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John Locke: The Empirical Educator
John Locke is known as the founder of the philosophical school of empiricism. This school of thought is that knowledge must be gained through...
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Artificial Intelligence and the Aims of Education: Makers, Managers, or Inforgs?
The recent appearance of generative artificial intelligence (AI) platforms has been seen by many as disruptive for education. In this paper I attempt...
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Locating Sense of Place in the School Curriculum
Chapter 8, “Locating sense of place in the school curriculum”, begins with general reflections on curriculum, particularly in relation to the...
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Introduction
Chapter 1 “Introduction” begins by situating the author in both place and time, offering via a kind of memoir the history of his develo** sense of...
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Sense of Place and Identity
Chapter 3, “Sense of place and identity”, explores the relationship between sense of place and identity. It develops the idea that our individual...
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Stress adaptation and resilience of academics in higher education
Academics in higher education around the world indicate high levels of stress from multiple sources. The COVID-19 pandemic has only served to...
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The Problematics of Representing Sense of Place
Chapter 7 is entitled “The problematics of representing sense of place”. As indicated earlier, this book adopts a critically discursive framework. In...
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Indigeneity and Sense of Place
Chapter 4, “Indigeneity and sense of place” begins by addressing the problematic concept of indigeneity, noting that an official definition of...
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Decolonising Place
Chapter 5, “Decolonising place”, begins with an overview of the “colonisation project”, viewing it as a special case of dispossession, characterised...
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Michel de Montaigne: Education as Self-awareness and Autonomy
Despite the centuries that separate us from his work, Montaigne’s educational thought still has much to offer to the needs of our pluralistic and...
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Mattering Lyotard: From the Postmodern to the Sublime as the Condition of Education
Lyotard’s most well-known work in education, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, has been influential in relation to the performativity...
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Theorising Sense of Place
Chapter 2, “Theorising sense of place” begins with an overview of both place and space in order to clarify the distinction between these two central...
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The Geopolitics of Place: Framing Avenues for Activism
In the concluding chapter, “The geo-politics of place: Framing avenues for activism”, the preceding chapters are reflected on as conversation...
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Locating Sense of Place in Literary Studies
Chapter 6, “Locating sense of place in literary studies”, adventures on a traverse of literary criticism (or more generally literary studies) in...
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Critical Citizenship Versus ‘High Individualism’ in Education
This chapter highlights the challenge in a post-Covid-19 societal landscape that demands high levels of individual and community responsibility to...
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Raising an Indigenous academic community: a strength-based approach to Indigenous early career mentoring in higher education
This paper reports on Indigenous early career researchers’ experiences of mentoring in Australian higher education, with data drawn from a...
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Infancy and Childhood in Education: Lyotard’s Pedagogies of the Possible
This chapter traverses the cognate notions of infancy and childhood that can be viewed as as one of the most important developments in Lyotard’s...