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Dr. RENATO HUARTE

PRESIDENT

Renato Huarte Cuéllar holds a BA in Philosophy and Pedagogy, an MA in Philosophy of Science, and a PhD in Philosophy from Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM). He has been professor in the area of Theory, Philosophy and History of Education and Pedagogy since 2005. He is responsible of the Research Group in Philosophy of Education at the School of Philosophy and Literature at UNAM. Together with several colleagues in 2010 he founded the Latin American Association of Philosophy of Education (ALFE). He has been a Board Member of ALFE since 2010 and its President since 2015.

PROF. YASUSHI MARUYAMA

CONFERENCE CHAIR 2026

Yasushi Maruyama, Ph. D. (Florida State University) is Professor of Philosophy of Education at Hiroshima University, Japan, and is currently the Dean of the School of Education, Hiroshima University. He has served as an editor of various academic journals, including the editor-in-chief of Studies in the Philosophy of Education, a Journal of The Philosophy of Education Society of Japan. His research interests contain the philosophy of Wittgenstein, philosophy of mind, ethics of teaching, professional ethics education and postcolonialism. Among his publications are “Ethics Education for Professionals in Japan: A Critical Review” (in Educational Philosophy and Theory, vol. 42, no. 4, 2010); Teaching Moral Education (Kyodoshuppan, 2014); “Elucidation in the Transition of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy” and “How Should We Recognize the Otherness of Learners? Hegelian and Wittgensteinian Views” (in A Companion to Wittgenstein on Education: Pedagogical Investigations, Springer, 2017); Undertaking Teacher Education (Keisuisha, 2019); “The Ethico-Aesthetics of Teaching: Toward a Theory of Relational Practice in Education,” Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol.56, No. 2, 2022, and others.

PROF. MARINA SCHWIMMER

CONFERENCE ORGANISER 2026

Marina Schwimmer is a full professor of educational foundations at the Université du Québec à Montréal and chief-editor of the journal Éthique en éducation et en formation. Her work is mainly rooted in the field of philosophy of education. She is interested in a number of issues relating to educational practices and policies, the culture of well-being and teacher ethics. Recently, she has taken a particular interest in the notion of criticism and experimental approaches in education.

Prof. Nuraan Davids

PROGRAMME CHAIR 2024

Nuraan Davids is a professor of Philosophy of Education in the Department of Education Policy Studies in the Faculty of Education at Stellenbosch University. She is an NRF-rated researcher, whose research interests include democratic citizenship education, Islamic philosophy of education and philosophy of higher education. She was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2020–2021). She is a co-editor of the Routledge series World Issues in the Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education, a co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Education in Muslim Societies, an associate editor of the South African Journal of Higher Education and an editorial board member of Ethics and Education. She is a recipient of the NRF Research Excellence Award for Female Emerging Researcher (2015), an SU Distinguished Teacher Award (2017), the CHE/HELTASA National Excellence in Teaching and Learning Commendation (2017), an SU Research Excellence Award (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020), an SU Media Thought Leader Award (2018, 2019) and an SU Chancellor’s Award: Research (2020). Recent books (with Prof. Y. Waghid) include Academic activism in higher education: A living philosophy for social justice (Springer, 2021); Teaching, friendship & humanity (Springer, 2020); and Teachers matter: Educational philosophy and authentic learning (Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Series, 2020).

Prof. Amanda Fulford

CONFERENCE ORGANISER 2024

Amanda Fulford is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Associate Dean for Research and Impact at Edge Hill University in the UK. Her research interests are in philosophy of education, philosophy of higher education and public and community philosophy. Her publications include “Philosophy and Theory in Educational Research: Writing in the Margin” with Naomi Hodgson (Routledge, 2016) and “Philosophy, Education and Community: Theories Practices and Possibilities” (edited with Grace Lockrobin and Richard Smith, Bloomsbury 2020). She has published numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) and on the Governing Council of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

Dr. Kjetil Horn Hogstad

SECRETARY TREASURER

Lecturer, Institutt for Pedagogikk, University of Oslo

Dr. Lovisa Bergdahl

PROGRAMME CHAIR 2022

I am an Associate Professor in philosophy of education at Södertörn University, and my research can be placed at the intersection of philosophy of education and general pedagogy. More particularly, I am interested in the conditions for the formative role of teachers and schools in late modern societies and the pedagogical and ethical questions this situation gives rise to in the classroom. This research area involves an interest in issues like cosmopolitan and deliberative models of education, the role of the school in creating commonality, the role of the body and the senses in educational formation, the linguistic coding of teaching. I publish in philosophy of education drawing inspiration from pedagogical theory, religious studies/theology, and feminist philosophy.

Dr. Oliver Kauffmann

CONFERENCE ORGANISER 2022

Associate Professor, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University

Dr. SeÁn Henry

Dr Seán Henry is a Lecturer in Education at Edge Hill University. His research engages with philosophy of education to reflect on the capacity of education to affect social change in the context of pluralist societies. His published and ongoing work has brought this commitment to bear on the themes of religion, theology, and education; queer theory and education; humour and the emotionality of social justice teaching; and the nature of academic work in higher education. His monograph entitled Queer Thriving in Religious Schools has recently been published by Routledge in 2023.

Dr. Victoria Jamieson

Having completed my doctorate in philosophy of education, I am an early career researcher within the department of Early Years Education at Edge Hill University in the UK. I am committed to furthering philosophy of education, and to supporting scholars and emerging fields of scholarship. To demonstrate this commitment, I am the Co-founder of the Philosophy of Education reading Network, which provides regular opportunities for scholars from around the world to meet together and to read and discuss key philosophical texts. This initiative strongly supports those who might otherwise not have access to thinking philosophically together. I am also co-lead for the Education for Social Justice Network at Edge Hill University. This interdisciplinary network works to provide opportunities for scholars with a broad interest in social justice as it pertains to education. It works to strengthen the research community and to develop socially just ways of doing research together.

Dr. Samuel Mendonça

Samuel Mendonça has been a Full Professor of the Education Postgraduate Program at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas since 2000. He will attend as a Visiting Scholar in the Teachers College Columbia University in 2025. He is Productivity Fellow 1D of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, CNPq. He is the Main researcher of the CPTEn - São Paulo Center for Energy Transition Studies, Vice Coordinator of the REDPEEL - Red de Posgrados en Educación en Latinoamérica, and the Assistant Editor of the Labour and Human Development Law Journal. In 2010 he founded with some colleagues the Latin American Association of Philosophy of Education (ALFE) and became a President until 2015. He was President of the Brazilian Philosophy of Education Society, SOFIE (2018-2022). Samuel is the author of Revalorando o papel do educador na educação de jovens e adultos: formação de professores da educação de jovens e adultos no Brasil (Novas Edições Acadêmicas, 2014), Desafios para a educação democrática e pública de qualidade no Brasil (Appris, 2016) and Aristocratic Education in Nietzsche: Individual Achievement (Maryland: GlobalSouth, 2018), and he organized several books as: A Escola: uma questão pública (Parábola, 2020), A Escola: problema filosófico (Parábola, 2020).

Dr. Veli-Mikko Kauppi

Dr. Kauppi received his PhD on John Dewey’s theory of intelligence. He is currently writing on the aesthetics and corporeality of intelligence; on imitation, education, and society on the basis of Dewey and Gabriel Tarde; on critical thinking; and on Dewey’s social philosophy. Dr. Kauppi is a member of the current executive organising committee of the annual conference of the Finnish Educational Research Association (FERA), the largest national educational conference in Finland.

Juliette Clara Bertoldo

COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER

Dr. Bertoldo's journey began with professional dance training and extensive work in visual media, devoting over ten years to experimenting with aesthetic and embodied modes of creation. Alongside her artistic practice, she completed an MA in Educational Studies at the University of Glasgow in 2018 and recently defended her PhD in the Department of Education at Maynooth University. Her work explores the educational value of death, art, and aesthetics in a time of planetary unrest and thinks predominantly with critical posthumanism, queer death studies, and extinction studies. She has published a number of articles on the relevance of these interrelated issues to education, the latest to date in Research in Arts and Education and Philosophy of Education Society.