Pedagogies of Punishment

Winston C. Thompson is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education and Associate Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy) at Ohio State University, USA. He is the Editor of Philosophical Foundations of Education (Bloomsbury, 2022).John Tillson is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy of Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK. He is the author of Children, Religion and the Ethics of Influence (Bloomsbury 2019).

Punishment of students is a fact of school life. Should it be? If so, what forms of punishment are justified and under what conditions? In this superb, edited book, Thompson and Tillson bring together noted philosophers and teacher educators for a comprehensive and definitive response to those questions.

• IntroductionPart I: Punishing Children: Foundational Analyses1. Should School Children be Punished?, Joan Goodman (University of Pennsylvania, USA)2. Punishment, Pupils, and School Rules, John Tillson (Liverpool Hope University, UK) and Winston C. Thompson (Ohio State University, USA)3. Responsibility and the Potential Punishment of Children, Larisa Svirsky (Brandeis University, USA)Part II: Punishment in Practice and at the Margins4. Justice for Trans Youth: Imagining Education Without Cisgenderism, Jenna Scaramanga (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK)5. Racialized Childhoods, Educational Goods, and “No Excuses” Schools: In Defense of Play and Agency, Abigail Beneke (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)6. Punishment in Early Childhood: Do Exclusionary Practices Threaten Children’s Moral Rights?, Joy Dangora Erickson (Endicott College, USA)7. A New Look at Shaming in Schools, Clio Stearns (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA) and Peter Stearns (George Mason University, USA)Part III: Due Process, Standing, and the Authority to Punish8. Due Process: Fairness in Procedure and Substance in the Public Schools, Todd A. DeMitchell (University of New Hampshire, USA)9. Taking Hypocrisy to School, Kartik Upadhyaya (Kings College London, UK) and John Tillson (Liverpool Hope University, UK) 10. The Punitive Classroom: Punishment and Punitive Feelings Between Adults and Children, Ruth Cigman (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK)Part IV: Exploring Alternatives to Punishment11. What We Talk About When We Talk About Punishments and Consequences, Avi Mintz (Newlane University, USA)12. Praise and Positive Behavior Management, Zoë A.Johnson King (University of Southern California, USA)13. Nudging School Discipline, Viktor Ivankovic (Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia)14. Making Sense of Student (Mis)behavior: A Critical Pragmatist Alternative to Pedagogies of Punishment, Barbara S. Stengel, Elizabeth A. Self and Rebecca A. Peterson (Vanderbilt University, USA)List of ContributorsIndex