Dr John Vorhaus
BA, Ph.D
Director, Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, Dept. of Quantitative Social Science
Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning
Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London WC1H 0AL
tel: +44 (0)20 7911 6432
fax: +44 (0)20 7612 6880
email: j.vorhaus@ioe.ac.uk
Responsibilities
- Director, Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning
- Associate Director, Research, National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy
Research interests
- Theories of distributive justice in education
- Rights in education
- Theories of learning
- Learning difficulties and disabilities
- Social and emotional outcomes of learning
- Trajectories of psychological and academic development
Research
- Dependency and personal autonomy in the context of learning and teaching
- Learning theory: learning styles, thinking skills and theories of motivation.
- Conceptions of dignity, degradation and respect for persons in the context of Human Rights law
- Conceptions of citizenship as these apply to persons with profound and multiple learning difficulties and disabilities
Publications (selection)
Vorhaus, J., (2007), Disability, Dependency and Indebtedness, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 41 (1), 29-44
Vorhaus, J., (2006), Respecting Profoundly Disabled Learners, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 40 (3), 313-328.
Vorhaus, J., (2005), Citizenship, competence and profound disability, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 39 (3), 461-475.
Vorhaus, J., (2003), On Degradation. Part Two: Degrading Treatment and Punishment, Common Law World Review, 32 (1), 65 – 92.
Vorhaus, J., (2002), On Degradation. Part One: Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Common Law World Review, 31 (4), 374 – 399.
Vorhaus, J., (2002), Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order, Journal of Philosophy of Education, 36 (1), 119-129.
