About the PES Outstanding Paper award

About the PES Legacy award

2024 Winners

2023 Winners

2024 Inaugural Legacy and Outstanding Paper awards

2024 Legacy Award Winner: Noah Khan

Photo, left to right: Photo of Legacy Award recipient, Noah Khan, and 2024 PES Program Chair, Amy Shuffelton

2024 Outstanding Paper Award Winner: Annie Schultz
(the Outstanding Paper Award is sponsored jointly by PES and Educational Theory)

Photo, left to right: Photo of 2024 PES Program Chair, Amy Shuffelton, Outstanding Paper award recipient Annie Schultz, and editor of Educational Theory, Nick Burbules

Finalists for this award: David Biesecker, Derek Gottlieb, and Yuya Takeda

Photo, left to right: 2023 PES Executive Director Amy Shuffelton, award recipient Liat Ariel, 2023 PES president Michele Moses, and 2023 PES Program Chair Terri Wilson

Outstanding Paper Award Winner: Bryan Warnick
(the Outstanding Paper Award is sponsored jointly by PES and Educational Theory)

PES Outstanding Paper Award (co-sponsored with Educational Theory)

Criteria: originality; quality of the argument or inquiry; scholarly significance; potential for development into a larger paper. NB. Since some of the nominees for the PES Outstanding Paper Award also may be papers that will be presented in a General Session, it is important to keep in mind that, for the PES Outstanding Paper Award, it is the quality of the paper as a written text that matters, not its potential to be an engaging conference session.

Eligibility: All full papers submitted to the annual conference are eligible for consideration. Graduate students can be nominated for both the PES Outstanding Paper Award and the PES Legacy Award, but cannot win both awards. If a graduate student wins the Outstanding Paper Award, they cannot also win the Legacy Award.

Nature of the award: The award comes with a $250 cash prize and an award certificate. The award recipient will also be listed on the Awards section of the PES website.

Publication of Outstanding Papers: The paper that receives the PES Outstanding Paper Award is published in Philosophy of Education. Additionally, the author will be given the opportunity, and will be encouraged, to expand the paper and have this expanded version published in Educational Theory (subject to review).

Nomination Process and Award Committee: The PES Program Chair nominates four (4) papers for the PES Outstanding Paper Award but does not participate in the award review itself. The PES Outstanding Paper Award Committee will comprise the Editor and one of the Associate Editors of Educational Theory (with the latter to be invited by the Editor), and one member of that year’s PES program committee, invited by the PES Program Chair.

Conflicts of Interest: The PES Program Chair and members of the award committee are not eligible for nomination. Prior to reviewing the papers, members of the PES Outstanding Paper Award Committee will review the author names of the shortlisted papers. If they have a conflict of interest, they will recuse themselves from the committee. A member has a conflict of interest if they:

• have served or are serving as a Master’s or Doctoral supervisor or co-supervisor for the nominated author;
• have been (co-)supervised by the nominated author;
• are the spouse or direct family member (child, parent, or sibling) of the nominated author;
• have a current business or financial relationship with the nominated author;
• are currently or have been in the last five years a research collaborator or co-author with a nominated author; or
• have another conflict that they believe would undermine the integrity of the process.

PES Legacy Award (for graduate students only)

Criteria: originality; quality of the argument or inquiry; scholarly contribution to the field of philosophy of education.

Eligibility: Full papers that are single-authored or co-authored by graduate students only and submitted to the annual conference are eligible for considera5on. Graduate students can be nominated for both the PES Outstanding Paper Award and the PES Legacy Award, but cannot win both awards. If a graduate student wins the Outstanding Paper Award, they cannot also win the Legacy Award.

Nomination Process and Award Committee: The PES Program Chair nominates four (4) papers for the PES Legacy Award but does not participate in the award review itself. The PES Legacy Award Committee will comprise the current PES President and two other members invited by the PES Program Chair. At least one of these two members will be a past president of PES.

Nature of the award: The award comes with a $250 cash prize and an award cer5ficate. The award recipient will also be listed on the Awards section of the PES website.

Conflicts of Interest: Members of the PES Legacy Award Committee are not eligible for nomination. Prior to reviewing the papers, members of the Committee will review the author names of the shortlisted papers. If they have a conflict of interest, they will recuse themselves from the committee and the Program Chair will seek a replacement. A member has a conflict of interest if they:

• have served or are serving as a Master’s or Doctoral supervisor or co-supervisor for the nominated author;
• are the spouse or direct family member (child, parent, or sibling) of the nominated author;
• have a current business or financial rela5onship with the nominated author;
• are currently or have been in the last five years a research collaborator or co-author with a nominated author; or
• have another conflict that they believe would undermine the integrity of the process.