Events
PaTHES Webinar: Rethinking Emotions in Higher Education
20 Jan 2025
12 March 2025: UK 7-8am – CET 8-9am – Hong Kong 3-4pm – Sydney 6-7pm – NZ 8- 9pm — Online
Many might assume that emotional education is not a central part of education. If it is relevant, it would seem most relevant in early years (i.e., early childhood education) rather than in higher education. In this webinar, Liz Jackson challenges this assumption. Jackson begins by reconceptualising…
Books
Enabling Students' Voices and Identities: Philosophical Inquiry in a Time of Discord
7 Jan 2025 — Arie Kizel
One of the challenges that educational systems are facing worldwide is enabling the voices of children from silenced, marginalized, and excluded groups to be heard in communities of philosophical inquiry. Children from unprivileged socioeconomic sectors or minorities, and whose narrative is not in accord with that of the dominant mainstream narrative, often feel uncomfortable expressing their feelings, experiences, and mostly their authentic philosophical questions during communities of philosophical inquiry. They prefer not to raise the questions from their identity perspective. Even if they are friendly, such communities of inquiry are governed--even if implicitly--by the hegemonic meta-narrative. This book addresses the challenges of authentic inclusion of these children and their identities/narratives. Arie Kizel analyzes both how discourse about multiple identities and narratives can enrich the theoretical foundations of philosophy for/with children, as opposed to the sterile banking and normalizing education, and the challenge of various identities and their uniqueness within childhood in order to offer theoretical and pedagogical-educational solutions within philosophy for and with children. This book furthers our understanding of dialogical inquiry, particularly within a pluralistic environment that explicitly promotes democratic culture.
Agora Archive — Columns
The Public University as a Real Utopia
13 Dec 2024
Covid-19 and the Universities And what about the historically public universities, the concern of this brief book? First and foremost, the pandemic brought to the fore universities as hubs of science and research. After all, it was to science that the world turned for explanations to what was transp…
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…
Books
Being and becoming through higher education: Expanding possibilities
28 Nov 2024 — Gloria Dall'Alba
Given that multiple – sometimes competing – demands are being made of higher education, what is it to focus on doing and for what purpose? Higher education arguably has a responsibility to develop how students are learning to be in the present and becoming into the future. This development is not limited to the individual, however. It occurs, and has relevance, within the communities to which students belong and those within which they aspire to participate, such as professional communities. This book is intended to prompt re-imagining the ways in which higher education is conceived and conducted. An argument is put forward for greater emphasis on expanding possibilities for knowing, acting and being, toward fuller lives of interdependence with others and things in an interconnected world. Through highlighting an ontological dimension in this manner, a hope-filled future emerges for higher education.
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…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 44 2024
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…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 44 2024
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…
Agora Archive — Columns
Chopin’s Index Card & Derrida’s Postcard
2 Nov 2024
An opera singer texted me: ‘Look at this scrap of paper.’ Javier C. Hernández, music reporter for the New York Times, unearths something nearly unfathomable. ‘It was much smaller than I had imagined – a pockmarked scrap about the size of an index card.’ A cellphone. An image. A photograph taken of t…
CFPs
Call for Papers: European Seminars in Philosophy of Education (ESPE)
6 Oct 2024
1 March 2025
The founding meeting of European Seminars in Philosophy of Education will be held at the University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands on July 3rd and 4th. Contemporary philosophy of education benefits from a long legacy of thinking about education in Europe. Many of the concepts, theor…
Agora Archive — Columns
Descartes and Trust
3 Oct 2024
Descartes Rene Descartes famously argued ‘I think therefore I am.’ His method relied on him having a clear and distinct idea, in this case, ‘I think.’ A less famous argument, but one that has engaged philosophers since, is ‘I doubt therefore I may not be’ or perhaps ‘I may not be as I think I am.’ ‘…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 44 2024
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…
Agora Archive — Columns
Are We in Love with Hate?
29 Sep 2024
Here’s much to do with love but more with hate; my only love sprung from my only hate (William Shakespeare) In the shadowed recesses of contemporary history, where the air is thick with portent, and the spectre of tyranny looms, we witness a wretched figure rising from the grave of disillusionment…
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…
Agora Archive — Columns
Cultural Form over Substance
23 Sep 2024
Nopera Panakareao was a rangatira (leader) of the Te Pātū hapū of Te Rarawa in the first half of the 19th century. Nopera converted to Christianity, taking a Christian name (Nopera is a transliteration of ‘Noble’), and entered into good faith trade and land transactions with English settlers, who we…
CFPs
CPES 2025 CALL FOR PROPOSALS
21 Sep 2024
Proposal Deadline: 9 October 2024
We would like to extend a warm invitation to submit your proposals for the upcoming 2025 meeting of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society (CPES). CPES’s annual meeting includes paper sessions, panels, symposia, and an array of networking opportunities. CPES operates under the umbrella of the…
CFPs
Questioning Technology in Education: Countering Dominant Narratives and Developing Strategies of Resistance
21 Sep 2024
Submission deadline: November 15, 2024
Proposals papers and panels (symposia) are invited for the 2025 Canadian Philosophy of Education Society (CPES) pre-conference. The preconference, which will take place the day before the CPES conference in Toronto, will include at least one invited speaker, as well as what we hope will be a solid n…
Agora Archive — Columns
The Land of Milk and Hate
19 Sep 2024
They say calling Trump what he is – a pedant authoritarian, a convicted criminal, an enabler of the worst and most dangerous elements of our body politic – constitutes a death threat, not a description. Sorry, MAGA, but if the jackboot fits, wear it: he is an authoritarian, a statist, a racist, an a…
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…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
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…
Agora Archive — Columns
America’s Tears of Sorrow
1 Sep 2024
America is shedding torrents of molten sorrow, tears that burn like liquid fire, searing their way through the bedrock of its democratic ideals. These are no ordinary tears but a deluge of molten despair cascading down from the heavens, each drop a scorching testament to the unravelling of the natio…