Child Poverty and Education: Philosophical Reflections seminar series

Seminar 6: Roundtable

Date: Thursday 6th June, 2021

Revisiting philosophical reflections on Child Poverty and Education: which ways forward? The closing roundtable aimed to bring together the different normative, political and educational themes that emerged in the course of the seminars in order to further the philosophical debate on the topic while providing ideas to inform practice in the field.

Tania Burchardt (LSE)

Tania Burchardt is Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), Deputy Director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics.

Tania’s research interests lie in theories of justice, including the capability approach, measurement of inequality and applied welfare policy analysis. She has held research grants from the British Academy, ESRC, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Nuffield Foundation and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, and, with Polly Vizard, has led the programme of research on capability, equality and human rights within CASE.

Tania’s work includes:

  • Social policy in a cold climate: policies and their consequences since the crisis. CASE studies on poverty, place and policy (Edited with Ruth Lupton et al, Policy Press, 2016)
  • Social justice and public policy: seeking fairness in diverse societies (Edited with Gary Craig and David Gordon, Policy Press, 2008)
  • The education and employment of disabled young people: frustrated ambition (Policy Press, 2005)

Tania Burchardt, Child poverty in and out of school

Jonathan Wolff

Jonathan Wolff is the Alfred Landecker Professor of Values and Public Policy and Governing Body Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.

He is a political philosopher who works on issues of equality, disadvantage, social justice and poverty, as well as applied topics such as public safety, disability, gambling, and the regulation of recreational drugs, which he has discussed in his books Ethics and Public Policy: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge 2011) and The Human Right to Health (Norton 2012).

He is currently developing a new research programme on revitalising democracy and civil society.

Jonathan’s other works include:

  • An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (Norton 2018)
  • Disadvantage (with Avner de-Shalit, OUP 2007)
  • An Introduction to Political Philosophy (OUP, 1996, third edition 2016)
  • Why Read Marx Today? (OUP 2002)
  • Robert Nozick (Polity 1991)

Jonathan Wolff, They’re spoilt and they’re lazy, Miss!

Ann Phoenix (UCL Institute of Education)

Ann Phoenix is Professor of Psychosocial Studies at the Social Research Institute, UCL Institute of Education. Her research interests include motherhood, social identities, parenting practices, young people, racialisation and gender and she has recently worked on funded projects on boys and masculinities, young people and consumption, and adult reconceptualisations of “non-normative’ childhoods”, particularly in the context of serial migration, visibly ethnically mixed households and language brokering in transnational families.

Ann’s publications include:

  • Environment in the Lives of Children and Families Perspectives from India and the UK (with Janet Boddy et al, Policy Press, 2017)
  • Black, white or mixed race? Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage. Revised Edition. (with Barbara Tizard, London: Routledge 2002)
  • Motherhood, meanings, practices and ideologies (with Anne Woollett and Eva Lloyd, SAGE, 1991)