ACCESS Archive — Vol 45 2025
Book Review The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum by Laura D’Olimpio (2024)
2 Dec 2025
Book Review: The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum by Laura D’Olimpio (2024). The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum by Laura D’Olimpio (2024). London: Bloomsbury Academic. 176 pp. ISBN: 9781350120907 (Hardback). $115.00.…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 45 2025
Some reflections of a school teacher
2 Dec 2025
Some reflections of a school teacher Doug Goldson Abstract This article contributes to the debate on school improvement. It is based on a series of connected reflections on the scope of methodology in teaching; research in teaching; institutional practices; mandatory training; and Saul’s theory of i…
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A tale of two schools: Arguments for a theory of Post-Education
20 Jul 2025
A tale of two schools: Arguments for a theory of Post-Education Cristian Rodriguez Auckland University of Technology Abstract For decades, educators and academics have debated the transformative potential of technology in education, yet the promised shift has failed to materialise. Even during the p…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
Education for education’s sake? Notes on post-critical pedagogy by example of the compensatory task of education in Sweden
25 Jun 2025
Education for education’s sake? Notes on post-critical pedagogy by example of the compensatory task of education in Sweden Claudia Schumann and Eric Larsson Södertörn University and Stockholm University Abstract Since the recent call for a turn towards a “post-critical educational philosophy,” seve…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 44(3) 'I’m here to help': Essays in memory of Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
20 Feb 2025
Introduction It was an immediate nod to accept the chance to contribute to this collection that seeks to acknowledge and honour the mahi (work) of Fa’anānā Efeso Collins, MP (1974-2024). The late Fa’anānā Efeso Collins was more than a trailblazer and Pacific leader in Aotearoa New Zealand. He was a…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 45 2025
Women’s place in higher education: The 21 Tara model of Compassion, Care and Commitment (3Cs) in action
18 Feb 2025
Women’s place in higher education: The 21 Tara model of Compassion, Care and Commitment (3Cs) in action Sonam Chuki Independent Gender and Social Inclusion Professional, Thimphu city, Thimphu, Bhutan Abstract Women academics respond differently to men in teaching profession. Teaching is a demanding…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 45 2025
Perspectives of two Bhutanese women on student-teacher relationships
6 Feb 2025
Perspectives of Two Bhutanese Women on Student-teacher Relationships Yangdon and Kinley Seden Samtse College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan Abstract The quality of relationship between teachers and their students is of utmost importance as it has a profound influence on students' e…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 44(3) 'I’m here to help': Essays in memory of Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
By Us, With Us, For Us: The Importance of Pacific Political Leadership in Aotearoa New Zealand
8 Dec 2024
Fa’anānā Efeso Collins was a Pacific leader; a brown voice in spaces in Aotearoa where our voices are traditionally not heard. He believed that Pacific communities deserved political representatives who not only worked for their communities, but who were brave and honest leaders who could inspire “s…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 44(3) 'I’m here to help': Essays in memory of Fa’anānā Efeso Collins
Efeso, my friend
8 Dec 2024
Efeso, my friend Ruth Irwin RMIT University Melbourne, Australia My friend Fa’anānā Efeso Collins was a highly educated and principled man. He wove a political path that navigated modern normativity in Auckland, Samoan Christianity, Samoan cultural values, and with deep respect and acknowledg…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 44 2024
Do dialogic teaching models always guarantee empowering the student’s voice in classroom dialogue?
20 Nov 2024
Do dialogic teaching models always guarantee empowering the student’s voice in classroom dialogue? Mark Debono Department of Systems of Knowledge, University of Malta Junior College, Msida, Malta Abstract This paper challenges the prevailing assumption that dialogic teaching models always guarantee…
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Disjunctures and flows in the global “scapes”: The case of Indian medical students in China
14 Nov 2024
Disjunctures and flows in the global “scapes”: The case of Indian medical students in China Bin Wua , Pengtao Yub & Xiaomin Jiaob aSchool of Education, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia; bSchool of International Education, Zhengzhou University, China Abstract Traditionally, international stu…
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Opinion: Reflections on critical thinking
14 Nov 2024
Gerry Dunne Marino Institute of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Abstract This short essay explores a series of conceptual misconceptions surrounding critical thinking, a widely endorsed yet poorly understood concept in educational discourse. Despite its central importance, critica…
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Commentary: Respectful relations between science and Māori knowledge
29 Sep 2024
Georgina Tuari Stewarta , John Perrottb , Hannah L. Buckleyb , Sarah Burlib , Pare Keihaa, Leilani Walkerb , Dion Henarec , & Kowhai Wilkieb aTe Ara Poutama, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand; bSchool of Science, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand; cS…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 44 2024
Guilty as charged?
25 Sep 2024
Gerry Dunne Marino Institute of Education, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland Abstract What is lost when the research-informed testimony of philosophers of education is side-lined and their work interpretatively silenced, dismissed, undervalued or excluded? And how do such exclusionary practice…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
The dark side of critical thinking and the need to restore learning relationships
7 Sep 2024
Niclas Rönnström Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract In the 20th century, critical thinking emerged as an important ideal in and aim of education. Hardly anyone opposes critical thinking, its weight is re-enforced in debates on education and its positive…
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A moral community of a realm of ends
7 Sep 2024
Klas Roth Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract When education only is affected by the instrumental principle and its substantiation vis-à-vis specific normative requirements as narratives, practices and traditions of certain kinds, education merely promote…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
Rethinking education
7 Sep 2024
Mark Murphy University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Abstract The focus of the paper is on the relation between education and solidarity and the possible futures that this might entail. A concern over solidarity has been a constant in different forms over the history of western education syst…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
Teaching as a dance with and towards dignity
7 Sep 2024
Lia Bahizi Department of Education, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. Abstract In educational research there is a plethora of propositions on different ways to address the problem of too narrow and merely/mainly extrinsic and future-oriented aims of education such as the one of produci…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
Thinking with Spinoza, Locke, and Dewey about self-control, education, and democracy
24 Jul 2024
Atli Harðarson School of Education, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland Abstract In the 17th century Spinoza and Locke wrote about education as aiming at self-control. In the 20th century Dewey argued for a similar view in Experience and education, where he described education as enabli…
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The ‘feverish’ society and the aims of education
24 Jul 2024
Marianna Papastephanou Department of Education, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus Abstract Borrowing the Platonic metaphor of a ‘feverish’ society, this article discusses the argument that a critical stance toward our contemporary realities makes a revisiting of educational aims more urge…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
INTRODUCTION | Re-visiting and re-thinking aims of education
24 Jul 2024
Education changes over time and place, and so do aims of education. Education was once exclusive and accessible for only a few, often for an elite of some kind. However, education has gradually become more inclusive and accessible or even mandatory for all. And that has not been the only major chang…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 44 2024
Workload and the crisis in Australian school teaching
16 Jul 2024
Doug Goldson High School Teacher, Queensland, Australia Abstract The teaching profession in Australia is in crisis. There is a dramatic shortage of teachers and little prospect of significant improvement in the years ahead. This commentary gives an insider view of what is wrong with the teach…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 43(2) Computational Thinking and the Curriculum
Visual modelling and emergent aspects of computational thinking
22 Aug 2023
James E. Clayson American University of Paris, Paris, France Abstract In 2006, Jeanette Wing announced—in a very short, three-page paper—a new discipline she labelled ‘Computational Thinking.’ This new field, CT, she said, is not the same as just programming, because it also includes the ener…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 43 2023
Opportunities and challenges of women academics of Samtse College of Education
10 Aug 2023
Kinley Seden and Yangdon Samtse College of Education, Royal University of Bhutan, Thimphu, Bhutan Abstract Employing a narrative approach, the aim of this study was to contribute to an understanding of how women academics experience career success and challenges, what factors impact success,…