Liz Jackson (educationalist)

Liz Jackson
Jackson in 2019
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor
AwardsAmerican Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Book Award 2020, 2021, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Book Award, Fellow of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
Education
EducationPortland State University (BA)
University of Cambridge (MPhil)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (PhD)
Doctoral advisorNicholas Burbules
Philosophical work
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolCombines approaches from analytic and continental philosophy
Main interestsPhilosophy of education, ethics
Websitewww.lizjackson.org

Liz Jackson is an American scholar of the philosophy of education and educational theory. She is currently a Professor and Head of the Department of International Education in the Faculty of Education and Human Development at the Education University of Hong Kong. Previously she was associate professor at the University of Hong Kong, where she also served as the Director of the Master of Education Program and the Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC). She is also a Fellow and Past President (2018-2020) of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA).