Episodes
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Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Kenâs work covers neoliberal privatization, politics of education, culture, and subjectivity in education through critical theory and critical educational tradition. He joins us on this episode of Collective Intellectualities to chat about his new book, The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers, out now on MIT Press.
Links to selected works:
The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press, 2022)
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544368/the-alienation-of-fact/
The Disaster of Resilience: Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering (Bloomsbury, 2023)
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Andrew Gibbons, Professor at the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, joins us on this episode to discuss his work in relation to philosophy, policy, science fiction, and care. His research creatively and distinctively focuses on philosophy of education and growing teacher education programs that engage academic and community relationships beyond disciplinary boundaries. Andrew is involved in several professional organizations, including Association of Visual Pedagogies and Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), and was recently named a PESA Fellow.
Links to recent works:Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy: Children Ex Machina (edited by David W. Kupferman and Andrew Gibbons, Springer Nature, 2019)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6210-1
Love and Education Beyond the Event Horizon: An Apology to Christopher Nolan (2023) in Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education, vol. 4
https://research.library.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=phil_research
Expressions of Wai in ECE: Te Wai Pounamu. National Report to International Pilot Project 2022: Wash from the StartâLocal Conditions for Childrenâs Access to Water
https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/media/documents/education-and-health/research/CWBI3455_ECE_Wai_Project_Report_WEB-(1).pdf
The Negation of Babysitting: Deconstruction and Care in Early Childhood (2020) in Global Studies of Childhood, vol. 10, issue 4, as part of the themed issue, âPhilosophies, Politics, and Pedagogies of Care in the Early Yearsâ
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gsca/10/4
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For todayâs episode, weâll be chatting with Neil Selwyn, who is a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. An internationally recognized scholar, Neilâs research focuses on digital education and technology. Neilâs recent projects explore data in schooling, digital labor, AI technologies, and sustainability in educational technology.
Links to recent works:
Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology (2023) in Learning, Media, and Technology
https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2159978
The future of AI and education: Some cautionary notes (2022) in European Journal of Educationhttps://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12532
Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis (2021) in E-Learning and Digital Media
https://doi.org/10.1177/20427530211022951
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For this episode, we are sharing Keita Takayamaâs talk originally given during the Department of Educational Foundationsâ Fall 2022 Colloquium speaker series. Keita is Professor/Director for the Global Education Office in the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan. His research examines the globalization of educational policy and knowledge from a decolonial/postcolonial perspective. In this talk, Keita provides a critical self-reflection of the work he does as a co-editor of two international journals in education and the tensions and contradictions that arise in relation to his own scholarship.
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Mark Featherstone joins us for this episode of Collective Intellectualities. Mark is Professor of Social and Political Theory at Keele University, UK. He is author of Tocquevilleâs Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Theory (Routledge, 2007), Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Global Imaginary (Routledge, 2017), and editor of The Sociology of Debt (Policy, 2019), and Writing the Body Politic: A John OâNeill Reader (Routledge, 2019). He is also editor of Cultural Politics (Duke University Press). We chat about the disenchanted university, themes of utopia and dystopia, and how growing up in Hull in the 1970s influenced the direction of his research.
Links to select works:
Tocquevilleâs Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Theory (Routledge, 2007)
https://www.routledge.com/Tocquevilles-Virus-Utopia-and-Dystopia-in-Western-Social-and-Political/Featherstone/p/book/9780415542470
Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Global Imaginary (Routledge, 2017)
https://www.routledge.com/Planet-Utopia-Utopia-Dystopia-and-Globalisation/Featherstone/p/book/9780367864255
The Sociology of Debt (editor, Policy, 2019)
https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-sociology-of-debt
Writing the Body Politic: A John OâNeill Reader (editor, Routledge, 2019)
https://www.routledge.com/Writing-the-Body-Politic-A-John-ONeill-Reader/Featherstone-Kemple/p/book/9780367726805
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For this episode, weâre joined by Petar JandriÄ, Derek R. Ford, Michael A. Peters, and Sarah Hayes to discuss two books published in 2022: Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (edited by Michael, Petar, and Sarah) and Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures (edited by Petar and Derek). We talk about bioinformational philosophy and biodigitalism, scholarly production within the knowledge economy, and what it means to think and act postdigitally. Petar is Professor at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, Derek is Associate Professor of Education Studies at DePauw, Sarah is Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Education Observatory at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and we welcome back Michael, Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois, from episode 11 to the show. The conversation from this episode was developed into an article, âThe Postdigital-Biodigital Revolution,â in Postdigital Science and Education.
Links to works discussed:
Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies, edited by Michael A. Peters, Petar JandriÄ, Sarah Hayes (2022, Springer)
https://link.springer.com/book/9783030950057
Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures, edited by Petar JandriÄ, Derek R. Ford (2022, Springer)
https://link.springer.com/book/9783030972615
The Postdigital-Biodigital Revolution (2022) in Postdigital Science and Education
https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00338-9
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Jan McArthur, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, joins us to discuss her recent article, âCritical Theory in a Decolonial Age,â in Educational Philosophy and Theory, which is also available on PESA Agora. Informed by critical theory and particularly Adorno, Janâs work examines education, social justice, assessment, and higher education.
Links to Janâs work:Critical theory in a decolonial age (2021) in Educational Philosophy and Theory
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1934670
https://pesaagora.com/epat/critical-theory-in-a-decolonial-age/
Towards a Moral University: Horkheimer's commitment to the âvicissitudes of human fateâ (2019) in Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, 1(3), 131â151.
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/plg/ptihe/2019/00000001/00000003/art00008
Theodor Adorno: restless, fractured and uncomfortable thought (2020) in Philosophers of the University, edited by R. Barnett & A. Fulford (Springer).
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31061-5_3
The inclusive university: A critical theory perspective using a recognition-based approach (2021) in Social Inclusion, 9(3).
https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i3.4122
Rethinking authentic assessment: work, wellbeing and society (2022) in Higher Education Online First
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00822-y -
Wayne Au, Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington-Bothell, joins us this episode to discuss the tensions present in the practice of multicultural and social justice education in the contemporary moment. Wayneâs scholarship and activism engages issues of critical education theory, race and class in schooling, and related educational policies, such as those policies that give rise to high-stakes testing and impact school curriculum. Wayne is an editor of the leading social justice publication Rethinking Schools and has authored or edited countless books and articles, including several that we discuss in this episode. Follow Wayne on Twitter @profwayneau.
Links to select works discussed:
A Pedagogy of Insurgency: Teaching and Organizing for Radical Racial Justice in Our Schools (2021) in Educational Studies
https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2021.1878181
A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World (2018, Haymarket Books)
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1153-a-marxist-education
When Multicultural Education Is Not Enough (2017) in Multicultural Perspectives
https://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2017.1331741
Teaching Under the New Taylorism: HighâStakes Testing and the Standardization of the 21st Century Curriculum (2011) in Journal of Curriculum Studies
https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2010.521261
Unequal by Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality (2009, Routledge)
https://www.routledge.com/Unequal-By-Design-High-Stakes-Testing-and-the-Standardization-of-Inequality/Au-Au/p/book/9780415990714
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Recognized internationally as a preeminent philosopher of education, Michael A. Petersâ contributions to the field are extensive, including over a hundred published books and more than several hundred articles or chapters. In addition to his current roles as Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University, Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Auckland, he is also Editor-in-Chief for Educational Philosophy and Theory and Co-Editor-in-Chief for Beijing International Review of Education. Michael joins us this episode to discuss the influence of Wittgenstein and Foucault on his work as well as recent research that examines knowledge socialism, post-truth, conspiracy, and avenues for peer production.
Visit Michaelâs website at www.michaeladrianpeters.com and find links to selected recent works below.
Pandemic Education and Viral Politics
(2021, Routledge, with Tina Besley)
https://www.routledge.com/Pandemic-Education-and-Viral-Politics/Peters-Besley/p/book/9780367635404
The Far-Right, Education and Violence: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume IX
(2021, Routledge, with Tina Besley)
https://www.routledge.com/The-Far-Right-Education-and-Violence-An-Educational-Philosophy-and-Theory/Peters-Besley/p/book/9780367562014
Knowledge Socialism
The Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence
(2020, Springer, with Tina Besley, Petar JandriÄ, and Xudong Zhu)
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8126-3
Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem of Rationality
(2020, Springer)
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-9972-9
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Jairus Grove joins us this episode to discuss his book, Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. A radical departure from mainstream international relations, the book examines geopolitics through ecological theory while also contemplating on our current condition. Currently the Director of the Hawaiâi Research Center for Futures Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaiâi at MÄnoa, Jairus chats with us about philosophy, political violence, creativity and care, affirmation of difference, and the role of the university.
Links to Jairus Groveâs work:
Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World (2019), Duke University Press
https://www.dukeupress.edu/savage-ecology
Bringing the world back in: Revolutions and relations before and after the quantum event (2020) in Security Dialogue
https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010620940113
From geopolitics to geotechnics: global futures in the shadow of automation, cunning machines, and human speciation (2020) in International Relations
https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117820948582
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This episode has been in the CI vault for a while and we are excited to share it with everyone at this time. David Kupferman, Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Learning at Minnesota State University Moorhead, joins us on this episode to chat about educational futures, science fiction, and neoliberalism. Stay tuned for the first volume of a special issue, Educational Futures, edited by David for Policy Futures in Education, coming out this fall.
Links to Davidâs work:I, Robot Teacher (2020) in Educational Philosophy and Theory
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2020.1793534(Nothing But) Futures (2020) in ACCESS
https://pesaagora.com/access/nothing-but-futures/Educational Futures and Postdigital Science (2021) in Postdigital Science and Education
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For this episode, we chat with Peter Hershock, Director of the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) and Education Specialist at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaiâi. Trained in Asian and comparative philosophy, his research and writing draw on Buddhist conceptual resources to reflect on and address contemporary issues of global concern. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including a new book that we will be discussing today: Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future (2021), out now on Bloomsbury Publishing.
Link to Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future (2021)
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/buddhism-and-intelligent-technology-9781350182288/
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Georgina Stewart, Associate Professor in Te Kura MÄtauranga School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, joins us to discuss language, indigenous knowledges, and philosophy of education. We first revisit Georginaâs 2017 article, âWhat does âindigenousâ mean, for me?â; with over 70,000 views, it is one of the most read articles in Educational Philosophy and Theory. We then discuss Georginaâs work on Maori philosophy, hybridity, and typologies. Georginaâs latest book, Maori Philosophy: Indigenous Thinking from Aotearoa, is out now on Bloomsbury Publishing.
Links to Georginaâs work discussed:Maori Philosophy: Indigenous Thinking from Aotearoa
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/maori-philosophy-9781350101654
âWhat does âindigenousâ mean, for me?â
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2017.1302050
âFrom both sides of the indigenous-settler hyphen in Aotearoa New Zealandâ
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204904
âA Typology of PÄkehÄ Whiteness in Educationâ
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714413.2020.1773177
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Liz Jackson, Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, joins us this episode to discuss working as a philosopher of education during our current moment. Liz has published over 100 works including three recent books, Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong (2021), Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (2020), and Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (2019) which received the American Educational Studies Associationâs Criticâs Choice Book Award in 2020. Additionally, Liz is the immediate past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.
Links to Lizâs work:
Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education
https://www.routledge.com/Questioning-Allegiance-Resituating-Civic-Education/Jackson/p/book/9781138351110
Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/beyond-virtue/023FE0DC80C1D2275B20A5907FC99E30
Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong
https://www.routledge.com/Contesting-Education-and-Identity-in-Hong-Kong/Jackson/p/book/9780367672829 -
An internationally renowned writer and cultural critic, Henry Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. He has authored or co-authored over 67 books, written several hundred scholarly articles, delivered more than 250 public lectures, been a regular contributor to print, television, and radio news media outlets, and is one of the most cited Canadian academics working in any area of Humanities research. His latest book is Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis out on Bloomsbury Publishing.
Visit his website at https://www.henryagiroux.com/ and check out the link to Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy below:
Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis (2021). Bloomsbury Publishing https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/race-politics-and-pandemic-pedagogy-9781350184442/
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Tyson E. Lewis is a professor of art education in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas. His research interests include educational philosophy, critical theory, phenomenological research methods, and aesthetics. He is the author of Education Out of Bounds: Rethinking Imagination in a Posthuman Age (2010), The Aesthetics of Education: Theatre, Curiosity, and Politics in the Work of Jacques RanciĂšre and Paulo Freire (2012), On Study: Giorgio Agamben and Educational Potentiality (2013), Inoperative Learning: A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities (2017), and Walter Benjaminâs Anti-Fascist Education: From Riddles to Radio (2020).
Links to Tysonâs Work:
Studio-D Project. https://onstead.cvad.unt.edu/studio-d
Lewis T. and Kraehe, A. (2020). Rise: Emergent Strategies for Reclaiming Joy and Agency Against Neofascist and White Supremacist Assaultive Speech. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. Volume 37. https://jcrae.art.arizona.edu/index.php/jcrae/article/view/161
Lewis, T. (2020). Walter Benjaminâs Anti-Fascist Education: From Riddles to Radio. New York: SUNY Press. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6842-walter-benjamins-antifascist-ed.aspx
Lewis, T. (2017). Inoperative Learning: A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Inoperative-Learning-A-Radical-Rewriting-of-Educational-Potentialities/Lewis/p/book/9780367363260
Lewis T. and Valk, S. (2020). Educational realism: Defining Exopedagogy as the Choreography of Swarm Intelligence. Educational Philosophy and Theory. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2020.1803831
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Alder Keleman Saxena, an Assistant Research Professor in the Anthropology department at Northern Arizona University, joins us for this episode to discuss Feral Atlas: The More than Human Anthropocene, an interactive and interdisciplinary digital research project edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou. An environmental anthropologist whose research examines agricultural diversity and human social relationships, especially via food cultures, her work also explores human ecologies and the social and material implications. We chat about Feral Atlas, the Anthropocene, pedagogy, and finding different ways to reconfigure research and conceptual habits that may be insufficient to adequately address the challenges of the Anthropocene.
Be sure to visit Feral Atlas! www.feralatlas.org
Interested in the topics discussed in this episode such as long-term ethnography and creative collaborations? Check out Jennifer Degerâs recent book, Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology, available via MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/phone-spear
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This episode we chat with Gert Biesta. Gert has made integral contributions to the fields of education theory and the philosophy of education. Currently a Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland and a Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, UK, much of his work critically examines questions of democracy in education and education research.
Visit his website at www.gertbiesta.com and check out links to selected works below:
World-centred Education. (In Press/2021). London/New York: Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/World-Centred-Education-A-View-for-the-Present/Biesta/p/book/9780367565527
The Rediscovery of Teaching. (2017). London/New York: Routledge.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Rediscovery-of-Teaching/Biesta/p/book/9781138670709
Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society. (2019). Leiden: Brill | Sense.
https://brill.com/view/title/55081
Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction. (2020). London: Bloomsbury.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/educational-research-9781350097971/
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Nicole Nguyen, an Associate Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, joins us this episode to talk about security, geopolitics, and education. Through ethnography, her research critically examines national security issues, war, and militarization in US schools. She has two books out both on University of Minesota press: A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland security in US public schools, which received the 2017 Globe Book Award from the American Association of Geographers, and most recently, her 2019 book, Suspect communities: Anti-Muslim racism and the domestic war on terror.
Links to Nicole Nguyenâs books:
A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools. (2016). University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-curriculum-of-fear
Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror. (2019). University of Minnesota Press.
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/suspect-communities
