Meira Levinson

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Meira Levinson
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Levinson in 2023
OccupationPhilosopher
Employer Harvard Graduate School of Education
Father Sanford Levinson
Awards Guggenheim Fellow (2014)
Academic background
Alma mater
Thesis Autonomy, Schooling, and the Reconstruction of the Liberal Educational Ideal (1996)

Meira Levinson is an American political philosopher who is Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. A 2014 Guggenheim Fellow, 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).

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Biography

Meira Levinson was born to legal scholar Sanford Levinson and children's writer Cynthia Levinson. [1] She obtained her BA in Philosophy from Yale University in 1992 and PhD at Nuffield College, Oxford in 1997; [2] her doctoral dissertation was titled Autonomy, Schooling, and the Reconstruction of the Liberal Educational Ideal. [3]

Levinson originally worked as a middle school teacher at T. Walden Middle School in Atlanta and John W. McCormack Middle School in Boston. [2] In 2007, she became an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), before being promoted to associate professor in 2011 and to full professor in 2015. [2] In 2021, she became the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at HGSE. [4]

Levinson works in political philosophy, particularly "the intersection of educational ethics, civic education, youth empowerment, and racial justice". [5] She won a 2013 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award, the 2013 North American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award and 2013 Michael Harrington Book Award for No Citizen Left Behind . [6] [7] [8] In 2014, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Education. [9] She and Jacob Fay won the 2020 American Educational Research Association SIG Outstanding Book Award in Moral Development and Education for their book Democratic Discord in Schools. [10] 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). [5] She became part of the editorial board for Theory and Research in Education in 2006. [5]

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  1. ↑ "Sanford V. Levinson". Harvard Law School. Archived from the original on June 27, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 "Meira Levinson" (PDF). Harvard Graduate School of Education. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  3. ↑ Levinson, Meira (1996). Autonomy, schooling, and the reconstruction of the liberal educational ideal (PhD thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC   43089969.
  4. ↑ "Meira Levinson Appointed the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society". Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics. December 13, 2021. Archived from the original on February 8, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  5. 1 2 3 "Meira Levinson". Harvard Graduate School of Education. Archived from the original on May 30, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  6. ↑ "Critics' Choice Book Awards". American Educational Studies Association. Archived from the original on February 20, 2020. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  7. ↑ "NASSP Book Award". North American Society for Social Philosophy. Archived from the original on January 27, 2024. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Section 27". American Political Science Association. Archived from the original on December 26, 2024. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Meira Levinson". Guggenheim Fellowships. Archived from the original on April 17, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  10. ↑ "SIG - Moral Development and Education". American Educational Research Association. Archived from the original on June 20, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  11. ↑ Battistoni, Richard M. (2013). "Should Political Scientists Care about Civic Education?". Perspectives on Politics. 11 (4): 1135–1138. ISSN   1537-5927. JSTOR   43280935.
  12. ↑ Feezell, Jessica (April 1, 2013). "Review of Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation". Journal of Political Science Education. 9 (2): 249–250. doi:10.1080/15512169.2013.771013. ISSN   1551-2169.
  13. ↑ Pace, Judith (October 8, 2013). "An Ambitious Agenda for a Big Problem. A Book Review of Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation". Democracy & Education. 21 (2). Archived from the original on November 8, 2024. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  14. ↑ Amsden, Brian Scott (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Rhetoric and Public Affairs. 16 (3): 603–607. doi:10.14321/rhetpublaffa.16.3.0603. ISSN   1094-8392.
  15. ↑ Ehrlich, Thomas (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Perspectives on Politics. 11 (1): 323–325. ISSN   1537-5927.
  16. ↑ Marri, Anand R. (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Political Science Quarterly. 128 (4): 776–777. ISSN   0032-3195. JSTOR   43828417.
  17. ↑ Stall, Susan (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Contemporary Sociology. 42 (6): 858–859. ISSN   0094-3061.
  18. ↑ Wong, Kenneth K. (2013). "Review of No Citizen Left Behind". Political Science Quarterly. 128 (2): 346–347. ISSN   0032-3195. JSTOR   23563312.
  19. ↑ Boyte, Harry C. (2017). "An Education Movement for Democracy". The Good Society. 25 (2–3): 332–340. doi:10.5325/goodsociety.25.2-3.0332. ISSN   1089-0017.
  20. ↑ Robinson, Shannon (March 1, 2017). "Book review: Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay (eds), Dilemmas of Educational Ethics: Cases and Commentaries" . Theory and Research in Education. 15 (1): 103–104. doi:10.1177/1477878517699324. ISSN   1477-8785.
  21. ↑ Taylor, Ashley (November 1, 2020). "Book review: Meira Levinson and Jacob Fay (eds), Democratic Discord in Schools: Cases and Commentaries in Educational Ethics". Theory and Research in Education. 18 (3): 369–370. doi:10.1177/1477878520985997. ISSN   1477-8785.
  22. ↑ Barnett, Ernest. "Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education" (PDF). Teachers College Record. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  23. ↑ "Civic Contestation in Global Education: Cases and Conversations in Educational Ethics". Bloomsbury. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
  24. ↑ "Educational Equity in a Global Context: Cases and Conversations in Educational Ethics". Bloomsbury. Archived from the original on June 15, 2025. Retrieved July 7, 2025.
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