3,624), awarded by Conway Hall Ethical Society

Conference Papers

‘Is It Wrong To Simulate Doing Wrong?’, at the Video Games and Virtual Ethics, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of LondonJuly 21-22/7/2017
‘Against a Disguised Defense of Religious Initiation,’ at the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, 24/5/2016
Work in Progress: ‘How to Derive the Raison D'être of Schooling from one’s Ethics of Influence’ at the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia’s Annual meeting, at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education, 7/12/2013
‘The Ethics of Influence’ at the Postgraduate Conference in Humanities and Education, hosted by Mater Dei Institute of Education & St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, 13/4/2013

‘Is Critical Religious Education Impossibly Hubristic?’ at the Religion, Education and Critical Realism conference, at Oxford Brookes University, 7-8/9/2012
‘A Theory of Cognitive Curriculum Content’ at the Ideals and Reality in Social Ethics conference, at the University of Wales, 11-13/4/2012
‘A Theory of Cognitive Curriculum Content’ at the PESGB Annual Meeting at New College, Oxford University, 1/4/2012
‘Ethics on a Post RE Curriculum’ at the PESGB Annual Meeting at New College, Oxford University, 2/4/2011
‘Religious Education and the floodgates of impartiality’ at the PES Annual Meeting, in St. Louis, Missouri, (Respondent: Suzanne Rosenblith,) 25/3/2011
‘Can Education Change Society?’ at the Mid-Atlantic States Philosophy of Education Society (MASPES) Annual Meeting at New York University, 5/2/2011
‘Can Education Change Society?’ for GSCOPE’s Annual Meeting, at Ohio State University, 2/10/2010
‘Humanism and the Death of RE’ at BERA Early Career Researchers Conference, at Warwick University, 1/9/2010

Seminars and Public Lectures

Colloquium (Invited): ‘Reflective Equilibrium in Moral Education,’ Trinity College Dublin’s Metaphysical Society and Carlow College, Carlow College, 27/11/2015
Society Lecture (invited): ‘I am right, and you are wrong: The Ethics of Teaching for Belief,’ Trinity College Dublin, Metaphysical Society, 24/11/2015
Book Panel: on Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy’s The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Educationat the PESGB Annual Meeting at New College, Oxford University, 1/3/2015
Book Panel: on Diana Hess and Paula McAvoy’s The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Educationat the Philosophy of Education Society (PES) Annual Meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, 15/3/15
Colloquium (Invited): ‘Is it Conceivable or Desirable to Have Knowledge Uploaded, Matrix-style?’ Trinity College Dublin’s Metaphysical Society and Carlow College, Carlow College, 28/11/2014
Seminar (Invited): ‘How are Parental Responsibilities Grounded?’, Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin City University , T&L and Research Seminars, 28/11/2014
Seminar: ‘Parent-Child Relationships, Responsibility and Upbringing’, New Research in Philosophy of Education Meeting, University of Sheffield, 11/10/14
Society Lecture (invited): ‘The Ethics of Influence’, Trinity College Dublin, Metaphysical Society 25/2/2014
Seminar (Invited): ‘The Ethics of Influence’, PESGB Birmingham Branch 5/3/2013
Seminar (Invited): ‘A Theory of Cognitive Curriculum Content’ for a Humanities and Social Science (University of London) and Laboratoryof Education and Society (KU Leuven) colloquium, KU Leuven 22/5/2012
Public Lecture: ‘What Should all Children Know?’ at Conway Hall, London, 15/4/2012
Seminar (Invited): Elmer Thiessen and Ethics of Evangelism’ for a CTRC Religious, Spiritual & Theological Education Research Seminar at King’s College London, 1/2/2012
Seminar (invited): ‘Michael Hand and the Curriculum’ for a CTRC Religious, Spiritual & Theological Education Research Seminar at King’s College London, 5/9/2011
Seminar (invited): ‘What Ought to Become of RE?’ for a CTRC Religious, Spiritual & Theological Education Research Seminar at King’s College London, 2/2/2011
Public Lecture: ‘Religious Education and the Floodgates of Impartiality’ at Conway Hall, London, 23/1/2011
Public lecture (invited): ‘Ethics on post-RE curriculum’ at Conway Hall, London, 25/4/2010
Seminar: ‘Ethics on post-RE curriculum’, Durham University Philosophical Society, 29/4/2010

Membership of Professional Bodies and Learned Societies

Bajo Palabra, Journal of Philosophy (editorial board member; Philosophy of Education specialist)
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (member)
Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia(member)
British Humanist Association (awarded honorary lifetime membership)
South Place Ethical Society (awarded honorary lifetime membership)
Journal of Philosophy of Education: reviewer
Journal of Philosophy in Schools: reviewer
Philosophical Inquiry in Education: reviewer
British Journal of Religious Education: reviewer
Trinity College Dublin’s Metaphysical Society (awarded honorary lifetime membership)

Panel Chairing and Participation

Discussion panelist (Invited): ‘We Are Our DNA’, with Dr. Miguel De Arce; Dr. Kevin Denny; Veronica Walsh; Prof. Arun Bokde; Prof. Cornelius Casey; Donall McGinley; Chair: Dr. Eoin O'Malley, Trinity College Dublin, a joint meeting of the Genetic, Metaphysical and Theological Societies. 11/11/2014

IOE Student Union International Education and Culture Week panel discussion (invited): ‘Religion, Science and Education’, with Professors Michael Reiss, and Michael Hand at the Institute of Education, University of London, 29/5/12

Discussion panelist (invited), secular representative at a Sixth Form RE conference, 22/6/2009
Chaired a Q&A on ELP with AW Moore, for reading group 20/6/2010
Chair for a faith schools panel discussion with Michael Hand, Abdullah Trevathan, Eva Gamarnikow and Andrew Copson, Religion and School Life MA module, Institute of Education, University of London, 16/2/2011

Summer School Participation and other

Group facilitator at PESGB Philosophy of Education Postgraduate Summer School on Religion and Education, led by Professor Michael Merry, at University of Birmingham, 4-8/7/2016
Group facilitator at PESGB Philosophy of Education Undergraduate Summer School, at Roehampton University, 28-30/6/2010; 26-28/6/2012
Attendedthe PESGB Philosophy of Education, Postgraduate Summer School on Civic Education, led by Professor Meira Levinson, at Roehampton University, 27/6 - 1/7/2011

PESGB funded place at Ethics Forum for Teacher Educators, 21-22/1/2011
PESGB 50th anniversary scholarship attendance at the PESGBAnnual Meeting at New College, Oxford University, 2015
Co-ran a reading group onEthics and the Limits of Philosophy (by Bernard Williams) at the IoE, with Dr. RuthCigman, 2010

Educational Film Making

Won PESGB commission to produce and direct a series of five video-interviews with philosophers of education: Michael Hand, Richard Pring, Paul Standish, Judith Suissa, and Carrie Winstanley
Producer/ Director: Michael Hand, John White, Andrew Copson and David E. Cooper on Religious Education available on Vimeo and YouTube

Dr John Tillson BA (Dunelm) PGCE MA PhD

Values Education Consultant

International Olympic Committee

Four days of contracted work, 27th – 30th May 2015

Reviewing and evaluating values policy documents and educational materials
Contributing to a two day working group seminar in Berlin

Theos, Think Tank Internship – Researcher

November 21st – December 9th 2011 (three week internship)

Writing a critical appraisal from a humanist perspective of Elmer Thiessen’s The Ethics of Evangelism, aiming for publication in the Journal of Education and Christian Belief
Writing a short current debate piece for the website:
Updating the website’s media monitoring page

Times Educational Supplement, Internship - Journalism

October 10th – 14th 2011 (one week internship)

Researching and writing articles for publication in TES (see publications)

British Humanist Association, Internship - Researcher

August – September 2010 (one month internship)

Researching perspectives on humanism’s place within RE, amongst policy documents, legislation, parliamentary debate, and theoretical and empirical research

Protocol Education, Supply TA and Teacher

September 2011 – July 2011

Special Needs Classroom Support/ teacher at Trinity School, Dagenham
Special Needs Classroom Support at Hatton School, Redbridge

Tutor of Mathematics and English at Our Lady, RC Primary School, Tower Hamlets

February 2011 – July 2011 (agency worker)

Providing 1:1 tutoring for children, often with SEN, falling behind in Key Stage 2b Maths and English
Setting learning targets and monitoring progress in collaboration with class teachers

Learning Support at Alma Primary School, Enfield

October 2010 – January 2011 (agency worker)

Learning support for severely autistic twins in reception
Providing hand over hand and modelling support
Designing learning environments
Researching and implementing educational initiatives (e.g. a visual time table)

Teaching Assistant at Gladesmore Community School, Seven Sisters

September – October 2009 (agency worker)

Key worker to two statemented year eight boys
Following up pastoral, behavioural and academic issues
General classroom and teaching assistance and behaviour management

Teaching Assistant at Thomas Fairchild Community School, Hackney

April – June 2008 (agency worker)

Assisting year five and six pupils with all aspects of curriculum
1:1 tutoring for children with additional learning needs (including SEN)
Supervising children in the playground at break and lunch time
Providing teacher with feedback on children’s progress

Graduate Teacher of RE at Canon Palmer, RC Secondary School, Seven Kings

January – March 2008 (One half term)

Planning, delivering eighteen hour long lessons each week
Teaching classes across the full range of key stages 3 and 4
Writing revision material for year 11 GCSE students preparing for exams