Dr Simon Boxley

Biography

Dr Simon Boxley is Senior Lecturer in Education and Head of the Cluster for Climate Change Action and Education. Simon's main areas of expertise are the philosophy of education, particularly Marxist, ecosocialist and ecosophical perspectives, education policy and practice, particularly relating to climate change, and the study of 'race' and ethnicity, particularly in the United Kingdom. 

Publications

Book 

• Boxley, S. (2017) Schooling and Value: Marxist Essays in Education, 2006-2016. Brighton: Institute for Education Policy Studies

Book chapters

• Boxley, S. (2021) Green Marxism. In Maisuria (Ed.) Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education. Leiden: Brill, pp 322-340.
• Boxley, S., Krishnamuthy, G. & Ridgeway, A. (2016) Learning Care for the Earth with Krishnamurti, in Winograd, K. (Ed) Environmental Education in Times of Crisis: Children as Agents of Change in Nature and in Community, London: Routledge
• Boxley, S., Dewey, V., Clarke, H., & Witt, S. (2014) Talking with trolls: a creative and critical engagement with students’ nature-naiveté, in Winograd, K. (Ed.) Critical Literacy, London: Routledge
• Boxley, S. (2014) Critical Education Studies, in Hill, D. (Ed.) Critical Education, Critical Pedagogies, Marxist Education, London: Routledge
• Boxley, S. & Hill, D. (2008) Critical Education for Economic, Social and Environmental Justice in Hill, D. (Ed) Contesting neoliberal education: Public resistance and collective advance. London: Routledge 

Peer-reviewed articles in academic journals

• Boxley, S. (forthcoming) Independence, Creativity, Mastery: Juche as Ideology and Theory in Education.
• Boxley, S. (2025) From Ecopedagogy to Eco-Leninist Education. Educational Futures, 16(1)
• Boxley, S. (2024) Climate lessons from the cold edge: rethinking the university as an ethical ecology, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. http://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-12-2023-0606
• Boxley, S. (2024) Thinking the Revolution with Derek Ford. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 22 (1) http://www.jceps.com/archives/16187 ISSN 1740-2743
• Boxley, S. (2022) Striking in the City, Making Love in the Fields: Unsnarling the Wild Pedagogies of Earth Activism. Coreopsis: Journal of Myth and Theatre 10 (1), 1- 23. http://societyforritualarts.com/coreopsis/spring-2022-issue/striking-in-the-city-making-love-in-the-fields/ ISSN 2333-0627
• Boxley, S. (2022) ESC in the Anthropocene: Education for Sustainability and Communism. Critical Education 13 (1), 51-69 http://doi.org/10.14288/ce.v13i1
• Boxley, S. (2019) Red Biocentrism for the Anthropocene. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 35(3). 183-197. http://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2019.18
• Boxley, S. (2019) Learning Nature in Schools: Benjamin contra Dietzgen on Nature's 'Free Gifts'. Policy Futures in Education 17 (3). 339-354 http://doi.org/10.1177/1478210318824248
• Boxley, S. (2017) "Our Teachers and the Limits of Cognition": Dietzgen and the Challenge of McLaren's Epistemology. Policy Futures in Education 15(5). 564-573 http://doi.org/10.1177/1478210317707847
• Boxley, S. (2017) The Revolution Now: Krishnamurti Pedagogy and the Necessity for Environmental Change, Journal of Krishnamurti Schools 21. 94-99
• Boxley, S. (2016) Too Much, Much Too Young: The Meaning of the school testing obsession, International Socialism 150. 145-154
• Boxley, S. (2014) Lenin's Lessons on Schooling for the Left in the UK, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 12 (3) http://www.jceps.com/archives/2300
• Hill, D. and Boxley, S. (2007) Critical teacher education for economic, environmental and social justice: a Marxist analysis and manifesto. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 5 (2) http://www.jceps.com/archives/547
• Boxley, S. (2003) Performativity and Capital in Schools. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies 1 (1) http://www.jceps.com/archives/547

Reports / working papers

• Knight, S., McQuaid, S., Bonner, C., Boxley, S., Charlton-Perez, A., Reed, A., Dunn, S., Duffy, S., de Pomerai, M., Guilyardi, E., Hardisty, M., Lord, M., Furneaux, P., Malone, J., Nowicka, M., Shakespearre, K., and Soul, M. (2024) Climate Education in the Curriculum From Early Years to Further Education in England. http://static.reading.ac.uk/content/PDFs/files/Planet/climate-education-in-curriculum.pdf
• Thew, H., Graves, C., Reay, D., Smith, S., Petersen, K., Bomberg, E., Boxley, S., Causley, J., Congreve, A., Cross, I., Dunk, R., Dunlop, L., Facer, K., Gamage, K. A. A., Greenhalgh, C., Greig, A., Kiamba, L., Kinakh, V., Kioupi, V., Lee, M., Klapper, R., Kurul, E., Marshall-Cook, J., McGivern, A., Mörk, J., Nijman, V., O’Brien, J., Preist, C., Price, E., Samangooei, M., Schrodt, F., Sharmina, M., Toney, J., Walsh, C., Walsh, T., Wood, R. Wood, P., and Worsfold, N.T. (2021). Mainstreaming climate education in Higher Education Institutions. COP26 Universities Network Working Paper. http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_814664_smxx.pdf

Book reviews

• Boxley, S. (2024) Freire and environmentalism: Ecopedagogy by Greg Willian Misiaszek, 2023. Journal of Philosophy of Education 

Conference papers

• Boxley, S. (2024) Ecoleninism as radical change and innovation in education. The International Education Studies Association 19^th Annual Conference, 2024: Education as radical change and innovation. University of Winchester 24-25/6/2024
• Boxley, S. (2022) The fastest warming place on earth: what can UK HEIs learn about climate change education from the experience of HE in the High Arctic town of Longyearbyen? Climate Change: the contribution of UK Universities to addressing Climate Change from a sustainability perspective. UK Consortium on Sustainability Research Symposium. Manchester Metropolitan university 16/9/22
• Boxley. S. (2012) Speeding the Unhurried Pathway, Unhurried Pathways: Early Childhood Action Conference, University of Winchester, October 27. 
• Boxley, S. (2012) Lenin on the Class Character of Education, International Conference on Lenin’s Thought in the Twenty First Century: Its Interpretation and Value, University of Wuhan, China, October 20-22. Published in Conference Proceedings in English and Chinese by the Wuhan University Press (2008)
• Red, Black & Green: Joseph Dietzgen's Philosophy Across the Divide. Anarchist Studies Network International Conference http://www.anarchist-studies-network.org.uk/documents/Conference%20Papers/Simon%20Boxley.doc

• Boxley, S. (2019) Deeper than oil: climate change as an ideological issue. Workshop at Education for the Future: Climate Emergency Conference of the National Education Union. Regents High School, Camden, London, 12/10/19

• Boxley, S. (2018) One hundred summers since October: teaching Marxisms in Education Studies today. Paper presented at VIII International Conference on Critical Education, UEL, 24-29/7/18

• Boxley, S. (2015) The Revolution Now, paper presented at The Future of Brockwood Conference, Brockwood Park School, Hampshire, 8/3/15

• House, R. & Boxley, S. (2014) Too Much Too Young: how can we resist the theft of early childhood, paper presented at Marxism 2014, Institute of Education, London, 11/7/14
• Boxley, S. (2014), Transformative Education in Nature: Reanimating Places. Paper presented at Mind, Society and Transformative Education Conference, Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy, Baku, 4/1/14
• Co-organizer of the following conferences
• Another Learning is Possible, University of Winchester and Brockwood Park School, 2015 http://winchesterconferences.com/
• Malaguzzi and Contemporary Early Years Alternatives: Lessons from Iceland and Reggio Emilia, University of Winchester, 2013 www.winchester.ac.uk/malaguzzi  
• Race, 10.11.12, University of Winchester, 2012, http://raceconference.uni.me/ 
• Transition Universities, University of Winchester, 2011, http://www.crisis-forum.org.uk