 | Kahembe, Joyce, and Jackson, Liz, Educational Assessment in Tanzania A Sociocultural Perspective, (Springer: Dordrecht) 2020This book examines teachers’ conceptions and practices of assessment in Tanzania. Adopting a sociocultural perspective, it reveals how Tanzanian teachers understand the role of assessment in relation to their classroom practices, community and other factors. The book determines that although teachers in Tanzania generally consider assessment to be useful for evaluating and monitoring learning, improving student performance and for accountability, their assessment practices are rarely seen as directly supporting student learning; it is not that teachers do not know how to implement the mandated assessment reforms. Instead, they are reluctant to adopt and embrace the reforms because they consider them to be contradictory to their teaching roles, and overly burdensome, if not implausible, given the physical, economic and cultural contexts of teaching and learning. |
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 | Jackson, Liz, Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong, (Routledge: London) 2021This text examines the intersection of youth civic engagement, identity, and protest in Hong Kong, through the lens of education. It explores how education and identity have been protested in Hong Kong, historically and today, and the mark that such contestations have left on education. Many people, particularly outside Hong Kong, were astonished by youth participation in the Umbrella Movement of 2013–2014, and the anti-extradition law protests in 2019. These protests have caused people to consider what has changed in Hong Kong over time, and what education has to do with youth civic engagement and political expression. |
 | Hager, Paul and Beckett, David, The Emergence of Complexity: Rethinking Education as a Social Science, (Springer) 2019 |
| Ruyu Hung, Cultivation of Self in East Asian Philosophy of Education, (Routledge) 2019This book provides exciting and significant inquiries into the cultivation of self in East Asian philosophy of education. |
| Gert Biesta, Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society, (Brill | Sense: Leiden) 2019What should the relationship between school and society be? Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society argues that education is not just there to give individuals, groups and societies what they want from it, but that education has a duty to resist. Education needs to be obstinate, not for the sake of being difficult, but in order to make sure that it can contribute to emancipation and democratisation. This requires that education always brings in the question whether what is desired from it is going to help with living life well, individually and collectively, on a planet that has a limited capacity for giving everything that is desired from it. |
 | Kamp, Annelies, Education Studies in Aotearoa: Key disciplines and emerging directions, (NZCER Press) 2019This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the core disciplines, and contemporary concerns, that inform the study of education in Aotearoa. As a collection, the work provides a critical account of education policy trajectories and speculates on their limits and possibilities in the changing social and political landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand in the first half of the 21st century. https://www.nzcer.org.nz/nzcerpress/education-studies-in-aotearoa |
| Lund, Birthe & Arndt, Sonja, The Creative University: Contemporary responses to the changing role of the University, (Brill/Sense: Leiden) 2019The concept behind the Creative University is about knowledge cultures, critical creative thinking and innovative learning processes, situating the university as flexible, open and responsive to contemporary educational ideologies. Its vision reflects world-wide interest in students' engagement with diverse knowledges that challenge and break with habitual actions and thought and elevates creativity as central to the design of new and innovative pedagogies. |
 | Thomas, Louise M., Reinertsen, Anne B., Academic Writing and Identity Constructions, (Palgrave Macmillan) 2019This book presents multiple cultural and contextual takes on working performances of academic/writer/thinker, both inside and outside the academy. With worldwide, seismic shifts taking place in both the contexts and terrains of universities, and subsequently the altering of what it means to write as an academic and work in academia, the editors and contributors use writing to position and re-position themselves as academics, thinkers and researchers. Using as a point of departure universities and academic/writing work contexts shaped by the increasing dominance of commodification, measurement and performativity, this volume explores responses to these evolving, shifting contexts. In response to the growing global interest in writing as performance, this book breaks new ground by theorizing multiple identity constructions of academic/writer/researcher; considering the possibilities and challenges of engaging in academic writing work in ways that are authentic and sustainable. This reflective and interdisciplinary volume will resonate with students and scholars of academic writing, as well as all those working to reconcile different facets of identity. |
 | Jackson, Liz & Peters, Michael A., Feminist Theory in Diverse Productive Practices: An EPAT Gender & Sexualities Reader, Volume VI, (Routledge) 2019Feminist Theory in Diverse Productive Practices is the second of two volumes examining gender and feminist theory in Educational Philosophy and Theory. This collection explores the difference that gender and sexual identities make both to theorizing and working in education and other fields. As the articles contained in this text span nearly 40 years of scholarship related to these issues, this volume sheds light on how feminist, gender, and sexuality theory has evolved within and beyond the field of philosophy of education over time. |
 | Jackson, Liz & Peters, Michael A., From ‘Aggressive Masculinity’ to ‘Rape Culture’: An EPAT Gender and Sexualities Reader, Volume V, (Routledge) 2019From ‘Aggressive Masculinity’ to ‘Rape Culture’ is the fifth volume in this series and explores the relationship between gender and sex roles and socialisation and education, foregrounding issues of inequity and different forms of oppression in various contexts. It tells a rich story of transformation of a field over nearly half a century, in relation to the theorisation of gender and sexuality in educational philosophy and theory. The transformation of this field is mapped on to broader social trends during the same period, enabling a better understanding of the potential role of educational philosophy and theory in developing feminist, queer, and related veins of scholarship in the future. |
 | Jackson, Liz, Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education, (Routledge) 2019Education about living in society and in the world is a vital task of schools. Yet such civic education is not always critically examined, and few among us have been encouraged to reflect on our civic education experiences. Around the world, one’s civic education most often looks like a black box. How it works is unclear. When human harm, violence, and oppression can be seen in a wide variety of contexts, it is worth critically examining civic education. Could it be that civic education is not playing a helpful role in society? Can it be done differently and better? As one reflects on the contemporary social world, it is helpful to examine the assumptions surrounding education for living together, to think about current modes and possible alternatives. Otherwise, one might end up promoting allegiance to civic and partisan entities which are themselves black boxes (the ‘nation’, the ‘people’), failing to notice when and how what goes on in civic education is morally questionable. |
 | Pham Lien, International Graduates Returning to Vietnam, (Springer : Singapore) 2019Discourses in international education have largely focused on economic and political imperatives, which emphasise institutional measures such as student mobility, international partnerships and alliances as evidence of efficiency and achievement. This book shifts that thinking to consider international education as a potentiality for ethical development. Combining Amartya Sen’s capability approach and Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social practices to conceptualise normative agency and situated freedom, the book examines returning Vietnamese international students’ involvement, or at least scope for agentic involvement, in their everyday practices, and, from that, understanding their empowerment as a process of personal and social change. |