- David Hunt Teaching Award, OISE, University of Toronto (2013).
- Invited Lansdowne Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education, University of Victoria (February 2012)
- A.E.S.A. Critics’ Choice Award (2008) for Key Questions for Educators (co-edited with William Hare).
- Canadian Society for the Study of Education (C.S.S.E.) Mentorship Award (2005).
- A.E.S.A. Critics’ Choice Award (2001) for The Erosion of Democracy in Education; From Critique to Possibilities (co-edited with R. Patrick Solomon).
- Invited Noted Scholar, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia (summer 1998).
- Canadian Association for the Foundations of Education (C.A.F.E.) Book Award (1998) for Philosophy of Education: Introductory Readings (co-edited with William Hare).
- American Educational Studies Association (A.E.S.A.) Critics’ Choice Award (1997) for Children, Philosophy, and Democracy (co-edited with Ronald Reed).
- McGill University Graduate Studies Research Scholarship (1983 – 84).
- McConnell Graduate Fellowship, McGill University (1980 – 83).
- The Guy Desautels Memorial Prize (1979) for the best graduate thesis in the Department of Philosophy, McGill University.
- Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship (1977 – 79).