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Antecedents of Student Self-Formation in Social Theory and Educational Philosophy: What Do They Tell Us About Structure and Agency?
One of the main functions of higher education is ‘subjectification’, the process whereby students emerge as self-determining persons. The...
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Disabled, Vulnerable or Functionally Hindered? Deviations and Normality Between Personal Characteristics and Context Conditions
The theme of this chapter is deviance and normality, a core aspect of inclusion in school and society. The traditional special education angle has a...
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Are primary education teachers trained for the use of the technology with disabled students?
Incorporating information and communication technology (ICT) in inclusive classrooms requires competent teachers, both technological and pedagogical....
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Serious Play: Inflecting the Multicultural Science Education Debate Through and for (Socratic) Dialogue
The purpose of this chapter is to differentially revisit the multicultural science education debate, a central curricular location that acts as both...
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The Resilience of Native-Speakerism: A Realist Perspective
Why are some ideologies more resilient than other ideologies, which gradually fade in the background of history? In this opening chapter, I provide a...
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A Collective Feminist Ethics of Care with Talanoa: Embodied Time in the ShiFting Spaces of Women’s Academic Work
Institutional structures of Australian universities are increasingly characterised by unsustainable practices of accelerated time and work...
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East Africa and Contemporary Muslim Education: The Unholy Triple Alliance Conundrum
This chapter is a theoretical discourse about East Africa and contemporary Islamic education. Working concepts are given in context and difference...
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Response-ability Revisited: Towards Re(con)figuring Scientific Literacy
The purpose of this chapter is to revisit and expand upon the concept of response-ability, shifting from the deconstructive homework of previous...
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Understanding Digital Inequality: A Theoretical Kaleidoscope
The pandemic affected more than 1.5 billion students and youth, and the most vulnerable learners were hit hardest, making digital inequality in...
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Relations In/Between Content and Expression: Moving Beyond “This is a Cow and a Cow Says Moo”
The concept of expression is often confined to a representational function, a transcription of something that holds ‘real’ existence outside of the...
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Global Citizenship Education in Asia: Moving Towards Decolonization
Global citizenship education (GCE) is an educational paradigm that is both ubiquitous and contested. Education reform efforts have reflected...
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Science Curriculum and Sustainability
Our planet has been transformed by human activity. Recent reports from the United Nations Environment Programme report, Making Peace with Nature,...
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The End of Criticism Producing Unconscious: Non-personal Activist Academic Writing
My focus is transcorporeality, affects and gut feelings and/as academic writing. I ask how writing as a technical object, can become an ordinary path...
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Key to Terminology
This chapter is the core of the book. It is the place from which all other chapters sprouted wings and took flight. As such, the chapter defines...
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Building on Funds of Knowledge: A Basis for Reconceptualising Early Childhood Care and Education in the Caribbean
This chapter outlines the need to reconceptualise early childhood development in the Caribbean by building on the funds of knowledge of key Early...
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Working the In-Betweens of Material Expression
A cuboid of Clay sits on Table, freshly cut from its block by Wire, this, its immediate history, demonstrated by the smoothness of its faces...
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Process of Racialisation, Creation of a Single Narrative and Restoration of Memory
This chapter challenges the ontology of a single definitive narrative on race through a systematic process of racialisation over centuries. It...
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Knowledge Beyond the Metropole: Curriculum, Rurality and the Global South
This chapter examines the traditional questions of curriculum inquiry, ‘What, and whose, knowledge is of most worth’? from the perspective of the...
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What Is Care?
In this opening chapter, we draw on our readings to propose a working definition of ‘care’ to underpin the remainder of the book. We examine the...
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A Posthumanist Perspective on Dementia
This chapter introduces those posthuman ideas that we have found most useful in our research with people with dementiadementia. These include: ‘thing...