Prof Sharon Todd

    Education, Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy

    Professor of Education

    Maynooth University School of Education
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    (01) 708 3466

    Biography

    Professor of Education at Maynooth since 2014. Educated at McGill and Concordia Universities in Montréal, I have a BA in Art History (1987), Dip Ed in Later Childhood Education (1988), MA in Philosophy of Education (1992) and PhD in Humanities (1996). Previous appointments include Professor of Education with a focus on Internationalisation and Interculturalism at Stockholm University (2004-2014).  My interests over the course of my academic life have been interdisciplinary in nature, and I bring into conversation the humanities-based traditions of scholarship with a social science commitment to concrete change and analysis. I have benefited enormously, both personally and professionally, from living in different cultural contexts and how they shape educational policies and practices.

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2022 Todd, S (2022) 'Teaching as Bodily Enactment: Relational Formations of Touch and Movement'. Discourse-Studies In The Cultural Politics Of Education, 43 (5):433-448. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2022 Todd S. (2022) 'Guoping Zhao’s Subjectivity and Infinity: Questions for Education in Times of Climate Emergency'. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 41 (5):579-582. [DOI]
    2022 Todd S. (2022) 'Reframing Education Beyond the Bounds of Strong instrumentalism: Educational Practices, Sensory Experience, and Relational Aesthetics'. Educational Theory, . [DOI]
    2021 Todd, S; Hoveid, MH; Langmann, E (2021) 'Educating the Senses: Explorations in Aesthetics, Embodiment and Sensory Pedagogy'. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 40 :243-248. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2021 Todd, S (2021) ''Landing on Earth:' an educational project for the present. A response to Vanessa Andreotti'. Ethics and Education, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2021 Todd, S (2021) 'Education, Contact and the Vitality of Touch: Membranes, Morphologies, Movements'. Studies in Philosophy and Education, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2020 Todd, S (2020) 'Creating Aesthetic Encounters of the World, or Teaching in the Presence of Climate Sorrow'. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 54 (3):1110-1125. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2018 Todd S. (2018) 'Foreword: Special Issue on Narrative Inquiry'. Irish Educational Studies, 37 (2):149-151. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2018 Todd S. (2018) 'Culturally reimagining education: Publicity, aesthetics and socially engaged art practice'. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50 (10):970-980. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Todd S.; Jones R.; O'Donnell A. (2016) 'Introduction: Shifting education's philosophical imaginaries: relations, affects, bodies, materialities'. Gender and Education, 28 (2):187-194. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Todd S. (2016) 'Facing uncertainty in education: Beyond the harmonies of Eurovision education'. European Educational Research Journal, 15 (6):619-627. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Todd S. (2016) 'New ethical challenges within environmental and sustainability education: a response'. Environmental Education Research, :842-844. [DOI]
    2016 Todd, Sharon (2016) 'Education Incarnate'. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48 (4):405-417. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2015 Todd, S (2015) 'Creating Transformative Spaces in Education: Facing Humanity, Facing Violence'. Paideusis-The Journal Of The Canadian Philosophy Of Education Society, 23 :53-61.
    2015 Arvola A.; Todd S.; Wickman P. (2015) 'Becoming a woman and a man in secondary school practice'. Nordic Studies in Education, :233-250.
    2015 Todd, S (2015) 'Experiencing Change, Encountering the Unknown: An Education in Negative Capability' in Light of Buddhism and Levinas'. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 49 :240-254. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2014 Sharon Todd (2014) 'Introduction to Passion, Commitment and Justice in Education'. Ethics and Education, 9 :39-41. [Full-Text]
    2014 Sharon Todd (2014) 'Between Body and Spirit: The Liminality of Pedagogical Relationships'. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 48 :231-245. [Full-Text]
    2014 Sharon Todd (2014) '“A Subtle Pedagogy: A Response to Megan Laverty.”'. Ethics and Education, 9 :54-57. [Full-Text]
    2011 Sharon Todd (2011) 'Educating Beyond Cultural Diversity: Redrawing the Boundaries of a Democratic Plurality'. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 30 :101-111. [Full-Text]
    2011 Sharon Todd (2011) '“Going to the Heart of the Matter'. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 30 :507-512. [Full-Text]
    2011 Todd, S. (2011) 'The 'Veiling' Question: On the Demand for Visibility in Communicative Encounters in Education'. Philosophy of Education, 2010 . [Full-Text]
    2011 Sharon Todd (2011) '“Becoming Present in Context: the politics of the gap in educational transformation”'. European Journal of Education, 10 :363-366. [Full-Text]
    2010 Sharon Todd (2010) '“Living in a World of Dissonance: Toward an Agonistic Cosmopolitics for Education.”'. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 29 :213-228. [Full-Text]
    2010 Sharon Todd (2010) '“Can There be Pluralism without Conflict?”'. Philosophy of Education, 2009 :51-59. [Full-Text]
    2009 Sharon Todd (2009) '“Universality and the Daunting Task of Cultural Translation.”'. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 43 :18-23. [Full-Text]
    2009 Sharon Todd (2009) '“The Belated Time of Reading, or Inconsolable Ethics.”'. Philosophy of Education, 2008 :67-71. [Full-Text]
    2008 Sharon Todd & Carl Anders Säfström (2008) '“Democracy, Education and Conflict: Rethinking Respect and the Place of the Ethical.”'. 3 (1). [Full-Text]
    2007 Todd, S. (2007) 'On the Limits of Preparing for Democratic Living, or the Need for an Imperfect Education'. Utbildning & Demokrati, 27 (1):62-65.
    2007 Sharon Todd (2007) '“Teachers Judging without Scripts, or Thinking Cosmopolitan.”'. Ethics and Education, 2 :25-38. [Full-Text]
    2007 Sharon Todd (2007) '“Promoting a Just Education: Dilemmas of Rights, Freedom and Justice.”'. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 39 :592-603. [Full-Text]
    2006 Todd, S. (2006) 'Unveiling Cross-cultural Conflict: Gendered Cultural Practice in Polycultural Society'. Philosophy of Education, 2005 . [Full-Text]
    2006 Todd, S. (2006) ''Like Travellers Navigating an Unknown Terrain': Seyla Benhabib on Rights and Borders of Belonging'. Utbildning & Demokrati, 15 (1):109-118. [Full-Text]
    2005 Todd, S. (2005) 'What is the Use of the Teacher?'. Philosophy of Education, 2004 . [Full-Text]
    2004 Todd, S. (2004) 'Teaching with Ignorance: Questions on Social Justice, Empathy and Responsible Community'. Interchange, 35 (4):337-352. [Full-Text]
    2003 Todd, S. (2003) 'Listening as Attending to the Echo of the Otherwise: On Suffering, Justice and Education'. Philosophy of Education, 2002 :405-412. [Full-Text]
    2003 Todd, S. (2003) 'A Fine Risk to be Run? The Ambiguity of Eros and Teacher Responsibility'. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 22 (1):31-44. [Full-Text]
    2003 Todd, S. (2003) 'Introduction: Levinas and the Question of Implication'. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 22 (1):1-4. [Full-Text]
    2002 Todd, S. (2002) 'Utbildning som Rättvisa Praktik'. Utbildning & Demokrati, .
    2002 Todd, S. (2002) 'On Not Knowing the Other, or Learning from Levinas'. Philosophy of Education, 2001 . [Full-Text]
    2001 Todd, S. (2001) ''Bringing More than I Contain': Ethics, Curriculum and the Pedagogical Demand for Altered Egos'. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 33 (4):431-450. [Full-Text]
    2001 Todd, S. (2001) 'Guilt, Suffering and Responsibility'. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 35 (4):597-614. [Full-Text]

    Book

    Year Publication
    2016 Todd, S., R. Jones, A. O'Donnell (2016) Special Issue of Gender and Education: Shifting Education's Philosophical Imaginaries. London: T&F.
    2015 Todd, Sharon Ergas, Oren (2015) Special Issue: Philosophy East/West: Exploring the Intersections between Educational and Contemplative Practices. Oxford: Journal of Philosophy of Education. [DOI]
    2014 Morwenna Griffiths, Marit Honeid, Sharon Todd, Chris Winter, ed. (2014) Special Issue: Re-imagining Educational Relationships: Ethics, Politics, Practices. Oxford: Wiley.
    2014 Sharon Todd (2014) Special Issue, Passion, Commitment and Justice in Education, Ethics in Education (9) 1.
    2009 Sharon Todd (2009) Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism. : Paradigm Publishers.
    2003 Sharon Todd (2003) Special Issue, Emmanuel Levinas and Education, Studies in Philosophy and Education, 22 (1).
    2003 Sharon Todd (2003) Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis and Ethical Possibilities in Education. : State University of New York Press.
    1998 Alice Pitt, Judith Robertson and Sharon Todd (1998) Special Issue, Psychoanalysis and Education, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.
    1997 Sharon Todd (1997) Learning Desire: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Culture and the Unsaid. : Routledge.

    Book Chapter

    Year Publication
    2020 Todd, S (2020) 'Changing Cultures: Relationship and Sensibility in Education' In: Ethical Education: Toward an Ecology of Human Development. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [DOI]
    2020 Todd, S. (2020) 'Afterword; Looking Back, Moving Forward' In: Exploring Self: Expanding Toward Teaching, Teacher Education and Practitioner Research. on-line : Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-368720200000034016
    2015 Griffiths, M; Hoveid, MH; Todd, S; Winter, C (2015) 'Re-Imagining Relationships in Education Ethics, Politics and Practices Introduction' In: RE-IMAGINING RELATIONSHIPS IN EDUCATION: ETHICS, POLITICS AND PRACTICES. OXFORD : BLACKWELL SCIENCE PUBL.
    2014 Todd, S. (2014) 'Learning from and Living with Life's Rough Threads' In: Leaders in Philosophy of Education. Rotterdam : Sense Publishers.
    2014 Todd, S. (2014) 'Pedagogy as Transformative Event: Becoming Singularly Present in Context' In: Kenneth Wain: My Teaching, My Philosophy - A Lifelong Engagement with Education. New York : Peter Lang.
    2014 Todd S. (2014) 'Between Body and Spirit: The Liminality of Pedagogical Relationships' In: Re-Imagining Relationships in Education: Ethics, Politics and Practices. [DOI]
    2012 Todd, S. (2012) 'Going to the Heart of the Matter' In: Making Sense in Education: Fifteen Contemporary Educational Theorists in Their Own Words. Dordrecht : Springer.
    2009 Todd, S. (2009) ''She's not One of Us': Muslim Girls, Schooling and the Redefinition of Nation' In: Your Heritage and Mine: Teaching in a Multi-religious Classroom. Stockholm : Swedish Science Press.
    2008 Todd, S. (2008) 'Welcoming and Difficult Learning: Reading Levinas with Education' In: Levinas and Education. London : Routledge.
    2007 Todd, S. (2007) 'Ambiguities of Cosmopolitanism: Difference, Gender and the Right to Education' In: Education in the Era of Globalization. Dordrecht : Springer.

    Edited Book

    Year Publication
    2015 Sharon Todd; Oren Ergas (Ed.). (2015) Philosophy East/West: Exploring Intersections between Contemplative and Educational Practices. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, [DOI]
    2014 Griffiths M.;Hoveid M.;Todd S.;Winter C (Ed.). (2014) Re-Imagining Relationships in Education: Ethics, Politics and Practices. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, [DOI]

    Editorial

    Year Publication
    2021 Todd S.; Hoveid M.H.; Langmann E. (2021) Educating the Senses: Explorations in Aesthetics, Embodiment and Sensory Pedagogy. [Editorial] [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Todd, S; Jones, R; O' Donnell, A (2016) Shifting education's philosophical imaginaries: relations, affects, bodies, materialities. ABINGDON: [Editorial] [DOI]
    2014 Griffiths M.; Hoveid M.; Todd S.; Winter C. (2014) Introduction. [Editorial]
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