Professional Background
Associate Prof Philosophy & Ed
Educational Background
Megan Laverty received her Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of New South Wales. She taught in the Philosophy Department at the University of Melbourne before taking up the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University (MSU) in 2000. Megan Laverty came to Teachers College in 2005.
Scholarly Interests
As a philosopher of education my
research is in the area of moral philosophy with a focus on language,
communication, civility and dialogue. Within this field of study, I focus
on the following philosophers: contemporary neo-Wittgensteinians that include
Iris Murdoch, Stephen Mulhall and Cora Diamond; Aristotle; Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and Immanuel Kant; the English and German Romantics from the 18th
Century; and John Dewey from the 20th Century.
Selected Publications
* Iris Murdoch’s Ethics: A Consideration of her Romantic Vision (
* “Learning Our Concepts", Journal of Philosophy of Education (forthcoming 2010).
* “Rousseau on the Varieties of Listening”, Educational Theory (forthcoming 2010).
* Review of Gert Biesta’s Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future in Studies in Philosophy and Education, (2009) Vol. 28, No. 6: p. 569.
* “The Bonds of Learning: Dialogue and the Question of Human Solidarity”. Philosophy of Education 2008 (Urbana, IL: Philosophy of Education Society, 2009), pp.120-128.
* “The Role of Dialogical Philosophical Inquiry in the Teaching of Tolerance and Sympathy”. Learning Inquiry (2007) Vol. 1 No. 2, pp. 125-132.
* “Evaluating Classroom Dialogue: Reconciling Internal and External Accountability”, co-authored with Maughn Gregory, Theory and Research in Education (November 2007), vol. 5, no. 3. pp. 281-307.
Megan Laverty
Associate Prof Philosophy & Ed
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