In April 2020, during the COVID-19 Pandemic, New Zealand media reports revealed competing discourses of care in education. Specifically, the media narrated an apparent resistance to care evident in a primary and secondary teacher resistance to a return to school. While the resistance was clearly and explicitly concerned with care for teachers and…

The radical 'toolbox' of Deleuze and Guattari can equip us to investigate teacher education assemblages and teacher internship becomings. Three contributions of this paper comprise: a consideration of the refrain as an agile and underutilised education research concept; emergent listening, as an emerging theoretical framework in education; and…

The world, and the component parts that people generally take for granted about it are those moments put on pause, or, perhaps more accurately, peeled away, revealing something else entirely underneath. The world at the moment of suspension or peeling gives way to another world, or flashes thereof, however brief. To the author, nothing represents…

In the present article, I draw from research exploring five former Teach for America (TFA) teachers' emerging educational philosophies in light of their educational experiences and their TFA teacher preparation. For the present article, qualitative phenomenological interviews and critical discourse analysis of program documents were employed in…

Dewey's idea of the secondary school emerged during the first thirty years of his academic career as he responded to historical realities and contemporary changes in secondary education in the United States. His advocacy of applying subject matter to the life of the student and to the life of society, integrating subject matter, an expanded…

National styles of 'doing sociology' exist, all celebrating respective 'founding fathers'. Timid, British pragmatism has tended to misrecognise Durkheim ever since our barely transcended early 20th century origins. In relatively low-status teacher education, even when sociology of education was popularly taught from the late sixties through the…

Critical pedagogy is in crisis. To address this crisis, this paper reinvents Paulo Freire's concept of utopia in and for our age of the Anthropocene. Understood as a system, postdigital critical utopia provides us with normative foundations and returns agency from invisible data and algorithms to human beings. Understood as a process, postdigital…

Three fundamental scientific works on the pedagogy of Comenius will be considered from new perspectives. These are the works of the East German comeniologist Franz Hofmann and the two West German comeniologists, Klaus Schaller and Andreas Lischewski. Germany has produced numerous scientific analyses of Comenius since 1945, but these three…

Contemporary Western educational systems have been described as a landscape of control and assessment meant to make education, in Gert J. J. Biesta's words, "strong, secure, and predictable," and ultimately "risk-free." Against this desire for strength, Biesta argues for "weakness," focusing on the risks of the…

Christer Ekholm's point of departure in this article is Gert J. J. Biesta's call for a new pedagogical attitude that takes a stand against the current trend in education. At present, the dominant approach is to make what we do in school into something wholly predictable, measurable, and assessable, which (as Biesta argues) misses important aspects…

In response to Ruth Heilbronn and Adrian Skilbeck's thoughtful review of my "American Philosophy in Translation," I take up three aspects of the argument about which I want both to defend my position and to clarify it further. The first is the use of examples in philosophy and philosophy of education. The second raises the question of…

In a time when the pursuit of quality is high on the Swedish ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) policy agenda, teachers' responsibilities for evaluating educational practice, based on documentation of individual children's development and learning, is emphasised. To aid teachers in this work, the Swedish National Agency of Education…

Though long recognized as a leading proponent of Critical Social Theory, Jürgen Habermas has achieved limited influence in educational administration and research. I argue that this circumstance is in large part due to a gap in understanding the historical changes evident in Habermas's theorizing of 'practical discourse' as a key component of his…

Dissent is conceptualized as a largely able-minded political expression. Ashley Taylor argues in this essay that educational philosophers, therefore, lack an understanding of dissent that can capture the politically relevant expressions of students labeled with significant disabilities. While traditional frameworks of dissent may capture many of…

This paper substantiates the notion of inclusive materialism by illustrating the role of signs and micro-perception in the learning process of multiplication. Inclusive materialism, offered by de Freitas and Sinclair, considers mathematical learning a process of becoming a learning assemblage, which embodies various materials in a Deleuzian sense.…