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Educating Philosophers: A Handbook of Best Practice
27 Aug 2024
Expressions of Interest Deadline: October 1st, 2024
The vast majority of philosophers are academics earning their living primarily as teachers. Yet only a tiny fraction are actively interested in philosophy of education or take notice of such jour- nals as Teaching Philosophy. Currently philosophy is under acute pressure from the political econ- omy…
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PES/Educational Theory Pre-Conference Workshop: PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION BEYOND THE HUMAN
27 Aug 2024
Deadline: November 1st, 2024; Workshop: March 6th, 2025 — Baltimore, Maryland
The committee invites submissions for the Pre-Conference Workshop, "Philosophy of Education Beyond the Human." The pre-conference workshop presents a unique opportunity to engage with colleagues, with the goal of creating a shared intellectual conversation around the proposed theme. Accepted papers…
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EPAT Special Issue & Workshop - Canonical Pluralism: New Approaches to Teaching the History of Philosophy
14 Aug 2024
November 20, 2024
In contrast to academic philosophy, teaching philosophy consists largely of reading philosophers from the past. This approach presupposes selecting works and authors that culminate in a ‘canon’: a set of works or authors from a specific period deemed outstanding by individuals at a later period. The…
Agora Archive — Columns
Digital Supercapitalism, AI and the Knowledge Economy
27 Jul 2024
Digital Supercapitalism Robert Reich, who served as Secretary of Labour under President Bill Clinton, published Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy and Everyday Life (2007), reflecting on how capitalism has evolved in recent decades. Reich argues that since the 1970s, the US a…
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…
ACCESS Archive — Volume 44(2) Re-visiting and Re-thinking Aims of Education
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…
Agora Archive — Columns
The Death Rattle of Democracy in the Age of Trumpism
21 Jul 2024
Donald Trump is the symbolic figurehead of the MAGA cult who has achieved a towering stature in the popular imagination because of his defiant behaviour after an assassin’s bullet came within an inch of its mark, leaving blood streaming across Trump’s face. Not only should Democrats be gearing up fo…
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Call for Papers: Special Issue “Educational Mosaic: Understanding BRICS States”
18 Jul 2024
15 November 2024
The Educational Studies journal invites scholars to contribute to an upcoming special issue dedicated to exploring the multifaceted landscape of education within the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates). The BRICS states re…
Events
SHAKING DOWN ON VISUAL PEDAGOGIES
18 Jul 2024
December 4th, 2024 9:30 am -12 noon — Tūranga, Christchurch, New Zealand
In collaboration with the PESA conference, the Association for Visual Pedagogies (AVP) presents a panel discussion, followed by interactive workshops, traversing what visual pedagogies shake up and settle down. This discussion and following workshops will delve into the initiatives, innovations, int…
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SCOPICASTING – DOING VISUAL METHODS TO CRAFT SOCIAL FUTURES
18 Jul 2024
November 14th 2024 13.00 – 14:30 (DK Time) — Face to Face and Online, Lancaster University, UK
This is a symposium for reseachers at all stages of their career and across disciplines interested in applying and developing visual research methods and pedagogies in relation to their disciplines to inform social futures. The symposium particularly focuses on visual methods in conjunction with spe…
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VIRTUAL REALITY FORUM IMMERSIVE POSSIBILITIES OF EDUCATION IN VR
18 Jul 2024
September 16th 2024, 6.30 pm (NZST) — Online
In line with the current visual technology developments The Association for Visual Pedagogies initiated a Virtual Reality Forum about and in VR. This forum welcomes any members who have an interest in VR. Our group is very diverse and is comprised of researchers, academics, gamers, students, VR enth…
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…
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Symposium: The Changing Landscape of Education and ITE in Aotearoa
24 Jun 2024
Friday 30 August, 9.30am–3.30pm — Community Engagement Hub Rehua 108, Ilam Campus
Co-hosted by Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) and Te Kaupeka Ako Faculty of Education, this symposium brings together teachers, principals, academics and educators to draw on educational philosophy and theory to address topics of interest for practitioners in schools and centres…
Agora Archive — Columns
Steve Bannon’s Ideological Juggernaut
20 Jun 2024
Zachary B. Wolf described a recent conservative gathering featuring Steve Bannon as speaker. ‘Are we at war?’ Bannon demanded of the crowd, his voice slicing through the air. ‘Is this a political war to the knife?’ The phrase, steeped in historical resonance, harks back to a pro-slavery newspaper fr…
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From West to East
14 Jun 2024
1. The Decline and Backsliding of Liberal Democracy The decline and backsliding of liberal democracy, often referred to as ‘democratic backsliding,’ is a phenomenon where countries experience a gradual decline in the quality of their democratic institutions and practices. This trend is characterised…
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The Emerging International Order: Debating Polarity in Global Politics
11 Jun 2024
1: How many superpowers are there in today’s global politics? In today’s global politics, the most common perception is that there are two primary superpowers: the United States and China. This dyad is often referred to as a ‘bipolar’ world order, where these two nations are considered to have the g…
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The Pentecostalisation of Donald Trump
3 Jun 2024
The former president, defiant and unyielding, his signature bronzed face turning red before the cameras at Trump Tower, dismissed the legal process that made him a felon with a wave of his tiny hand. ‘Rigged,’ he repeated, his voice echoing through the room, a declaration of his studied refusal to a…
Agora Archive — Columns
Nuclear Geopolitics in the Asia-Pacific
1 Jun 2024
Introduction The Pacific region has been a geopolitical theatre of complex and multifaceted nuclear politics, marked by key milestones that have shaped the trajectory of international relations. This represents a period of seventy-five years that has passed through a related series of events marked…
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The Hedge-Fund Driven Neoliberal University in a Time of Crisis
27 May 2024
There can be little doubt that neoliberalism has undermined, if not crippled, the notion of higher education as a democratic public sphere – a protective and courageous space where students can speak, write, and act from a position of agency and informed judgment. This should be a space where educat…
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Surviving the Age of Gloom
22 May 2024
The post-truth zeitgeist relentlessly haunts us as meaning becomes ever more detached from representation, as signs now refer not to conceptually settled ‘signified’ meanings but only to other signs, vanishing in an endless chain of time-worn signifiers devoid of inherent intelligibility. Such langu…
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The Dialectics of Revolution
17 May 2024
In the realm of philosophical discourse, dialectical philosophy stands apart from the individualistic rationality championed by the Enlightenment. Unlike the Enlightenment’s emphasis on solitary logical analysis, dialectics asserts that entities can only be comprehended in their relational context,…
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Educating for Aesthetic Experiences
10 May 2024
Laura D’Olimpio shares an excerpt from her new book The Necessity of Aesthetic Education: The Place of the Arts on the Curriculum (Bloomsbury, 2024). Educating for aesthetic experiences An aesthetic experience arises from engaging in a particular way – a way that is open and receptive to what is the…
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The Politic Rhetoric of Bloodbath Politics
10 May 2024
In 2020, during a remarkable display of spiritual hysteria, Paula White, the wackadoodle spiritual advisor to former President Trump, embarked on a proclamation that reverberated both with a maddening celestial invocation and unhinged theological assertion influenced by a ‘Moonies cult’ revelation o…