Meira Levinson
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| Occupation | Philosopher |
| Employer | Harvard Graduate School of Education |
| Father | Sanford Levinson |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellow (2014) |
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| Thesis | Autonomy, Schooling, and the Reconstruction of the Liberal Educational Ideal (1996) |
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Meira Levinson is an American political philosopher who is Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, she is author of The Demands of Liberal Education (1999) and No Citizen Left Behind (2012), as well as co-editor of Making Civics Count (2012) and Dilemmas of Educational Ethics (2016).
Biography
[edit]Meira Levinson was born to legal scholar Sanford Levinson and children's writer Cynthia Levinson.[1] She obtained her BA in Philosophy from Yale University in 1992 and PhD at Nuffield College, Oxford in 1997;[2] her doctoral dissertation was titled Autonomy, Schooling, and the Reconstruction of the Liberal Educational Ideal.[3]
Levinson originally worked as a middle school teacher at T. Walden Middle School in Atlanta and John W. McCormack Middle School in Boston.[2] In 2007, she became an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), before being promoted to associate professor in 2011 and to full professor in 2015.[2] In 2021, she became the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at HGSE.[4]
Levinson works in political philosophy, particularly "the intersection of educational ethics, civic education, youth empowerment, and racial justice".[5] She won a 2013 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, the 2013 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award and 2013 Michael Harrington Book Award for No Citizen Left Behind.[6][7][8] In 2014, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Education.[9] She and Jacob Fay won the 2020 American Educational Research Association SIG Outstanding Book Award in Moral Development and Education for their book Democratic Discord in Schools.[10] Other books she has co-editor or authored include The Demands of Liberal Education (1999), Making Civics Count (2012), and Dilemmas of Educational Ethics (2016).[5] She became part of the editorial board for Theory and Research in Education in 2006.[5]
Bibliography
[edit]- The Demands of Liberal Education (1999)
- (ed. with David E. Campbell and Frederick M. Hess) Making Civics Count (2012)[11][12][13]
- No Citizen Left Behind (2012)[14][15][16][17][18]
- (ed. with Jacob Fay) Dilemmas of Educational Ethics (2016)[19][20]
- (with Jacob Fay) Democratic Discord in Schools (2019)[21]
- (with Jeremy T. Murphy) Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education (2023)[22]
- (ed. with Tatiana Geron, Sara O'Brien, and Ellis Reid) Civic Contestation in Global Education (2024)[23]
- (ed. with Tatiana Geron, Sara O'Brien, and Ellis Reid) Educational Equity in a Global Context (2024)[24]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sanford V. Levinson". Harvard Law School. Archived from the original on June 27, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ a b c "Meira Levinson" (PDF). Harvard Graduate School of Education. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ Levinson, Meira (1996). Autonomy, schooling, and the reconstruction of the liberal educational ideal (PhD thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 43089969.
- ^ "Meira Levinson Appointed the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society". Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. December 13, 2021. Archived from the original on February 8, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ a b c "Meira Levinson". Harvard Graduate School of Education. Archived from the original on May 30, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ "Critics' Choice Book Awards". American Educational Studies Association. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ "NASSP Book Award". North American Society for Social Philosophy. Archived from the original on January 27, 2024. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ "Section 27". American Political Science Association. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ "Meira Levinson". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on April 17, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ "SIG - Moral Development and Education". American Educational Research Association. Archived from the original on June 20, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ Battistoni, Richard M. (2013). "Should Political Scientists Care about Civic Education?". Perspectives on Politics. 11 (4): 1135–1138. ISSN 1537-5927. JSTOR 43280935.
- ^ Feezell, Jessica (April 1, 2013). "Review of Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation". Journal of Political Science Education. 9 (2): 249–250. doi:10.1080/15512169.2013.771013. ISSN 1551-2169.
- ^ Pace, Judith (October 8, 2013). "An Ambitious Agenda for a Big Problem. A Book Review of Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation". Democracy & Education. 21 (2). Archived from the original on November 8, 2024. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ Amsden, Brian Scott (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 16 (3): 603–607. doi:10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.3.0603. ISSN 1094-8392.
- ^ Ehrlich, Thomas (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Perspectives on Politics. 11 (1): 323–325. ISSN 1537-5927.
- ^ Marri, Anand R. (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Political Science Quarterly. 128 (4): 776–777. ISSN 0032-3195. JSTOR 43828417.
- ^ Stall, Susan (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Contemporary Sociology. 42 (6): 858–859. ISSN 0094-3061.
- ^ Wong, Kenneth K. (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Political Science Quarterly. 128 (2): 346–347. ISSN 0032-3195. JSTOR 23563312.
- ^ Boyte, Harry C. (2017). "An Education Movement for Democracy". The Good Society. 25 (2–3): 332–340. doi:10.5325/goodsociety.25.2-3.0332. ISSN 1089-0017.
- ^ Robinson, Shannon (March 1, 2017). "Book review: Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay (eds), Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries". Theory and Research in Education. 15 (1): 103–104. doi:10.1177/1477878517699324. ISSN 1477-8785.
- ^ Taylor, Ashley (November 1, 2020). "Book review: Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay (eds), Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics". Theory and Research in Education. 18 (3): 369–370. doi:10.1177/1477878520985997. ISSN 1477-8785.
- ^ Barnett, Ernest. "Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education" (PDF). Teachers College Record. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ "Civic Contestation in Global Education: Cases and Conversations in Educational Ethics". Bloomsbury. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
- ^ "Educational Equity in a Global Context: Cases and Conversations in Educational Ethics". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on June 15, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
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