Collective Intellectualities

Kenneth J. Saltman is Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. Ken's work covers neoliberal privatization, politics of education, culture, and subjectivity in education through critical theory and critical educational tradition. He joins us on this episode of Collective Intellectualities to chat about his new book, The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers, out now on MIT Press.Links to selected works:The Alienation of Fact: Digital Educational Privatization, AI, and the False Promise of Bodies and Numbers (MIT Press, 2022)https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544368/the-alienation-of-fact/The Disaster of Resilience: Education, Digital Privatization, and Profiteering (Bloomsbury, 2023)https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/disaster-of-resilience-9781350342439/

Andrew Gibbons, Professor at the School of Education at Auckland University of Technology, joins us on this episode to discuss his work in relation to philosophy, policy, science fiction, and care. His research creatively and distinctively focuses on philosophy of education and growing teacher education programs that engage academic and community relationships beyond disciplinary boundaries. Andrew is involved in several professional organizations, including Association of Visual Pedagogies and Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA), and was recently named a PESA Fellow.Links to recent works:Childhood, Science Fiction, and Pedagogy: Children Ex Machina (edited by David W. Kupferman and Andrew Gibbons, Springer Nature, 2019)https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6210-1 Love and Education Beyond the Event Horizon: An Apology to Christopher Nolan (2023) in Journal for the Philosophical Study of Education, vol. 4https://research.library.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=phil_research Expressions of Wai in ECE: Te Wai Pounamu. National Report to International Pilot Project 2022: Wash from the Start—Local Conditions for Children's Access to Waterhttps://www.canterbury.ac.nz/media/documents/education-and-health/research/CWBI3455_ECE_Wai_Project_Report_WEB-(1).pdf The Negation of Babysitting: Deconstruction and Care in Early Childhood (2020) in Global Studies of Childhood, vol. 10, issue 4, as part of the themed issue, “Philosophies, Politics, and Pedagogies of Care in the Early Years”https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/gsca/10/4 

For today's episode, we'll be chatting with Neil Selwyn, who is a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. An internationally recognized scholar, Neil's research focuses on digital education and technology. Neil's recent projects explore data in schooling, digital labor, AI technologies, and sustainability in educational technology.Links to recent works:Digital degrowth: toward radically sustainable education technology (2023) in Learning, Media, and Technologyhttps://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2022.2159978The future of AI and education: Some cautionary notes (2022) in European Journal of Educationhttps://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12532Ed-Tech Within Limits: Anticipating educational technology in times of environmental crisis (2021) in E-Learning and Digital Mediahttps://doi.org/10.1177/20427530211022951

For this episode, we are sharing Keita Takayama's talk originally given during the Department of Educational Foundations' Fall 2022 Colloquium speaker series. Keita is Professor/Director for the Global Education Office in the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan. His research examines the globalization of educational policy and knowledge from a decolonial/postcolonial perspective. In this talk, Keita provides a critical self-reflection of the work he does as a co-editor of two international journals in education and the tensions and contradictions that arise in relation to his own scholarship.

Mark Featherstone joins us for this episode of Collective Intellectualities. Mark is Professor of Social and Political Theory at Keele University, UK. He is author of Tocqueville's Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Theory (Routledge, 2007), Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Global Imaginary (Routledge, 2017), and editor of The Sociology of Debt (Policy, 2019), and Writing the Body Politic: A John O'Neill Reader (Routledge, 2019). He is also editor of Cultural Politics (Duke University Press). We chat about the disenchanted university, themes of utopia and dystopia, and how growing up in Hull in the 1970s influenced the direction of his research.Links to select works:Tocqueville's Virus: Utopia and Dystopia in Western Social and Political Theory (Routledge, 2007)https://www.routledge.com/Tocquevilles-Virus-Utopia-and-Dystopia-in-Western-Social-and-Political/Featherstone/p/book/9780415542470Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Global Imaginary (Routledge, 2017)https://www.routledge.com/Planet-Utopia-Utopia-Dystopia-and-Globalisation/Featherstone/p/book/9780367864255The Sociology of Debt (editor, Policy, 2019)https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-sociology-of-debtWriting the Body Politic: A John O'Neill Reader (editor, Routledge, 2019)https://www.routledge.com/Writing-the-Body-Politic-A-John-ONeill-Reader/Featherstone-Kemple/p/book/9780367726805

For this episode, we're joined by Petar Jandrić, Derek R. Ford, Michael A. Peters, and Sarah Hayes to discuss two books published in 2022: Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies (edited by Michael, Petar, and Sarah) and Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures (edited by Petar and Derek). We talk about bioinformational philosophy and biodigitalism, scholarly production within the knowledge economy, and what it means to think and act postdigitally. Petar is Professor at the Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, Derek is Associate Professor of Education Studies at DePauw, Sarah is Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Education Observatory at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and we welcome back Michael, Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Normal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois, from episode 11 to the show. The conversation from this episode was developed into an article, “The Postdigital-Biodigital Revolution,” in Postdigital Science and Education.Links to works discussed:Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies, edited by Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić, Sarah Hayes (2022, Springer)https://link.springer.com/book/9783030950057Postdigital Ecopedagogies: Genealogies, Contradictions, and Possible Futures, edited by Petar Jandrić, Derek R. Ford (2022, Springer)https://link.springer.com/book/9783030972615The Postdigital-Biodigital Revolution (2022) in Postdigital Science and Educationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00338-9

Jan McArthur, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, joins us to discuss her recent article, “Critical Theory in a Decolonial Age,” in Educational Philosophy and Theory, which is also available on PESA Agora. Informed by critical theory and particularly Adorno, Jan's work examines education, social justice, assessment, and higher education. Links to Jan's work:Critical theory in a decolonial age (2021) in Educational Philosophy and Theoryhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.1934670https://pesaagora.com/epat/critical-theory-in-a-decolonial-age/Towards a Moral University: Horkheimer's commitment to the ‘vicissitudes of human fate' (2019) in Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education, 1(3), 131–151.https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/plg/ptihe/2019/00000001/00000003/art00008Theodor Adorno: restless, fractured and uncomfortable thought (2020) in Philosophers of the University, edited by R. Barnett & A. Fulford (Springer).https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31061-5_3The inclusive university: A critical theory perspective using a recognition-based approach (2021) in Social Inclusion, 9(3).https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v9i3.4122Rethinking authentic assessment: work, wellbeing and society (2022) in Higher Education Online Firsthttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-022-00822-y

Wayne Au, Professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington-Bothell, joins us this episode to discuss the tensions present in the practice of multicultural and social justice education in the contemporary moment. Wayne's scholarship and activism engages issues of critical education theory, race and class in schooling, and related educational policies, such as those policies that give rise to high-stakes testing and impact school curriculum. Wayne is an editor of the leading social justice publication Rethinking Schools and has authored or edited countless books and articles, including several that we discuss in this episode. Follow Wayne on Twitter @profwayneau.Links to select works discussed:A Pedagogy of Insurgency: Teaching and Organizing for Radical Racial Justice in Our Schools (2021) in Educational Studieshttps://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2021.1878181A Marxist Education: Learning to Change the World (2018, Haymarket Books)https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1153-a-marxist-educationWhen Multicultural Education Is Not Enough (2017) in Multicultural Perspectiveshttps://doi.org/10.1080/15210960.2017.1331741Teaching Under the New Taylorism: High‐Stakes Testing and the Standardization of the 21st Century Curriculum (2011) in Journal of Curriculum Studieshttps://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2010.521261Unequal by Design: High-Stakes Testing and the Standardization of Inequality (2009, Routledge)https://www.routledge.com/Unequal-By-Design-High-Stakes-Testing-and-the-Standardization-of-Inequality/Au-Au/p/book/9780415990714

Recognized internationally as a preeminent philosopher of education, Michael A. Peters' contributions to the field are extensive, including over a hundred published books and more than several hundred articles or chapters. In addition to his current roles as Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing Normal University, Professor Emeritus at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at University of Auckland, he is also Editor-in-Chief for Educational Philosophy and Theory and Co-Editor-in-Chief for Beijing International Review of Education. Michael joins us this episode to discuss the influence of Wittgenstein and Foucault on his work as well as recent research that examines knowledge socialism, post-truth, conspiracy, and avenues for peer production.Visit Michael's website at www.michaeladrianpeters.com and find links to selected recent works below.Pandemic Education and Viral Politics(2021, Routledge, with Tina Besley)https://www.routledge.com/Pandemic-Education-and-Viral-Politics/Peters-Besley/p/book/9780367635404 The Far-Right, Education and Violence: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume IX (2021, Routledge, with Tina Besley)https://www.routledge.com/The-Far-Right-Education-and-Violence-An-Educational-Philosophy-and-Theory/Peters-Besley/p/book/9780367562014 Knowledge SocialismThe Rise of Peer Production: Collegiality, Collaboration, and Collective Intelligence(2020, Springer, with Tina Besley, Petar Jandrić, and Xudong Zhu)https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8126-3 Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem of Rationality(2020, Springer)https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-15-9972-9 

Jairus Grove joins us this episode to discuss his book, Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. A radical departure from mainstream international relations, the book examines geopolitics through ecological theory while also contemplating on our current condition. Currently the Director of the Hawai‘i Research Center for Futures Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Jairus chats with us about philosophy, political violence, creativity and care, affirmation of difference, and the role of the university. Links to Jairus Grove's work:Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World (2019), Duke University Presshttps://www.dukeupress.edu/savage-ecology Bringing the world back in: Revolutions and relations before and after the quantum event (2020) in Security Dialoguehttps://doi.org/10.1177/0967010620940113 From geopolitics to geotechnics: global futures in the shadow of automation, cunning machines, and human speciation (2020) in International Relationshttps://doi.org/10.1177/0047117820948582 

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 Theoryhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2020.1793534(Nothing But) Futures (2020) in ACCESShttps://pesaagora.com/access/nothing-but-futures/Educational Futures and Postdigital Science (2021) in Postdigital Science and Educationhttps://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/9781138351110Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotionshttps://www.cambridge.org/core/books/beyond-virtue/023FE0DC80C1D2275B20A5907FC99E30Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Konghttps://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/ 

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.orgInterested 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 

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/9780367363260Lewis 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 

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/9780367565527The Rediscovery of Teaching. (2017). London/New York: Routledge.https://www.routledge.com/The-Rediscovery-of-Teaching/Biesta/p/book/9781138670709Obstinate Education: Reconnecting School and Society. (2019). Leiden: Brill | Sense.https://brill.com/view/title/55081Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction. (2020). London: Bloomsbury.https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/educational-research-9781350097971/