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John White

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Education at UCL Institute of Education

John White is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Education at UCL Institute of Education, where he worked from 1965 until 2000 after teaching in secondary schools and colleges. During the Labour governments of 1997–2010 he was an adviser to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). His interests are wide-ranging and include the mind of the learner, and educational aims and curricula. Older books include Towards a Compulsory Curriculum (1973), The Aims of Education Restated (1982), Education and the Good Life (1990) and Education and the End of Work: A New Philosophy of Work and Learning (1997). More recent ones include The Child’s Mind (2002), Intelligence, Destiny and Education: The Ideological Origins of Intelligence Testing (2006), What Schools Are For and Why (2007), Exploring Well-being in Schools (2011), The Invention of the Secondary Curriculum (2011), An Aims-based Curriculum (with Michael Reiss) (2013), Who Needs Examinations? Climbing Ladders and Dodging Snakes (2014), and What’s Wrong with Private Education? (2015).
More than 400 of his publications, many of them freely downloadable, are viewable at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_White53

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