This page sets out Michelle Sowey’s publications in mainstream media, academic literature, and online platforms. It includes published opinion pieces, peer-reviewed journal articles, invited book reviews, blog posts and interviews, and short films.

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MAINSTREAM AND LITERARY MEDIA

	2024: Commissioned essay: Renewing democracy with collaborative reasoning. Meanjin, June 2024 (paywalled; view pre-print).
	2013: Opinion piece: Teaching philosophy to children? It’s a great idea. The Guardian, 21 November 2013.

ACADEMIC LITERATURE

Invited publications:

	2021: Unveiling and packaging: A model for presenting philosophy in schools. Human Affairs, 31(4), October 2021. (Peer reviewed.)
	2020: Against directive teaching in the moral Community of Inquiry: A response to Michael Hand (co-authored with Grace Lockrobin): Journal of Philosophy in Schools, 7(2), December 2020. (Peer reviewed.)
	2018: Strengthening dialogic argument: What teachers can learn from authentic examples of student dialogue. Journal of Philosophy in Schools, 5(2), November 2018. (Peer reviewed.)
	2011: Global Poverty. The Australian Collaboration: A consortium of national community organisations.

Essays and literature reviews:

	2025: Maintenance of Chiac in the face of competing pressures (preprint). This essay explores linguistic pressures on Chiac, a French-English mixed language that arose in the 1960s among youth in the Moncton area of New Brunswick, Canada. (Submitted to the University of New England as part of a unit of study on Applied Linguistics.)
	2024: How does collaborative reasoning prepare students to participate as ecological citizens in a deliberative democracy? A literature review. (Submitted to the University of New England in partial fulfilment of an academic credit application for the Master of Education unit ‘Researching Literacies in Education’, October 2024.)

INVITED BOOK REVIEWS

	2014: Once Upon an If: The storythinking handbook by Peter Worley. The Philosophy Club blog, 12 September 2014.
	2014: Provocations: Philosophy for Secondary School by David Birch. Crown House Publishing website, 14 May 2014.
	2014: An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi. Metapsychology Online Reviews, 18(9), February 2014.

BLOG POSTS AND INTERVIEWS

	2013-present: 70+ occasional posts for The Philosophy Club blog on subjects including civic participation, digital citizenship, ethics, critical thinking, moral education, social impact, deliberative democracy, the climate crisis, the public good, youth voices and agency: www.ThePhilosophyClub.com.au
	2019-2021: A series of 11 short topical articles commenting on environmental policy and practice, published on Young Environmental Philosophers – Melbourne.
	2018: Guest blog post: The NAPLAN persuasive writing test subverts critical thinking. Pearls and Irritations public policy journal, 9 May 2018.
	2015: Interview: How to use philosophy as a cricket bat. Exordium E-Journal: the University of Queensland’s Student Philosophy Journal, Issue 1.
	2013: Guest blog post: Can you kill a goat by staring at it? A critical look at minimally invasive education. The Philosophy Foundation blog, 12 October 2013.

SHORT FILMS

	2025: Writer, editor and producer of Jacob Collier and MusicFX DJ: A case study, a video presentation prepared as part of a unit of postgraduate study on creativity and artificial intelligence. View the accompanying annotated transcript with academic references.
	2021: Series producer for Glimmerings, a series of 12 very short films concerning the search for meaning, the nature of inquiry, the value of reasoning, and the power of thoughtful dialogue in the face of institutional power.