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Mika, Carl Te Hira; Tiakiwai, Sarah-Jane – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2017
In the face of land confiscations and other forms of imperialism characteristic of the 19th century in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the second Maori King Tawhiao devised a number of sayings that seem at first glance to be entirely mythical. Highly metaphorical and poetic, they appear to refer, as Bakhtin would have it in his discussion of the epic, to a…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Figurative Language
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Le Grange, Lesley Lionel Leonard – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2011
Currently, global society is delicately poised on a civilisational threshold similar to that of the feudal era. This is a time when outmoded institutions, values, and systems of thought and their associated dogmas are ripe for transcendence by more relevant systems of organization and knowledge (Davidson, 2000). The foundations of the modern era…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Scholarship
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Gough, Noel – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2004
This paper is a narrative experiment inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's (1987) figuration of the rhizome. It is a textual assemblage of popular and academic representations of cyborgs that might question, provoke, and challenge some of the dominant discourses and assumptions of curriculum, teaching, and learning. Emboldened by Deleuze's penchant…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy