Collective Intellectualities

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 Teacher (2020) in Educational Philosophy and Theory
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2020.1793534

(Nothing But) Futures (2020) in ACCESS
https://pesaagora.com/access/nothing-but-futures/

Educational Futures and Postdigital Science (2021) in Postdigital Science and Education
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-021-00236-6

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 a More Humane Future (2021), out now on Bloomsbury Publishing.

Link to Buddhism and Intelligent Technology: Toward a More Humane Future (2021)

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/buddhism-and-intelligent-technology-9781350182288/

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 Philosophy: Indigenous Thinking from Aotearoa, is out now on Bloomsbury Publishing.

Links to Georgina’s work discussed:

Maori Philosophy: Indigenous Thinking from Aotearoa 

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/maori-philosophy-9781350101654

“What does ‘indigenous’ mean, for me?”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2017.1302050

“From both sides of the indigenous-settler hyphen in Aotearoa New Zealand”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2016.1204904

“A Typology of Pākehā Whiteness in Education”

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714413.2020.1773177

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 Association’s Critic’s Choice Book Award in 2020. Additionally, Liz is the immediate past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia.

Links to Liz’s work:

Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education
https://www.routledge.com/Questioning-Allegiance-Resituating-Civic-Education/Jackson/p/book/9781138351110

Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/beyond-virtue/023FE0DC80C1D2275B20A5907FC99E30

Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong
https://www.routledge.com/Contesting-Education-and-Identity-in-Hong-Kong/Jackson/p/book/9780367672829

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 most cited Canadian academics working in any area of Humanities research. His latest book is Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis out on Bloomsbury Publishing. 

Visit his website at https://www.henryagiroux.com/ and check out the link to Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy below:

Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis (2021). Bloomsbury Publishing https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/race-politics-and-pandemic-pedagogy-9781350184442/ 

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 Educational Potentiality (2013), Inoperative Learning: A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities (2017), and Walter Benjamin’s Anti-Fascist Education: From Riddles to Radio (2020). 

Links to Tyson’s Work:

Studio-D Project. https://onstead.cvad.unt.edu/studio-d 

Lewis T. and Kraehe, A. (2020). Rise: Emergent Strategies for Reclaiming Joy and Agency Against Neofascist and White Supremacist Assaultive Speech. Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education. Volume 37. https://jcrae.art.arizona.edu/index.php/jcrae/article/view/161 

Lewis, T. (2020). Walter Benjamin’s Anti-Fascist Education: From Riddles to Radio. New York: SUNY Press. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6842-walter-benjamins-antifascist-ed.aspx 

Lewis, T. (2017). Inoperative Learning: A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Inoperative-Learning-A-Radical-Rewriting-of-Educational-Potentialities/Lewis/p/book/9780367363260

Lewis T. and Valk, S. (2020). Educational realism: Defining Exopedagogy as the Choreography of Swarm Intelligence. Educational Philosophy and Theory. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2020.1803831 

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 explores human ecologies and the social and material implications. We chat about Feral Atlas, the Anthropocene, pedagogy, and finding different ways to reconfigure research and conceptual habits that may be insufficient to adequately address the challenges of the Anthropocene.

Be sure to visit Feral Atlas! www.feralatlas.org

Interested in the topics discussed in this episode such as long-term ethnography and creative collaborations? Check out Jennifer Deger’s recent book, Phone & Spear: A Yuta Anthropology, available via MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/phone-spear 

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 Association of Geographers, and most recently, her 2019 book, Suspect communities: Anti-Muslim racism and the domestic war on terror. 

Links to Nicole Nguyen’s books:

A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools. (2016). University of Minnesota Press.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/a-curriculum-of-fear 

Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror. (2019). University of Minnesota Press.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/suspect-communities 

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. 

Visit his website at www.gertbiesta.com and check out links to selected works below:

World-centred Education. (In Press/2021). London/New York: Routledge. 

https://www.routledge.com/World-Centred-Education-A-View-for-the-Present/Biesta/p/book/9780367565527

The Rediscovery of Teaching. (2017). London/New York: Routledge.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Rediscovery-of-Teaching/Biesta/p/book/9781138670709

Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society. (2019). Leiden: Brill | Sense.

https://brill.com/view/title/55081

Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction. (2020). London: Bloomsbury.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/educational-research-9781350097971/