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Staff Profile

Professor David Rose

Professor of Social Ethics

Background

David Edward Rose is Professor of Social Ethics and a teacher and scholar of philosophy who is interested in transformative learning practices and the development of context-based learning.


Context-based learning is a pedagogy which defines all learners as tyro-researchers and asserts the role of education as a response to the personal needs of the individual learner and society. Students as co-producers of knowledge and encouraged to engage with cultural and material reality in critical ways. These projects allow students to take control of their own direction, affirm the value of traditional academic disciplines, determine learning through the coincidence of the interests of student, teacher and institution and offer the possibility of a newly constructed “universal” education equal to but different from Newman’s idea of the university.


You can peruse a database of abstracts of students' work from over the years here.


David Rose was awarded his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Glasgow with a dissertation on Hegel's conception of freedom. Hr received an MA in Continental Philosophy from the University of Warwick and read Literature and Philosophy (Joint) for his BA(Hons) at the University of East Anglia.



Teaching

David Rose is Senior Fellow of the HEA and teaches courses on the history of philosophy as well as ethics and political philosophy. He is very interested in developing ideas about the impact of technology on self-understanding and the developments of humanism. He is a leading exponent of context-based learning and innovative pedagogies in philosophical learning. One such pedagogy, Guerrilla Learning, which attempts to develop interdisciplinary learning within a conceptual framework, has emerged from the context-based pedagogy and these experiments and laboratories are recorded on the blog.

Research

David Rose’s major research interests are in social ethics, Hegelian thought and rational hermeneutics. The main themes of his work are grounded in readings in the history of ideas, especially the writings of Hegel and Vico, and more generally in counter-enlightenment ethical thought. He has published various articles on posthumanism, the history of European thought, ethics and political philosophy as well as an introduction to Hegel's social philosophy and monographs on the concept of free-will, the ethics of pornography and posthumanism. Currently, the dominant themes of his thinking concern the human being's self-understanding and its relation to culture in its broadest sense, including education, technology and network systems. 


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Publications