John Wall is an American educator and theoretical

ethicist Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena. Also called moral philosophy, it investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied ethics ...

who teaches at Rutgers University Camden. He is director of the Childism Institute and co-director of the Children's Voting Colloquium.

Research

Wall's research focuses on "the groundworks of moral life, particularly their relations to language, power, and childhood" and theoretical work where he argues that "ethical life is fundamentally creative", as well as for his concept of

childism Childism can refer either to advocacy for empowering children as a subjugated group or to prejudice and/or discrimination against children or childlike qualities. It can operate thus both as a positive term for a movement, like the term feminism, as ...

, or the empowerment of children by transforming norms.

Career

Wall was born in 1965 in Leeds, United Kingdom and moved to the United States as a teenager. He obtained a BA, MA, and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and taught for one year at DePaul University before taking up a permanent position at Rutgers University. At Rutgers University, Wall teaches in the departments of

philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

, religion, and

childhood studies Childhood studies or children's studies (CS) is a multidisciplinary field that seeks to understand the experience of childhood, both historically and in the contemporary world. CS views childhood as a complex social phenomenon with an emphasis on ...

. He is the founding director of the Childism Institute and is the co-founder of the Children’s Voting Colloquium. In 2006 Wall assisted in the creation of a childhood studies doctoral program at Rutgers. He was also chair of the Childhood Studies and Religion Group at the American Academy of Religion.

Bibliography

Books

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Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought
' (2002, co-editor, Routledge) *
Marriage, Health, and the Professions
' (2002, co-editor, Eerdmans) *
Moral Creativity: Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility
' (2005, Oxford University Press) *
Ethics in Light of Childhood
' (2010, Georgetown University Press) *
Children and Armed Conflict
' (2011, co-editor, Palgrave Macmillan) *
Children’s Rights: Today’s Global Challenge
' (2017, Rowman & Littlefield) *
Give Children the Vote: On Democratizing Democracy
' (2022, Bloomsbury Academic) *
Exploring Children's Suffrage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ageless Voting
' (2022, editor, Palgrave Macmillan) *
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Theories in Childhood Studies
' (2023, co-editor, Bloomsbury Academic)

Journal articles

* * *Wall, John (2014)
“Democratizing Democracy: The Road from Women’s to Children’s Suffrage”
''International Journal of Human Rights'', Special Issue, edited by Sonja Grover (2014) 18.6: 646–659. * *Wall, John (2019)
“Theorizing Children’s Global Citizenship: Reconstructionism and the Politics of Deep Interdependence”
''Global Studies of Childhood'' (March 2019) 9(1):5-17. *Wall, John and Jonathan Josefsson (2020)
“Empowered Inclusion: Theorizing Global Justice for Children and Youth”
''Globalizations'', 2020:1-19. DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1736853.

References

External links

Childism Institute

Children's Voting Colloquium
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