Knight's career has focused on development of justificatory reasoning skills and embedding philosophy within school curricula across the year levels. On her return to Australia, Knight took up academic positions first with the University of Adelaide and then with the
University of South Australia's School of Education, holding both teach and research positions for over 20 years. Her career focus has led to her involvement in writing South Australia's Senior Secondary Philosophy curriculum and she served as inaugural Chair of the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia's Philosophy Subject Advisory Committee. Knight established and held the inaugural Chair of the South
Australian Philosophy in Education Association, which is involved in primary and middle school education. From 2006 to 2009 Knight held the joint editorship of
Critical and Creative Thinking: The Australasian Journal of Philosophy in Education with Carol Collins. • Speaker at the Young Minds Conference in Sydney in 2012. • Knight addressed the 22nd meeting of the
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethics in Washington in September 2015. • In 2015 Knight gave The Ronald B Lippin Lecture in Ethics and the keynote address to the annual
Rock Ethics Institute's Moral Literacy Colloquium at
Pennsylvania State University. The title of the lecture was:
After Lipman: A Developmental K-6 Ethics Curriculum. • Knight was a panel member in the discussion on the societal role of
secular ethics with the
Dalai Lama at the Happiness and its Causes conference, June 2015. • In 2018 Knight was invited to speak at Skepticon 2018, The
Australian Skeptics National Convention.
New South Wales Ethics Course Trial In 2010 Knight was chief evaluator of the NSW Ethics Course Trial and published her final report in September 2010. In December 2010
New South Wales Parliament amended the
New South Wales Education Act to give students who do not attend Special Religious Education (Scripture) classes in NSW public schools the legal right to attend philosophical ethics classes as an option to supervised "private study". Knight resigned from the University of South Australia to become lead curriculum author for Primary Ethics Limited, an independent not-for-profit organisation, chosen to create the Ethics program to be delivered as the alternative to Special Religious Education (Scripture) in NSW Public schools. Both the trial and the introduction of ethics classes was not without controversy with objections and support coming from various church, secular, school and parent groups and interest from other states. == References ==