Books
Eco-rational education: An educational response to environmental crisis
10 Nov 2023 — Thornton, Simone
Eco-Rational Education proposes an educational response to climate change, environmental degradation, and destructive human relations to ecology through the delivery of critical land-responsive environmental education. The book argues that education is a powerful vehicle for both social change and cultural reproduction. It proposes that the prioritisation and integration of environmental education across the curriculum is essential to the development of ecologically rational citizens capable of responding to the environmental crisis and an increasingly changing world. Using philosophical analysis, particularly environmental philosophy, pragmatism, and ecofeminism, the book develops an understanding of contemporary issues in education, especially inquiry-based learning as pedagogy, diversifying knowledge, environmental and epistemic justice, climate change education, and citizenship education. Eco-Rational Education will be of interest to researchers and post-graduate students of social and political philosophy, educational philosophy, as well as environmental philosophy, ethics, and teacher education.
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Philosophy of Education in Dialogue between East and West: Japanese Insights and Perspectives
9 Nov 2023 — Masamichi Ueno
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Refuge and Resilience: Being-Together in a Post-Apocalyptic Era
31 Oct 2023
‘The Golden Calf: Technology as Apocalypse’ by Karl Anton Wolf Apocalyptic Literature Apocalyptic literature as an aspect of Judaic-Christian culture can be traced to the Book of Daniel in the Hebrew Bible and Revelations as the last book of the Christian Bible, although early sources indicate the i…
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What Would it Take to Make Knowledge-Sharing Possible?
30 Oct 2023
It’s open access week on Brill. So, in this episode of Humanities Matter on Spotify, Ramzi Nasir and guests break down the concept of open access to research. Is it a basic human right? What’s its role in shaping global development? And how are technologies - both new and old - influencing a movemen…
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Higher Education for Good
28 Oct 2023
Czerniewicz, L., & Cronin, C. (2023). Higher education for good: Teaching and learning futures. Open Book. https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0363 When there is the opportunity for deep thinking about “higher education for good” we should always ask, “good for whom?” One of the most devastating conseq…
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Xi Jinping’s Global Civilisation Initiative
28 Oct 2023
A single flower does not make spring, while one hundred flowers in full blossom bring spring to the garden. In the last year, President Xi has issued three major global initiatives: the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative and, most recently, the Global Civilisation Initiati…
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The US War Machine and Culture of War
20 Oct 2023
The concept of Empire is dedicated to the idea of peace. (Hardt & Negri, 2004) A structuralist analysis of the US permanent war economy follows the governmentality of the market as revealed by mainstream economics to make three underlying assumptions: (i) peace is a normal state of affairs that…
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Co-governance and biculturalism in education in Aotearoa New Zealand
21 Sep 2023
Mural at Western Springs College/Ngā Puna o Waiōrea, Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland In Aotearoa New Zealand, the concept of co-governance has been used mainly in discussions about national conservation lands. That these discussions have been widespread for some time is indicated by a 2016 report from the…
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White Supremacy and ‘White Innocence’ Were Behind the Killings in Jacksonville
13 Sep 2023
Reprinted with permission from Truthout, September 8, 2023. (Image by Mark Dixon) The murder of three Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, last month by white male supremacist Ryan Christopher Palmeter, who later killed himself, cannot be understood as anything other than an act of racist terroris…
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BRICS11
6 Sep 2023
At the two-day BRICS Summit 2023 in Johannesburg (August 22–24), the fifteenth annual summit since the establishment of the organisation in 2006, the five member states of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa took the historic decision to expand the BRICS membership by adding six new member st…
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New World Financial Architecture?
25 Aug 2023
The BRICS bloc and the ‘Next Eleven’* Introduction: The Challenges The BRICS phenomenon that started life as a Goldman Sachs’ concept for emerging or rising economies shifted to a formal institutional status in 2006 of four countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and later five countries with the a…
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…
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The Emergence of Black Studies
20 Aug 2023
Introduction In a story by Minna Salami (2015) in The Guardian entitled ‘Philosophy Has to be about More than White Men,’ the following claim is made, ‘The campaign to counter the narrow-mindedness of university courses is gathering pace because philosophy should investigate all human existence.’ Sa…
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Why is Everything Wrong?
16 Aug 2023
I have just returned from a trip from Saas-Fee, Switzerland, studying at the European Graduate School. Kant’s sublime does not capture the awe and terror of being in the Alps. The beauty, the majesty … and yet everything else in the world is wrong. In the film The Hours, based on Mrs Dalloway, Virgi…
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Educators must help defeat the new racist and imperialist ‘Red Scare’
14 Aug 2023
Introduction: Racism and imperialism unite ‘both sides of the aisle’ Responding to criticism of the political system of the newly-independent Tanzania, the great African teacher, revolutionary and theorist Julius Nyerere responded, observing ‘the United States is also a one-party state, but with typ…
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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,…
Books
Nature, Art, and Education in East Asia: Philosophical Connections
7 Aug 2023 — Ruyu Hung
This volume explores the deeply interwoven connection of education, art and nature in the context of East Asia. With contributions from authors in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, the book considers unnoticed but significant themes involved in the interplay of nature, art, and education. It manifests how nature and art can educate, and how education and nature play the role of art. The chapters explore a range of themes relevant to East Asian characteristics, including skill acquisition, Japanese calendar arts and ritual of feelings, garden architecture, the ritualised body, collaborative poetry art, translational language between humans and nature, the Confucian classical Six Arts, the artistic embodiment of the Kyoto School, and the heritage art based education in Korea. The authors examine these themes in novel ways to bring to light the relevance of the East Asian insights to the contemporary global world. This book is an outstanding resource to all researchers, scholars, and students interested in educational aesthetics, philosophy of education, East Asian studies, comparative education and intercultural education.
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Hobbits and the Rebirth of Italian Fascism
6 Aug 2023
As a teenager, Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s first female Prime Minister and leader of the Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia) party, a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party with neo-fascist roots, joined a local youth section of the neofascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) wh…
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Repositioning Slavery
31 Jul 2023
Enlisted African American soldier outside 8 Whitehall Street, a slave market in Atlanta, Georgia, fall 1864 According to Florida’s new revisionist task force on African American education, set into motion by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, important skills were acquired by enslaved Africans working o…
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Past the Tower, Under the Tree
3 Jul 2023
For many people, education is synonymous with uniforms and tote trays, assemblies and sports days. The cool terraces of a lecture theatre; the rotating team of tutors. But another form of education has always existed and continues in Aotearoa today: teaching that is grounded in relationships and lea…
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The Cosmic Mountain
1 Jul 2023
Cosmic mountains are places where human beings can retreat in order to face the ghosts of the past and ask for forgiveness. In France, there exists a cosmic mountain where the ghosts of the victims of the Deutsches Ahnenerbe-Studiengesellschaft fur Geistesurgeschichte in Natzweiler Struthoff (a Nazi…
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By Our Acts, Ye Shall Know Us
29 Jun 2023
We’ll play a melody and turn the lights down low so that none can see. We gotta do that. We gotta do that. We gotta do that. We gotta do that. And there’ll be no one else alive’ cept you and me. – George Fame and the Blue Flames Caught Between the Tectonic Plates of History Human relationships do no…
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Pacific wayfinding educational leadership through Tautai o le Moana
24 May 2023
Rae Si‘ilataab, Mary M. Jacobsac, Martha Asetaad, Kyla Hansella and Samuel Tu'itahief aVa‘atele Education Consulting, Auckland, New Zealand; bTe Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, New Zealand; cAuckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand; dThe University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; e…
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The Torment of Capitalism
21 May 2023
Napoleon Putin (image created using Craiyon AI) They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nations shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore; but they shall all sit under their own vines and under their own fig trees, and no…