Joseph Dunne is Senior Lecturer in Education at St Patrick’s College, Dublin City University, where he co-ordinates the Human Development programme. He is the author of
Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgement and the Lure of Technique (1997) and the co-editor of
Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy, (2000) and
Childhood and its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures (2002).
Pádraig Hogan is Senior Lecturer in Education at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He is a former President of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland and Assistant Editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education. He is the author of The Custody and Courtship of Experience: Western Education in Philosophical Perspective (1995), and the editor of Partnership and the Benefits of Learning (1995) and Willingly to School? (1987).