The University of Queensland

Eco-rational education: an educational response to environmental crisis

Thornton, Simone (2023). Eco-rational education: an educational response to environmental crisis. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003144489

Teaching democracy in an age of uncertainty: place-responsive learning

Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2022). Teaching democracy in an age of uncertainty: place-responsive learning. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003098089

Philosophical inquiry with children: the development of an inquiring society in Australia

Gilbert Burgh and Simone Thornton eds. (2019). Philosophical inquiry with children: the development of an inquiring society in Australia. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429431821

Rethinking teacher preparation for teaching: controversial topics in a community of inquiry

Thornton, Simone, Burgh, Gilbert, Bleazby, Jennifer and Graham, Mary (2023). Rethinking teacher preparation for teaching: controversial topics in a community of inquiry. Philosophy with children and teacher education: global perspectives on critical, creative and caring thinking. (pp. 194-203) edited by Arie Kizel. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003212737-25

Growing up with philosophy in Australia: philosophy as cultural discourse

Thornton, Simone and Burgh, Gilbert (2019). Growing up with philosophy in Australia: philosophy as cultural discourse. Philosophical inquiry with children: the development of an inquiring society in Australia. (pp. 236-249) edited by Gilbert Burgh and Simone Thornton. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429431821-22

The philosophical classroom: an Australian story

Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2019). The philosophical classroom: an Australian story. Philosophical inquiry with children: the development of an inquiring society in Australia. (pp. 1-5) edited by Gilbert Burgh and Simone Thornton. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429431821-1

‘Do not block the way of inquiry’: cultivating collective doubt through sustained deep reflective thinking

Burgh, Gilbert, Thornton, Simone and Fynes-Clinton, Liz (2018). ‘Do not block the way of inquiry’: cultivating collective doubt through sustained deep reflective thinking. Parecidos de familia. Propuestas actuales en Filosofía para Niños [Family Resemblances: Current trends in philosophy for children]. (pp. 47-61) edited by Ellen Duthie, Félix García Moriyón and Rafael Robles Loro. Madrid, Spain: Anaya.

From Harry to Philosophy Park: the development of philosophy for children resources in Australia

Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2017). From Harry to Philosophy Park: the development of philosophy for children resources in Australia. The Routledge international handbook of philosophy for children. (pp. 163-170) edited by Maughn Rollins Gregory, Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315726625-34

Making peace education everyone’s business

Thornton, Simone and Burgh, Gilbert (2017). Making peace education everyone’s business. Inclusion, diversity and intercultural dialogue in young people's philosophical inquiry. (pp. 55-65) edited by Ching-Ching Lin and Lavina Sequeira. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. doi: 10.1007/978-94-6351-065-3

Teaching about climate change in the midst of ecological crisis: responsibilities, challenges, and responsibilities

Bleazby, Jennifer, Burgh, Gilbert, Thornton, Simone, Graham, Mary, Reid, Alan and Finefter-Ronsebluh, Ilana (2023). Teaching about climate change in the midst of ecological crisis: responsibilities, challenges, and responsibilities. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55 (10), 1087-1095. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2023.2211260

Responding to climate change ‘controversy’ in schools: Philosophy for Children, place-responsive pedagogies & Critical Indigenous Pedagogy

Bleazby, Jennifer, Thornton, Simone, Burgh, Gilbert and Graham, Mary (2023). Responding to climate change ‘controversy’ in schools: Philosophy for Children, place-responsive pedagogies & Critical Indigenous Pedagogy. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55 (10), 1096-1108. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2132933

Place-based philosophical education: reconstructing ‘place’, reconstructing ethics

Thornton, Simone, Graham, Mary and Burgh, Gilbert (2021). Place-based philosophical education: reconstructing ‘place’, reconstructing ethics. Childhood and Philosophy, 17, 1-29. doi: 10.12957/childphilo.2021.54696

Reflecting on place: environmental education as decolonisation

Thornton, Simone, Graham, Mary and Burgh, Gilbert (2019). Reflecting on place: environmental education as decolonisation. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 35 (3), 239-249. doi: 10.1017/aee.2019.31

Ecosocial citizenship education: facilitating interconnective, deliberative practice and corrective methodology for epistemic accountability

Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2019). Ecosocial citizenship education: facilitating interconnective, deliberative practice and corrective methodology for epistemic accountability. Childhood and Philosophy, 15, 43-61. doi: 10.12957/childphilo.2019.42794

The educational cost of philosophical suicide: what it means to be lucid

Thornton, Simone (2018). The educational cost of philosophical suicide: what it means to be lucid. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (6), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2018.1493681

Philosophy goes to school in Australia: A history 1982-2016

Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2016). Philosophy goes to school in Australia: A history 1982-2016. Journal of Philosophy in Schools, 3 (1), 59-83. doi: 10.21913/jps.v3i1.1300

Lucid education: resisting resistance to inquiry

Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2016). Lucid education: resisting resistance to inquiry. Oxford Review of Education, 42 (2), 165-177. doi: 10.1080/03054985.2016.1151410

Inoculation against wonder: finding an antidote in Camus, pragmatism and the community of inquiry

Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2016). Inoculation against wonder: finding an antidote in Camus, pragmatism and the community of inquiry. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48 (9), 884-898. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2015.1079516

Philosophical suicide in education: what Camus can teach us

Thornton, Simone (2018). Philosophical suicide in education: what Camus can teach us. 47th Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia: Birth, Death and Re-birth: Does philosophy of education need a new Subject?, Newcastle, Australia, 1–5 December 2017. Claremont, WA, Australia: Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.

Philosophy for children in Australia: then, now, and where to from here?

Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2016). Philosophy for children in Australia: then, now, and where to from here?. 45th Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Melbourne, Australia, 5-8 December 2015. PESA.

Engagement as dialogue: Camus, pragmatism and constructivist pedagogy

Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2015). Engagement as dialogue: Camus, pragmatism and constructivist pedagogy. Education as Philosophies of Engagement: 44th Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), Hamilton, New Zealand, 22-25 November 2014. Claremont, WA, Australia: Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.

Disruptive philosophies: Eco-rational education and the epistemology of place ​​​​​​​

Thornton, Simone Gralton (2019). Disruptive philosophies: Eco-rational education and the epistemology of place ​​​​​​​. PhD Thesis, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.534