Agora Archive — Columns
<em>Becoming Aotearoa</em> and the Contested Remaking of a Nation’s Historiography
27 Jun 2025
The Transformation of Aotearoa New Zealand Historiography New Zealand historiography has undergone a profound transformation over the past half-century, moving decisively away from celebratory colonial narratives toward a complex, often challenging engagement with the nation’s past. This shift, driv…
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EPAT Call for Abstracts - Tenuous or Creative Scholarship?: A Manifesto for Philosophers of Education Living Between Western and Non-Western Cultures in Postcolonial Asia and Beyond
25 Jun 2025
15 September 2025
In a recent EPAT editorial titled “Is Philosophy of Education Western?”, Jackson and Kwak (2025) advocate for the initiative Philosophies of Education in Asia and Beyond, which emphasizes non-Western educational traditions such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Islam, Indian philosophies, and Indig…
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…
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The Education/EdTech Legitimation Complex
17 Jun 2025
The Oxford/DeepMind ‘Habermas Machine’ (from Nicholas Kees at LessWrong) 1. Introduction: The Promise and Problem of EdTech EdTech has always been eager to help. It arrives at the educational scene armed with dashboards, integrations and the kind of cheerful rhetoric usually reserved for star…
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Toward an Epistemic AI Literacy
13 Jun 2025
Introduction There is a phrase I often encounter in conversations about AI and creative labour: Only good writers get AI to write well. It’s meant to reassure – to affirm that human expertise still matters, that machine fluency alone doesn’t suffice. But I’ve begun to worry that the phrase misreads…
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Notes on The AIMarxED Framework
7 Jun 2025
Introduction: AI as the General Condition of Cognition The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) signals a paradigmatic transformation in the architecture of human cognition. No longer confined to discrete applications, AI has become a general condition of thought itself – reshaping how knowledge i…
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AIMarx as Neo-Autonomist Research Programme
4 Jun 2025
‘AIMarx’ not as a dogmatic oracle but as a dynamic, neo-Autonomist research program – a digital remastering and reasoning of Marx’s most visionary fragment, weaponised against techno-capitalist hegemony. Here is its core logic and implications: Core Foundations of AIMarx (as defined) 1. Intellectual…
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The Art of Prompting
3 Jun 2025
This manifesto proposes a radical reconceptualisation of prompting – not as a technical skill alone, but as a living epistemic practice grounded in centuries of philosophical inquiry. Drawing from ontological, ethical and pedagogical traditions, we situate prompting within a lineage of dialogic reas…
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Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy SIG 2026 Symposium Philosophy of Education Society annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 5-9
3 Jun 2025
Submission Deadline: August 4, 2025
The Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy SIG of Philosophy of Education Society (PES) invites submissions for its 2026 symposium on the theme “Being Included.” This call speaks directly to scholars concerned with how exclusion, belonging, and resistance are lived and felt in educational settings…
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The Dialectic of a Philosophical Education
24 May 2025
Duarte, E. (2025). The dialectic of a philosophical education: A new phenomenology. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003457879 The Dialectic of a Philosophical Education is a phenomenological description of the studia liberalia as the philosophical learning that occurs in three dist…
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‘Fragment on the Machines: Redux’
22 May 2025
As part of a talk at the School of Marxism at Peking University entitled ‘Educating for Post-Capitalist AI: Marxism, Superintelligence and the Future of Learning,’ I developed the concept of AIMarx, intending to explain what AIMarx would say in the voice of a digitised Marx – a revolutionary AI, tra…
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Relational and multimodal higher education: Digital, social and environmental perspectives, by Nataša Lacković and Alin Olteanu
22 May 2025
Lacković, N., & Olteanu, A. (2023). Relational and multimodal higher education: Digital, social and environmental perspectives. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003155201 This book responds to some of the most pressing issues of our times in and for education. Although it is targeted towar…
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2026 International DIPS conference
13 May 2025
Call for Papers Deadline: 30 November 2025 | Conference Dates: August 20-23rd, 2026 — The University of Hamburg (Germany)
CALL FOR PAPERS for the 2026 International DIPS conference The University of Hamburg (Germany) August 20-23rd, 2026 Dialogue in public spaces (political, academic, social, virtual, etc.,) is too often unreasonable, uncivil, and lacking in reflection. Since reasonable, civil and reflective dialogue i…
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Making Sense of the Learning Turn
12 May 2025
M.P. Introductory Comments The new book that Professor Anders Örtenblad has edited is entitled Making Sense of the Learning Turn: Why and In What Sense Toys, Organisations, Economies and Cities are ‘Learning’ (2024). There is a vast literature on learning, and much of it speaks about a ‘learning tur…
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The legacy of <i>Education To Be More</i> for early childhood education in Aotearoa New Zealand
13 Apr 2025
In 1980, Geraldine McDonald wrote: 'Measures to promote the rights of children are frequently disguised ways of controlling the role of women.' McDonald's challenge to policymakers is cited in the 1988 report of the Early Childhood Care and Education Working Group, Education To Be More (a.k.a. the M…
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Embracing the Tensions
9 Apr 2025
White, E. J., & Janfada, M. (2025). Dialogic methodology for transdisciplinary practice-based research. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197764442.001.0001 [preview the introduction here] Dialogic Methodology for Transdisciplinary Practice-Based Research by E. Jayne White…
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Mana ōrite mō te mātauranga Māori
20 Mar 2025
Longstanding debates about Māori knowledge in science classrooms have been reinvigorated by recent policy changes. This column focuses on the principle of ‘mana ōrite mō te mātauranga Māori’ that was adopted as one of seven changes in the programme aimed at strengthening NCEA, the national school qu…
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PESGB Summer School 2025
21 Feb 2025
Deadline: April 1st, 2025
Postgraduate research students are invited to apply for the 2025 Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) Summer School, hosted at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. The University of Strathclyde will be hosting the Summer School in Philosophy of Education from Monday 23 June…
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…
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In Praise of Philosophy with Colour
20 Feb 2025
Introduction The idea for this paper was first conceived at the PESA Conference in Auckland in 2013, where I organised a symposium with Duck-Joo Kwak, Ruyu Hung and Mika Okabe on the theme ‘Does Place Matter for the Philosophy of Education?’ My presentation, titled ‘Against the Colourless World of P…
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…
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Call for Expressions of Interest: Co-Researcher/Research Associate Positions (Post-Doctoral)
14 Feb 2025
April 30, 2025
The Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) invites expressions of interest for Co-Researcher/Research Associate positions (Post-Doctoral) as part of an important Research Pilot Project: Project Title: What is going on in Philosophy of Education in Teacher Education? This project seeks…
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Alas, America!
8 Feb 2025
Peters, M. A. (2020). Alas, America! Lament for a shattered dream on the eve of political breakdown. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(4), 393–397. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1837620 [This is a reprint of an editorial from late 2020: it provides a reminder of the fears many expressed…
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…