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Critical Realism as an Underpinning Philosophy
This chapter defines and explains the terms ontology and epistemology, discusses the development of the scientific method and the nature of...
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Tinkering with/in the Multicultural Science Education Debate: Towards Positing An(Other) Ontology
The purpose of this chapter is to address the ways in which ontology, as an absent presence, is always already (re)sha** science education....
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Unsettling Responsibility in Science Education Indigenous Science, Deconstruction, and the Multicultural Science Education Debate
This open access book engages with the response-ability of science education to Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature. Higgins deconstructs the ways...
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Critical Realism in the Social Sciences
Critical realism is a naturalist epistemology, one that is applicable across the sciences and the social sciences. Following the introduction in...
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New Forms of Society: New Forms of Assessment
In this chapter the argument is made that changing forms of society rely upon specific generative mechanisms and structures that support and make...
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Research Stages of the Practicum Study
This chapter forms the methodology chapter of the Practicum Study. It is arranged using the Step**-Stones model of research stages, as derived in...
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How Might Critical Realism Extend Our Understanding of Assessment?
Critical realism is an emergent school of thought. It has evolved through a number of phases since the 1970s, gaining followers and also critics...
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The Step**-Stones Model and the Worldview, Metaphor and Power of Social Objects (Womposo) Strategy
This chapter has three purposes. Firstly, it seeks to direct the post-graduate student and early career researcher towards various types of research...
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Toward a Systems Theory Approach to Mathematics Education
This chapter sets out a preliminary investigation of mathematics education using a theory of social systems of communication and individual...
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Continuing Bernstein: Social Realist Sociology of Education
This chapter introduces social realism as a perspective that has drawn upon Bernstein’s thinking about knowledge and connected it with...
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Unsettling Metaphysics in Science Education
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the relation between Western modern science and Indigenous ways-of-knowing-in-being as it manifests...
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Behind the Screens: Unpacking the Ideologies of Udacity Through Ideographs and Criticism
Critiquing the underlying ideologies embedded within artefacts often presents a formidable challenge, especially when those ideologies appear to be...
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Evaluating the Practicum Study and the Womposo Research Strategy
One rarely finds the full description of a research strategy presented in parallel with a research project that employs this strategy. The Practicum...
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Concluding Rhythms: To Dance
This chapter explores the ethics of being a bodily, identifiable, stratified self, but one that encompasses and engenders affectensity in dancing a...
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Embodiment Matters in Knowledge Building
In this paper, we begin a conversation with educators invested in develo** epistemic insight. We argue that generative artificial intelligence...
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Successful Practices of Leadership on School Improvement: A Case Study in a Private School in Dubai
This paper aimed to investigate successful practices of school leadership that lead to school improvement. To achieve this, the paper adopted the...
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Non-human Agency in International Students’ Learning Realities: A Choreography of Actor-Network Theory and Rhizomes
This chapter explores international students’ informal learningLearning experiences through the lenses of Deleuze & Guatarri’s rhizomeRhizome...
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Via Digitalis: From the Postdigital to the Hyperdigital
The way beyond the digital can be discovered, not outside, but rather in and through the digital at its highest point. Since its introduction, the...
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A Flat (Packed) Affect: Theorizing Pedagogies of Seriality in Unboxing and Assembly
This chapter considers the change in the role of the user to that of someone who assembles things, not unlike a set of a building blocks, flat-packed...