Meira Levinson is an American political philosopher who is Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the

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. A 2014

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, she is author of '' The Demands of Liberal Education'' (1999) and '' No Citizen Left Behind'' (2012), as well as co-editor of '' Making Civics Count'' (2012) and '' Dilemmas of Educational Ethics'' (2016).

Biography

Meira Levinson was born to legal scholar

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and children's writer Cynthia Levinson. She obtained her BA in Philosophy from

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in 1992 and PhD at

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in 1997; her doctoral dissertation was titled ''Autonomy, Schooling, and the Reconstruction of the Liberal Educational Ideal''. Levinson originally worked as a middle school teacher at T. Walden Middle School in Atlanta and John W. McCormack Middle School in Boston. In 2007, she became an assistant professor of education at the

(HGSE), before being promoted to associate professor in 2011 and to full professor in 2015. In 2021, she became the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at HGSE. Levinson works in political philosophy, particularly "the intersection of educational ethics, civic education, youth empowerment, and racial justice". She won a 2013

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Critics' Choice Award, the 2013

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Book Award and 2013 Michael Harrington Book Award for '' No Citizen Left Behind''. In 2014, she was awarded a

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in Education. She and Jacob Fay won the 2020

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SIG Outstanding Book Award in Moral Development and Education for their book ''Democratic Discord in Schools''. Other books she has co-editor or authored include '' The Demands of Liberal Education'' (1999), '' Making Civics Count'' (2012), and '' Dilemmas of Educational Ethics'' (2016). She became part of the editorial board for '' Theory and Research in Education'' in 2006.

Bibliography

*'' The Demands of Liberal Education'' (1999) *(ed. with David E. Campbell and

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) '' Making Civics Count'' (2012) *'' No Citizen Left Behind'' (2012) *(ed. with Jacob Fay) '' Dilemmas of Educational Ethics'' (2016) *(with Jacob Fay) ''Democratic Discord in Schools'' (2019) *(with Jeremy T. Murphy) ''Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education'' (2023) *(ed. with Tatiana Geron, Sara O'Brien, and Ellis Reid) ''Civic Contestation in Global Education'' (2024) *(ed. with Tatiana Geron, Sara O'Brien, and Ellis Reid) ''Educational Equity in a Global Context'' (2024)

References

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