Dr Gilbert Burgh

Dr Gilbert Burgh
Dr Gilbert Burgh
Position:
 
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Convenor of Philosophy Discipline
Undergraduate Advisor for Philosophy
 
Contact Details:
 
Office: E323, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Phone: +61 7 3365 6348 (St Lucia); +61 7 3381 1564 (Ipswich)
Email: g.burgh@uq.edu.au
 
Qualifications:
 
BA(Hons)
PhD, Qld
 
Teaching:
  • PHIL1013 Introduction to Ethics (Ipswich)
  • PHIL2700 Philosophy and Education
  • PHIL3630 Advanced Topics in Moral and Political Philosophy
  • WRIT2140 Writing Philosophy: Social Ethics
 
Research Interests:
 
Educational philosophy (philosophy functioning educationally); Ethics, and social and political philosophy, esp. democracy, citizenship, alternatives to electoral politics, democracy and education, and deliberative politics.
 
Current Research Projects:
 
John Dewey’s theory of democracy and education; Matthew Lipman’s practice of philosophy as the methodology of education; the philosophical development of ‘community of inquiry’ in educational discourse; collaborative inquiry-based teaching and learning through philosophy.
 
Selected Recent Publications:
 
Books
  • 2008 Values Education in Schools: A resource book for student inquiry (co-author with Mark Freakley & Lyne Tilt MacSporran), Camberwell, Vic.: Australian Council for Educational Research.
  • 2006 Ethics and the Community of Inquiry: Education for deliberative democracy (co-author with Terri Field & Mark Freakley), South Melbourne, Vic.: Cengage/Thomson, 2006.
 
Journal articles, book chapters, proceeding papers and reviews
  • 2012 ‘The effects of two strategic and meta-cognitive questioning approaches on children’s explanatory behaviour, problem-solving, and learning during cooperative, inquiry-based science’ (co-author with Robyn Gillies, Robyn, Kim; Nichols & Michele Haynes), International Journal of Educational Research: forthcoming.
  • 2012 ‘Philosophical Inquiry and Science Education’ (co-author with Kim Nichols), Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44(10): 1045-1059.
  • 2011 ‘Promoting problem-solving and reasoning during cooperative inquiry science’ (co-author with Robyn Gillies & Kim Nichols), Teaching Education, 22(4): 429-445.
  • 2011 ‘Communities of Inquiry: Politics, power and group dynamics’ (co-author with Mor Yorshansky), Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43(5): 436-452.
  • 2010 ‘Citizenship as a Learning Process: Democratic education without foundationalism’, in Darryl R.J. Macer and Souria Saad-Zoy, eds, Asian-Arab Philosophical Dialogues on Globalization, Democracy and Human Rights, Bangkok Thailand: UNESCO, Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences in Asia and the Pacific: 59-69.
  • 2009 ‘Reconstruction in philosophy education: The community of inquiry as a basis for knowledge and learning’, in Proceedings of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 2008 Conference. The Ownership and Dissemination of Knowledge, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Conference, Queensland University of Technology, 4-7 December 2008: 65-1-65-12. 
See full list of publications.
 
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