Professor David Halpin

  • Qualifications and position:
    • BEd MEd PhD
    • Emeritus Professor of Education
    • Visiting Professor of Education, Bath Spa University
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication
  • Summary:
    • Although early retired, Professor Halpin continues to research and publish in the field of philosophy of pedagogy, specializing in the Utopian and Romantic roots of progressive forms of teaching and learning.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • What are schools for? A utopian incursion into education policy. Presented at the International Workshop, What are Schools For? Visions and Scenarios for the Future of Education & Schooling, held at the International Institute for the Study of Culture & Education, University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland, 22-24 October 2009

      Hope and educational leadership: the role of the utopian imagination. Presented at the conference, Leadership in a Learning Society, Beijing Normal University, November 2008

      Loving pedagogy and effective learning. Presented at the ESRC National Research Conference, Pupil Voice and Participation, University of Nottingham, May, 2006.

      Educational professionalism in an age of uncertainty. Presented at the International Symposium, Education Reform and Teachers, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, November 2005.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • USA and Australia - systems of school choice
 

Contact details

Contact details

  • Email:

  • Address:
  • Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication
    Institute of Education
    University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 785
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Halpin, D. (2010) 'National curriculum reform in China and England: origins, character and comparison', Frontiers of Education in China 5(2), 259-269.
  • Halpin, D. (2010) 'Heroism and pedagogy', Pedagogies 3 (3), tbc.
  • Halpin, D. (2009) 'Pedagogy and Romantic love', Pedagogy, Curriculum and Society 17 (1), 89-102.
  • Halpin, D. (2009) 'Hazlitt's learning: a real and negative education', The Hazlitt Review 2, 49-66.
  • Halpin, D. (2008) 'Pedagogy and the Romantic imagination', British Journal of Educational Studies 56(1), 59-75.
  • Halpin, D. (2007) 'Utopian spaces of 'robust hope': the architecture and nature of progressive learning environments', Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education 35(3), 243-255.
  • Halpin, D. (2007) Romanticism and Education: Love, Heroism and Imagination in Pedagogy. London: Continuum.
  • Halpin, D. (2006) 'Why a Romantic conception of education matters', Oxford Review of Education 32 (3), 325-346.
  • Halpin, D. (2006) 'Curriculum as utopian text' In A. Moore (ed.), Schooling, Society and Curriculum. London:RoutledgeFalmer.
  • Halpin, D. (2003) Hope and Education: The Role of the Utopian Imagination. London: Routledge/Falmer.