MSc; D.Phil (Oxon)

Profile

Editor of the British Journal of Educational Studies. He has written widely on the relationship between theory and practice in education, particularly the links between communitarianism, social virtues, citizenship, religion and education.

Research Interests

His major research activities currently involve the aspirations and character formation of young people in deprived areas. He is Director of Citized – an organisation (funded by the TDA) in higher education promoting citizenship and is Director of a major research project on young people’s values and character dispositions (see Learning for Life –www.learningforlife.org.uk and Citized – www.citized.info). He was a member of the National Forum for Values in Education and the Community. He has participated in various consultations with QCA about values education, and was a member of the History Task Group of the National Curriculum Council to revise the National Curriculum, and has since been a member of a sub-group of the Citizenship Working Party as well as a member of groups on citizenship and personal and social education in the DCSF and in the Teacher Development Agency. 

Teaching and administration responsibilities

Director of Knowledge Transfer

Publications (selection)

Books: Single, Co-Authored and Edited:

Arthur, J., (2009) (ed.) A Reader in Educational Studies, Routledge, London

Arthur, J., (2009) (ed.) Handbook in Educational Studies , Routledge, London

Arthur, J., (2008) (ed.) International Handbook in Citizenship and Democracy, Sage, London.

Chapters in Books:

Arthur, J., (2009) New Directions in Character and Values Education in the UK, in Terrence Lovat, (ed.) Handbook on Values Education and Student Well-Being, Springer, Chicago.

Arthur, J., (2009) The Secularisation of European Citizenship, in Liam Gearon (ed.) International Handbook of Inter-Religious Education, Springer, Chicago.

Arthur, J., (2008) A History of Character Education in Britain and the USA, in Larry Nucci, (ed.) International Handbook of Moral and Character Education, Routledge, Chicago.