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Collective Intellectualities
Author: Alex Means and Amy Sojot
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Collective Intellectualities is a program that explores issues related to education within our world today. Convivial discussions with a diverse group of scholars, from different places in the world, engaging with different theoretical traditions, from multiple epistemological viewpoints on education, culture, politics, ecology, and related issues. Hosted by Amy Sojot and Alex Means. We are produced in conjunction with the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, their new digital venture PESA Agora, and the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory. || Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia - https://pesa.org.au/ || PESA Agora - https://pesaagora.com/ || Educational Philosophy and Theory - https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rept20/current
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Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ken’s work covers neoliberal privatization, politics of education, culture, and subjectivity in education through critical theory and critical educational tradition. He joins us on this episode of Collective Intellectualities to chat about his new book, The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers, out now on MIT Press. Links to se...
Andrew Gibbons, Professor at the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, joins us on this episode to discuss his work in relation to philosophy, policy, science fiction, and care. His research creatively and distinctively focuses on philosophy of education and growing teacher education programs that engage academic and community relationships beyond disciplinary boundaries. Andrew is involved in several professional organizations, including Association of Visual Pedagogies a...
For today’s episode, we’ll be chatting with Neil Selwyn, who is a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. An internationally recognized scholar, Neil’s research focuses on digital education and technology. Neil’s recent projects explore data in schooling, digital labor, AI technologies, and sustainability in educational technology. Links to recent works: Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology (2023) in Learning, Media, and Technol...
For this episode, we are sharing Keita Takayama’s talk originally given during the Department of Educational Foundations’ Fall 2022 Colloquium speaker series. Keita is Professor/Director for the Global Education Office in the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan. His research examines the globalization of educational policy and knowledge from a decolonial/postcolonial perspective. In this talk, Keita provides a critical self-reflection of the work he does as a co-editor of tw...
Mark Featherstone joins us for this episode of Collective Intellectualities. Mark is Professor of Social and Political Theory at Keele University, UK. He is author of Tocqueville’s Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Theory (Routledge, 2007), Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Global Imaginary (Routledge, 2017), and editor of The Sociology of Debt (Policy, 2019), and Writing the Body Politic: A John O’Neill Reader (Routledge, 2019). He is also editor of Cultural P...
For this episode, we’re joined by Petar Jandrić, Derek R. Ford, Michael A. Peters, and Sarah Hayes to discuss two books published in 2022: Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (edited by Michael, Petar, and Sarah) and Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures (edited by Petar and Derek). We talk about bioinformational philosophy and biodigitalism, scholarly production within the knowledge economy, and what it means to think and act...
Jan McArthur, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, joins us to discuss her recent article, “Critical Theory in a Decolonial Age,” in Educational Philosophy and Theory, which is also available on PESA Agora. Informed by critical theory and particularly Adorno, Jan’s work examines education, social justice, assessment, and higher education. Links to Jan’s work: Critical theory in a decolonial age (2021) in Educational Philosophy and Theory ht...
Wayne Au, Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington-Bothell, joins us this episode to discuss the tensions present in the practice of multicultural and social justice education in the contemporary moment. Wayne’s scholarship and activism engages issues of critical education theory, race and class in schooling, and related educational policies, such as those policies that give rise to high-stakes testing and impact school curriculum. Wayne is an editor of t...
Recognized internationally as a preeminent philosopher of education, Michael A. Peters’ contributions to the field are extensive, including over a hundred published books and more than several hundred articles or chapters. In addition to his current roles as Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University, Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Auckland, he is also Editor-in-Chief for...
Jairus Grove joins us this episode to discuss his book, Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. A radical departure from mainstream international relations, the book examines geopolitics through ecological theory while also contemplating on our current condition. Currently the Director of the Hawai‘i Research Center for Futures Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Jairus chats with us about philosophy, political viole...
This episode has been in the CI vault for a while and we are excited to share it with everyone at this time. David Kupferman, Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Learning at Minnesota State University Moorhead, joins us on this episode to chat about educational futures, science fiction, and neoliberalism. Stay tuned for the first volume of a special issue, Educational Futures, edited by David for Policy Futures in Education, coming out this fall. Links to David’s work: I, Robot Teac...
For this episode, we chat with Peter Hershock, Director of the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP) and Education Specialist at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Trained in Asian and comparative philosophy, his research and writing draw on Buddhist conceptual resources to reflect on and address contemporary issues of global concern. He has authored or edited more than a dozen books, including a new book that we will be discussing today: Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward...
Georgina Stewart, Associate Professor in Te Kura Mātauranga School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, joins us to discuss language, indigenous knowledges, and philosophy of education. We first revisit Georgina’s 2017 article, “What does ‘indigenous’ mean, for me?”; with over 70,000 views, it is one of the most read articles in Educational Philosophy and Theory. We then discuss Georgina’s work on Maori philosophy, hybridity, and typologies. Georgina’s latest book, Maori Philoso...
Liz Jackson, Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, joins us this episode to discuss working as a philosopher of education during our current moment. Liz has published over 100 works including three recent books, Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong (2021), Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (2020), and Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (2019) which received the American Educational Studies As...
An internationally renowned writer and cultural critic, Henry Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. He has authored or co-authored over 67 books, written several hundred scholarly articles, delivered more than 250 public lectures, been a regular contributor to print, television, and radio news media outlets, and is one of the ...
Alder Keleman Saxena, an Assistant Research Professor in the Anthropology department at Northern Arizona University, joins us for this episode to discuss Feral Atlas: The More than Human Anthropocene, an interactive and interdisciplinary digital research project edited by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou. An environmental anthropologist whose research examines agricultural diversity and human social relationships, especially via food cultures, her work also...
Tyson E. Lewis is a professor of art education in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas. His research interests include educational philosophy, critical theory, phenomenological research methods, and aesthetics. He is the author of Education Out of Bounds: Rethinking Imagination in a Posthuman Age (2010), The Aesthetics of Education: Theatre, Curiosity, and Politics in the Work of Jacques Rancière and Paulo Freire (2012), On Study: Giorgio Agamben and Educatio...
Nicole Nguyen, an Associate Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of Illinois-Chicago, joins us this episode to talk about security, geopolitics, and education. Through ethnography, her research critically examines national security issues, war, and militarization in US schools. She has two books out both on University of Minesota press: A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland security in US public schools, which received the 2017 Globe Book Award from the American Assoc...
This episode we chat with Gert Biesta. Gert has made integral contributions to the fields of education theory and the philosophy of education. Currently a Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University, Ireland and a Professor of Educational Theory and Pedagogy at the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, UK, much of his work critically examines questions of democracy in education and education research....