The Viability of Change: Challenging Established Norms and Structures in Educational Research and Practice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

One of Foucault’s enduring legacies is to examine new ways to consider changing practice through philosophical and historical investigation. By questioning normative and historical assumptions in discourses, power-relations and inquiry, Foucault’s writing directly relates to contemporary educational research and practice, but needs to be sharpened given new political, social and cultural challenges to change that exist in the current moment and into the future. In the contemporary situation, the Anthropocene, global migrations, and the continually divisive politics of one world capitalism, represent a convergent situation, in which educational theory and research presents a vital fulcrum to understand how education and society at large can change. This symposium will critically interrogate Foucault’s legacy via contemporary educational theory and practice

Sub Unit

• SIG-Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Education

Chair

• David R Cole, Western Sydney University

Papers

• The Legacy of 1970s Continental Philosophy Viewed Through a Revival in Social Ecology - David R Cole, Western Sydney University; Mehri Mirzaeirafe, University of North Texas

• Practicing Virtue: Philosophical Inquiry as Ethical Enactments for Material Change - Aaron M. Kuntz, Florida International University

• Foucault and Heterotopia: Looming Shipwreck or Flotillas of Lifeboats? - Joff P.N. Bradley, Teikyo University

• Solidarity With Nonhumans as Response to Empire - Jesse Bazzul, University of Regina

• Agential Realism as a Form of Political Activism in De/colonizing Teacher Education: Are We Also Animals? - Karin Saskia Murris, University of Oulu

Discussant

• Marek Tesar, The University of Auckland