The Future of Education: Reimagining Its Aims and Responsibilities

Jonathan Beale is a Research Affiliate at the Human Flourishing Program at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. He has previously held positions as Academic Visitor at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, Researcher-in-Residence at Eton College, and Fellow in Philosophy at Harvard. He has published articles on philosophy and education in leading academic journals and media outlets including the New York Times, and is co-editor of four books.

Christina Easton is Assistant Professor in Ethics of Non-Violence at the University of Birmingham, and previously was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Warwick. Her work has been published in journals including Philosophy, American Political Science Review, Theory and Research in Education, the Journal of Philosophy of Education, and the Journal of Applied Philosophy. Her monograph Teaching Values Whilst Respecting Difference will be published by Bloomsbury in 2026. She co-authored Critical Religious Education in Practice (Routledge, 2019), a book widely used by teachers of religious education. Before going into academic research, Christina taught philosophy and religious studies at secondary schools for eight years.