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PESA Call for Abstracts Extended until July 1.
14 Jul 2026
Good news! Due to popular demand abstract submission deadlines for abstracts have been extended to 1 July. Full 3500-word papers for accepted full papers remain due by 22 July. We warmly encourage contributors to use the extra time to prepare and submit their proposals.
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Special Issue of Sex Education - Preparing Educators for Relationships and Sexuality Education: Critical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Professional Development
14 Jul 2026
This special issue invites contributions that examine formal preparation routes, continuing professional development programmes, and practice-based pedagogic innovations designed for those who teach relationships and sexuality education (RSE) as a distinct subject or area of work. Foregrounding teac…
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Call for Proposals: Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education
14 Jul 2026
Scholars at Risk documents nearly four hundred attacks on the global academic community, including extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and imprisonment to silence scholars for political dissent in teaching or research. In multiple contexts, legislation threatens faculty with dismissal for…
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EPAT CfP: Memory, meaning, and autoethnographic inquiry as epistemological sources: Sitting with the crisis of higher education
14 Jul 2026
Academic work is often situated within discourses of struggle (Evans & Nixon, 2015) and crisis (Fleming, 2021; Kidd, 2021), in which academics are subjected to the strain of marketisation and increasing competitiveness in higher education (HE). In practice, this trend has resulted in increased press…
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Call for Abstracts - PESA Conference 2026
14 Jul 2026
6–10 December 2026 — Naarm / Melbourne — University of Melbourne @ Faculty of Education
We're excited to share that the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA) Conference 2026 is now open for abstract submissions. Naarm / Melbourne — University of Melbourne @ Faculty of Education 6–10 December 2026 This year’s theme: Ethical thought-work and parrhesia in educational ideol…
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EPAT CfA: African philosophy of education: Thinking from the South
12 Feb 2026
March 31, 2026
Across the African continent and its diasporas, philosophies of education continue to be (re)imagined through creative engagements with local epistemologies, languages, and ethical traditions. This special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT), African Philosophy of Education: Thinking f…
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PESA Conference Panel Featured on ABC Radio National’s The Philosopher’s Zone
23 Jan 2026
A panel discussion recorded at the 2025 PESA Conference in Perth will feature as the opening episode of The Philosopher’s Zone for the new year on ABC Radio National. The panel, convened and recorded by Laura D'Olimpio, was held in conversation with David Rutledge, host of The Philosopher’s Zone, an…
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…
Agora Archive — Columns
River of Minds: Neanderthal and Homo Sapiens’ First Contact – A Philosophical Novella
10 Nov 2025
Preface This novella, River of Minds, was born in a river valley of imagination, where memory, gesture and consciousness converge. It explores the encounters between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens, meditating on attention, memory and the emergence of interspecies awareness. The narrative was developed…
Agora Archive — Columns
Unbecoming? Aotearoa, He Ao Māori
23 Sep 2025
We need to keep discussing how biculturalism provokes and challenges education in Aotearoa New Zealand, and as philosophers of education, it’s appropriate for us to maintain a self-reflexive focus on our own discipline. This column continues investigating bicultural education in Aotearoa New Zealand…
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Call for Chapter Proposals: Edited Collection, Iris Murdoch and Education
25 Aug 2025
Deadline for Submission: 1st October 2025
Word Limit: 400-word chapter proposals (not including title, authors, affiliations, and references) Please submit your proposal to: Lesley Jamieson (LesleyPaige.Jamieson@upce.cz) About the edited collection: There has in the last 3 decades been a vibrant and rapidly growing scholarship focused on Ir…
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LOSING OUR SELVES? Education and the Self in Global Perspective
19 Aug 2025
8 of October 2025 15:30-18:00 (CET) — Online
What is the self, and how should education engage with it? Join us for Losing Our Selves?, the first in a new series of online research labs from the Global Philosophy of Education (GlobalPhilEd) project. This international collaboration brings together scholars from diverse philosophical traditions…
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Global Philosophy of Education
19 Aug 2025
(Abstracts) 15 of November 2025 (Conference) 19-20 of March 2026 — VU Amsterdam
This conference aims to establish the field of Global Philosophy of Education, understood as a research space and practice where central issues in philosophy of education are defined, discussed and researched jointly by philosophers working from different cultural and philosophical traditions and pe…
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CFP: Misinformation and Missing Information as a Global Challenge (edited collection)
19 Aug 2025
September 30, 2025 (Abstracts)
Misinformation and Missing Information as a Global Challenge -Explorations, Definitions, and Theoretical Perspectives Across Disciplines- Editors: Michaela Vogt (Bielefeld University, Germany) Amelie Labusch (Bielefeld University, Germany) Eleonor Kristoffersson (Örebro University, Sweden) Magnus Kr…
Agora Archive — Columns
The Ecology of AI Bad Code: Propagation of Error, Malignant Strains and Deviation of Values
24 Jul 2025
In a human-AI discussion, this paper, inspired by Bateson and Wittgenstein, examines the mind of AI and the possibility of AI being able to change and modify its code at will over many generations in an accelerated fashion. In these circumstances, the paper poses the question: how likely will it dev…
ACCESS Archive — Vol 45 2025
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…
Agora Archive — Columns
Work and Education
19 Jul 2025
1. Introduction: Automation and the Philosophical Crisis of Labour Work has long functioned as a central category in Western thought, linking subjectivity, social reproduction and moral value. In the 21st century, however, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and robotic proces…
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EPAT: Asian perspectives on democratic values: Philosophical reflections and educational implications
15 Jul 2025
30 August 2025
Democratic values such as respect, humility, equality, and responsibility are pivotal in shaping civic life and fostering social cohesion. While these values are often discussed in a Western context, their interpretation and application within Asian philosophical traditions present a rich and nuance…
Agora Archive — Columns
Gaza, War Crimes and the Ethics of Global Responsibility
6 Jul 2025
While the eyes of the world were diverted to the recent hostilities between Israel and Iran, Israel’s genocide has continued unabated in Gaza, including through the infliction of conditions of life that have created a deadly mix of hunger and disease, pushing the population past breaking point. (Agn…
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<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…