In this essay, by engaging with Günther Anders' treatise on "Apocalyptic Blindness" while drawing on Srécko Horvat's apocalypse as revelation, I offer four theses on the future of music education. I situate the future against the peace-building backdrop of contemporary music education through routinization and super-specialization…

After many years of dominant anti-utopianism, there has been a resurgent and fruitful interest in utopian thought across disciplines. In our uncertain times, many theorists call for a rethinking of what counts as a desirable future. We respond to this call from an interdisciplinary perspective on the interconnectedness, and potential common cause,…

Times of (post) health crisis, global unrest, and political turmoil, a reliance on conventional methods, which potentially lack radical imagination and future orientation, experimentation, and open-endedness, might not be enough. Furthermore, within the discourses of conventional qualitative inquiry, methodological subjects are often seen as…

This collective writing piece takes its points of departure from the chronotope - a spatio-temporal matrix that constitutes current cultural experiences, which are subjected to dialogic philosophical analysis. Doing so renders unconscious or abstract elements as 'profoundly spatial and concrete' (Bakhtin, 1981, p. 208, emphasis in original),…

Imagination and play are often relegated to specific times of the school day (e.g., recess) or pushed entirely into after school hours (e.g., extracurriculars), carefully separated from subject area instruction. How often has it been said that "playtime is over "or that "it's time to buckle down and get serious" when it comes…

Purpose: This study aims to synthesize existing findings in the gig worker training literature and identify the training rationales adopted by these studies, using a synthesized framework of organizational training rationales. This study seeks to delineate the rationales behind gig worker training and highlight unaddressed training needs within…

This article draws on inspirations from Pierre Bourdieu, Niklas Luhmann, and Hans-Georg Gadamer to think about the future of our profession in light of the notions of social spaces, social systems, and a history of effect. I connect the thinking about this future to how it may be influenced by our reasons for being here, how we operate while we…

In this survey, we introduce and prompt an article collection--"Mathematics Education for Sustainable Futures"--which we are guest editing. The collection will comprise original research articles, written and published over a 2-year period. Recognising the collection title as making reference to what is an emerging area of research, in…

This paper considers educational futures from the perspective of social justice. It takes as its framework futures studies, which looks at what is probable (what is likely to happen), what is possible (what could happen), and what is preferable (what we would like to see/make happen). It also makes the case for science fiction as a method of…

This article features the beginnings of the first volume of an encyclopaedia dedicated to the discussion of inter-galactic pedagogical matters. There is much to learn about within and before these times of inter-galactic change and so there is much to consider for those interested in, and committed to, thinking the pedagogical. PEDAGOGICA…

What does it mean to teach, live, and imagine one's futures amidst a global pandemic? How to respond to the reality of unequal and overlapping crises, COVID-19 being one of them? Can alternative understandings of time help us create a more just post-pandemic university? Drawing on environmental humanities, disaster and critical time studies, in…

The cognitive theory of multimedia learning (Mayer, 2021, 2022), which seeks to explain how people learn academic material from words and graphics, has developed over the past four decades. Although the name and graphical representation of the theory have evolved over the years, the core ideas have been constant--dual channels (i.e., humans have…

This article aims to review and comment on the articles in this Special Issue and suggest directions for Singaporean evaluators to consider in the future. Based on the review, we found education evaluators in Singapore are familiar with up-to-date evaluation theories and approaches and successfully apply them. We also found that a substantial…

This paper explores the extent to which our past and present knowledge can help us to be future-ready, and suggests a theoretical basis for future-readiness. Drawing on the thought of the Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi, it is argued that future-readiness is primarily about having an open and flexible mindset where one responds appropriately to…

For ages, humankind was unsuccessful in accomplishing their aspirations practically, though sometimes they were able to achieve the same theoretically. However, this gap was bridged by many groundbreaking inventions. One such invention is the World Wide Web. The web, which is often described as an evolving network of networks, has constantly been…