Dr Simone Thornton
Lecturer in Philosophy
School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
+61 7 336 56348
Room E323, Forgan Smith Building (1)
Book Chapters
Thornton, Simone and Burgh, Gilbert (2019). Growing up with philosophy in Australia: philosophy as cultural discourse. Philosophical inquiry with children: the development of an inquiring society in Australia. (pp. 236-249) edited by Gilbert Burgh and Simone Thornton. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429431821-22
Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2019). The philosophical classroom: an Australian story. Philosophical inquiry with children: the development of an inquiring society in Australia. (pp. 1-5) edited by Gilbert Burgh and Simone Thornton. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429431821-1
Burgh,Gilbert, Thornton, Simone and Fynes-Clinton, Liz (2018). ‘Do not block the way of inquiry’: cultivating collective doubt through sustained deep reflective thinking. Parecidos de familia. Propuestas actuales en Filosofía para Niños [Family Resemblances: Current trends in philosophy for children]. (pp. 47-61) edited by Ellen Duthie, Félix García Moriyón and Rafael Robles Loro. Madrid: Anaya.
Thornton, Simone and Burgh, Gilbert (2017). Making peace education everyone’s business. Inclusion, diversity and intercultural dialogue in young people's philosophical inquiry. (pp. 55-65) edited by Ching-Ching Lin and Lavina Sequeira. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. doi: 10.1007/978-94-6351-065-3
Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2017). From Harry to Philosophy Park: the development of philosophy for children resources in Australia. The Routledge international handbook of philosophy for children. (pp. 163-170) edited by Maughn Rollins Gregory, Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315726625
Journal Articles
Thornton, Simone, Graham, Mary and Burgh, Gilbert (2019). Reflecting on place: environmental education as decolonisation. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 35 (3), 239-249. doi: 10.1017/aee.2019.31
Thornton, Simone (2018). The educational cost of philosophical suicide: what it means to be lucid. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51 (6), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2018.1493681
Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2016). Philosophy goes to school in Australia: A history 1982-2016. Journal of Philosophy in Schools, 3 (1), 59-83. doi: 10.21913/jps.v3i1.1300
Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2016). Lucid education: resisting resistance to inquiry. Oxford Review of Education, 42 (2), 165-177. doi: 10.1080/03054985.2016.1151410
Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2016). Inoculation against wonder: finding an antidote in Camus, pragmatism and the community of inquiry. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 48 (9), 884-898. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2015.1079516
Conference Papers
Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2016). Philosophy for children in Australia: then, now, and where to from here?. 45th Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Melbourne, Australia, 5-8 December 2015. PESA.
Burgh, Gilbert and Thornton, Simone (2015). Engagement as dialogue: Camus, pragmatism and constructivist pedagogy. Education as Philosophies of Engagement: 44th Annual Conference of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), Hamilton, New Zealand, 22-25 November 2014. Claremont, WA, Australia: Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.