Professor Emeritus of Policy and Government, Schar School of Policy and Government
Contact Information
Phone: 703-993-8310
Fairfax Campus, Research Hall Room 327
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
MSN: 3F4
Biography
Hugh T. Sockett is professor emeritus of policy and government working in the Schar School of Policy and Government. His PhD is in philosophy of education from the University of London.
After Oxford, Sockett taught high school in London for five years and then entered college and university teaching in London, moving to Cambridge and then Northern Ireland before becoming dean of education at the University of East Anglia.
He came to George Mason University after study leave at the University of Chicago and thereafter founded the Institute for Educational Transformation in 1991. He joined the Department of Public and International Affairs in 1999, which later merged with the School of Public Policy in 2014 to become the Schar School of Policy and Government.
His primary current interests are in the relationship between knowledge and virtue in professional teaching, the contribution of virtue ethics to philosophy of education, and the teaching of democracy to undergraduates.
Sockett has published numerous articles and six books. He coedited the 112th Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education in 2013, A Moral Critique of Contemporary Education.
Curriculum Vitae
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CURRENT RESEARCH
Teacher education, moral theory, democratic theory
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Classroom Ethics – April 2019. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Education online
Moral Thought in Educational Practice – 2018 (Routledge New York and London). 163 pages.
Knowledge and Virtue in Teaching: The Primacy of Dispositions – 2011 (Routledge, New York and London). 247 pages.
The Moral Base for Teacher Professionalism – 1993/2018 (Teachers College Press/, New York: publication in Chinese.
SELECTED ARTICLES
“Reviving Teaching for Freedom”: In Hand, M. and Davies R. Education, Ethics and Experience: Essays in Honour of Richard Pring. 2016. London and New York, Routledge. 149-160.
“Self-Portraiture: The Uses of Academic Autobiography.” Essay Review in Journal of Philosophy of Education 43:1 February 2009. 167-174
“Dispositions as Virtues: The Complexity of the Construct” In Journal of Teacher Education May 2009. 60: 291-303
“The Wider Ethical Dimensions of Education and Teaching.” 2010. In Bailey, R., Barrow, R., Carr, D, and McCarthy, C. The SAGE Handbook of Philosophy of Education. 237-253, London: Sage.
COURSES TAUGHT
Democratic Theory and Practice, Democracy and Education
RECENT PRESENTATIONS/PUBLICATIONS
The Philosophy of Education Society Conference: Chicago, March 2018. ‘Positional Goods and Social Benefits: A Plea for Altruism’. In press/online
‘The Philosophy of Education Society Conference/Yearbook, Seattle. March 2017. “Education and Civil Society.”
Areas of Research
- Education Policy
- Political Theory
- Philosophy of Education
- Epistemology
Affiliations
- Affiliation: Cultural Studies