Collective Intellectualities Alex Means and Amy Sojot
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Collective Intellectualities is a program that explores issues related to education within our world today. Convivial discussions with a diverse group of scholars, from different places in the world, engaging with different theoretical traditions, from multiple epistemological viewpoints on education, culture, politics, ecology, and related issues. Hosted by Amy Sojot and Alex Means. We are produced in conjunction with the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, their new digital venture PESA Agora, and the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory. || Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia - https://pesa.org.au/ || PESA Agora - https://pesaagora.com/ || Educational Philosophy and Theory - https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rept20/current
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19 Kenneth Saltman - Beyond Bodies and Numbers: AI, Education, and the Digital Politics of Knowledge
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 sele...
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18 Andrew Gibbons - Science Fiction and Philosophy of Education
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 a...
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17 Neil Selwyn - Ed-Tech: Puncturing the Hype for a Planetary Future
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 Technolog...
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16 Keita Takayama - Interrupting Global Economy of Academic Knowledge
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 tw...
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15 Mark Featherstone - Utopian Imagination and the Disenchanted University
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 P...
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14 Petar Jandrić, Michael A Peters, Derek R Ford, Sarah Hayes–Biodigitalism & Ecopedagogical Futures
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...