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Alterity and Emotions: Heterogeneous Learning Conditions and Embodiment
According to the phrase ‘meet the learners where they are’, learning depends on a learner’s personal, social and cultural preconditions. In a...
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Negotiating senses of belonging and identity across education spaces
A multitude of educational programs attempt to facilitate young people’s engagement with ideas and practices of active citizenship. For young...
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Reflecting on Identity Metamorphoses
This chapter tackles the important and complex issue of identity, which has been described as central to interculturality—inter- and -ity—describing...
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Identity, Self, and Liberation
This chapter explores what it means to craft an identity. It begins with the idea of identity itself, referencing James Baldwin’s and Emmanuel...
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Modelling spirituality: language, love, alterity and transcendence
Spirituality may not be able to be defined precisely but a number of models can be proposed which all recognise key sensitivities and experiences....
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Beyond the margins of metanarrativity: an inquiry on prejudice, decoloniality and cross-cultural discourse
This paper sets upon the elaboration of two inter-related enquiries: What do being and otherness look like beyond the margins of metanarrativity?...
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Identity and Leadership in Education
Starting out in Sound Design and Music Production, a creative career that continues to this day alongside research and consultancy projects, I have...
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Who Feels It Knows It! Alterity, Identity and ‘Epistemological Privilege’: Challenging White Privilege from a Black Perspective Within the Academy
The chapter considers some of the contemporary issues faced by Black academics, denoting our constant struggles for equal and fair treatment, thereby...
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Reconceptualization of borderlands, borders, and spaces within a multi-theoretical perspective
Too often, we associate the idea of borderlands as geographical areas that divide one state or country from another. Such a narrow view of...
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The Skin as Seen: Thinking Through Racialized Subjectivities and Pedagogy with Levinas
From a Levinasian perspective, the interaction between two people is an ethical encounter, a face-to-face interaction that calls the subject into...
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Digital Natives or Digital Castaways? Processes of Constructing and Reconstructing Young People’s Digital Identity and Their Educational Implications
The term digital natives was coined a few years ago, compared to what could be digital immigrants. And we have been using them to explain the...
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Exploring Modern Language Teachers’ Professional Identity Through Visual Self-Representations of Professional Lifelong Journeys
Research into language teacher identity often refers to individuals’ self-position as teachers, their affiliations to different aspects of their work...
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Spirituality as Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural education (SMSC). Using Julia Kristeva to rethink a spirituality of education
Spirituality is impossible to define, but numerous, common themes can be discerned. I suggest a model of spirituality based upon the oeuvre of Julia...
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“Don’t Be Your Selfie”: The Pedagogical Importance of the Otherness in the Construction of Teenagers’ Identity
This work aims to discover the pedagogical importance of otherness in the construction of the identity of teenagers. To do this, we will use the work...
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Ruminations on Rocks: Ethical and Ecological Turns in Witnessing
This chapter examines ethical obligations of bearing witness to ecological devastation and nonhuman worlds in the Anthropocene. A meditation on rocks...
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Authenticity, Accuracy, and Respect in Picturebooks About Africa: Implications for Pedagogy in the United States
This is a conceptual paper that explores critiquing picturebooks set in Africa. The paper is grounded in BlackCrit (Black Critical Theory) and Racial...
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Ruminations on Rocks: Ethical and Ecological Turns in Witnessing
This chapter examines ethical obligations of bearing witness to ecological devastation and nonhuman worlds in the Anthropocene. A meditation on rocks...
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“Passing On” and the Heritage of Democracy-to-Come
The educational in education is intricately woven through the work of inheriting and “passing on” the significance of a worldly repertoire to the...
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The Anthropological Dynamics Revealed in the Use of Social Networks and What We Can Do from Pedagogy
In the following pages, the phenomenon of social networks will be explained from an anthropological point of view. In the first place, it will be...
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Education for Emancipation and Disrupting Colonial Legacies in Morocco
This chapter defines educational knowledge as the range of facts, information, concepts, principles, approaches, laws, theories, strategies, and...