2014Policy Futures in EducationOpen access

Criticism and the Ethics of Negative Reviews

Michael A. Peters

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This paper is an attempt to work through my own angst at a negative review of my Education, Philosophy and Politics, reviewed recently by Ian Stronach for the British Educational Research Journal, and to provide a therapeutic reading of the ethics of negative reviews. What of ‘shots in the dark’ and should there be a right of reply?

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This paper is an attempt to work through my own angst at a negative review of my Education, Philosophy and Politics, reviewed recently by Ian Stronach for the British Educational Research Journal, and to provide a therapeutic reading of the ethics of negative reviews. What of ‘shots in the dark’ and should there be a right of reply?

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This paper is an attempt to work through my own angst at a negative review of my Education, Philosophy and Politics, reviewed recently by Ian Stronach for the British Educational Research Journal, and to provide a therapeutic reading of the ethics of negative reviews. What of ‘shots in the dark’ and should there be a right of reply?

Key concepts: Criticism, Reading (process), Politics, Sociology, Critical reading, Epistemology, Psychoanalysis, Social science

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