Sukhvinder Shahi

Sukhvinder Shahi is a philosopher with a background in childhood education and educational psychology. She has taught in schools and universities in India and the United States, including St. Stephen’s College and Hindu College at the University of Delhi, the University of Missouri, the University of Arizona, and the NYU Center for Bioethics. She is now based at Oxford.

Her doctoral research focused on knowledge-how, especially from the lens of developmental cognition and how children acquire practical knowledge as they grow. She is currently working on philosophy of education with a focus on education and society, particularly on how children can be trained to become autonomous and critical thinkers in the twenty-first century.

Besides theories of knowledge and philosophy of education, she has interests in aesthetics, especially political art and the ethics of heritage and preservation. She has published on the renovation of the famous Amritsar Massacre Memorial in a volume published by Bloomsbury and is currently co-editing a special issue of the British Journal of Aesthetics on transnational feminist aesthetics.