Jo Haire is a Specialist Philosophy Teacher with The Philosophy Foundation, an educational charity https://www.philosophy-foundation.org/. She facilitates philosophical discussions with students of all ages which introduces them to the power and wonder of ideas and supports their learning across the curriculum. Last year Jo ran philosophy sessions for young people at the ‘How The Light Gets In’ festival at Hay-on-Wye, where the discussions focussed on what it means to be free, in an adaptation of Locke’s thought experiment, ‘the voluntary prisoner’, and considered if the meaning of ‘things in themselves’ can change. She is currently coaching sixth form students at Chesham Grammar for the Ethics Cup, run by St Andrews University Centre for Ethics. This is a tournament in which teams of high school students match wits with each other discussing ethical issues of public concern https://ethicscup.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
She is also studying MA Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she is researching the embodied nature of concept formation in children’s learning. She recently gave a lecture on her work on abstract concepts and interoception to the Systemic Modelling and Applications Group at The Centre Leo Apostle, The Vriej Universiteit Brussel.
Jo was previously a lecturer in architectural history and theory at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL and a lecturer in the theory of visual culture on MA Public Art at The University of the Arts London.
Events
-
What do we and should we value?
- February 19, 2025