On this page, you’ll find a list of some of my scholarly articles. I’ve provided links to the final published version, but since those often require a subscription, I’ve included links to the full text of the pre-publication version in some cases.
- “Rousseau and Democratic Education,” The Cambridge Handbook of Democratic Education. Full text
- “Plato, the Poets, and the Philosophical Turn in the Relationship Between Teaching, Learning, and Suffering,” Studies in Philosophy and Education. Full Text
- “Socrates, Cadmus and the Case for Unphilosophical Parenting,” Philosophy of Education 2019.
- “The Optimist as Scholar and Teacher: An Appreciation of Robbie McClintock,” Introduction to the Festschrift in Educational Theory. Full Text.
- “Sparta Athens and the Surprising Roots of Common Schooling,” Philosophy of Education 2018.
- “The Present, Past, and Future of the Gardening Metaphor in Education,” Oxford Review of Education. Full text.
- “What is the Purpose of Education? Dewey’s challenge to his contemporaries,” Centennial Handbook on John Dewey’s Democracy and Education. Full Text
- “Pain and Education,” The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Pain. Full Text
- “The Use and Abuse of the History of Educational Philosophy,” Philosophy of Education 2016.
- “The Education of the Third Class in The Republic: Plato and the locus classicus of formative justice,” Teachers College Record. Full text
- “Dewey’s Ancestry, Dewey’s Legacy and the Aims of Education in Democracy and Education,” Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy.
- “Why did Socrates Deny that he was a Teacher? Locating Socrates among the new educators and the traditional education in Plato’s Apology of Socrates,” Educational Philosophy and Theory. Full Text
- “Helping by Hurting: The paradox of suffering in social justice education,” Theory and Research in Education. Full Text
- “The Happy and Suffering Student? Rousseau’s Emile and the path not taken in progressive educational thought,” Educational Theory. Full Text
- “Four Educators in Plato’s Theaetetus,” Journal of Philosophy of Education. Full Text
- “Faith-Based Schools and Common Schools in America: Reflections on the charge that faith-based schools are a threat to social cohesion,” (with Graham McDonough) Journal of Religious Education. Full Text
- “‘Chalepa Ta Kala,’ ‘Fine Things are Difficult’: Socrates’ insights into the psychology of teaching and learning,” Studies in Philosophy and Education. Full Text
- “The Midwife as Matchmaker: Socrates and Relational Pedagogy,” Philosophy of Education 2007.
- “From Grade School to Law School: Socrates’ Legacy in Education,” A Companion to Socrates. Full Text
- “The Disciplined Schooling of the Free Spirit: Educational Theory in Nietzsche’s Middle Period,” Philosophy of Education 2004.
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Avi I. Mintz 
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