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Recasting “Fundamental ‘British’ Values”: Education, Justice, and Preventing Violent Extremism (2023)
Journal Article
Stevens, D. (2023). Recasting “Fundamental ‘British’ Values”: Education, Justice, and Preventing Violent Extremism. Educational Theory, 73(3), 355-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12584

Societies concerned with preventing acts of violent extremism often target the ideas that are thought to motivate such acts. The state's use of educational institutions is one mechanism by which those ideas are subjected to challenge. Teaching libera... Read More about Recasting “Fundamental ‘British’ Values”: Education, Justice, and Preventing Violent Extremism.

In defence of ‘Toma’: algorithmic enhancement of a sense of justice (2020)
Book Chapter
Stevens, D. (2020). In defence of ‘Toma’: algorithmic enhancement of a sense of justice. In Life and the Law in the Era of Data-Driven Agency. Edward Elgar Publishing

Despite serious reservations over issues of transparency, accountability, bias, and the like, algorithms offer a potentially significant contribution to furthering human well-being via the influencing of beliefs, desires, and choices. Should governme... Read More about In defence of ‘Toma’: algorithmic enhancement of a sense of justice.

The poverty of contractarian moral education (2019)
Journal Article
Clayton, M., & Stevens, D. (2019). The poverty of contractarian moral education. Journal of Moral Education, 48(4), 501-514. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2019.1576123

In A Theory of Moral Education, Michael Hand claims that a directive moral education that seeks to persuade children that a particular conception of contractarian morality is justified can be undertaken without falling foul of the requirement not to... Read More about The poverty of contractarian moral education.

What is the point of religious education? (2018)
Journal Article
Clayton, M., & Stevens, D. (2018). What is the point of religious education?. Theory and Research in Education, 16(1), 65-81. https://doi.org/10.1177/1477878518762217

Some liberal societies continue to require their schools to offer non-directive, but specifically religious education as part of the curriculum. This paper challenges that practice. It does so by articulating and defending a moral principle, which as... Read More about What is the point of religious education?.

Is the free market acceptable to everyone? (2015)
Journal Article
Clayton, M., & Stevens, D. (in press). Is the free market acceptable to everyone?. Res Publica, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-015-9298-6

In this paper we take issue with two central claims that John Tomasi makes in Free Market Fairness (2012). The first claim is that Rawls’s difference principle can better be realized by free market institutions than it can be by state interventionist... Read More about Is the free market acceptable to everyone?.

Echo chambers and online radicalism: assessing the Internet's complicity in violent extremism (2015)
Journal Article
O'Hara, K., & Stevens, D. (in press). Echo chambers and online radicalism: assessing the Internet's complicity in violent extremism. Policy and Internet, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.88

This article considers claims made by various authors that the use of filtering and recommendation technology on the Internet can deprive certain communities of feedback, and instead amplify groups' viewpoints, leading to polarization of opinion acro... Read More about Echo chambers and online radicalism: assessing the Internet's complicity in violent extremism.

Creating greener citizens: political liberalism and a robust environmental education (2014)
Journal Article
Stevens, D. (in press). Creating greener citizens: political liberalism and a robust environmental education. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 33(5), https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-014-9403-x

Proponents of environmentalist views often urge the teaching of such views and the inculcation of ‘green’ values within the educational curriculum of schools as a key component of achieving their ends. It might seem that modern versions of political... Read More about Creating greener citizens: political liberalism and a robust environmental education.