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51Complexity, education, and politics: From the inside out and outside inIn Deborah Osberg & Gert Biesta (eds.), Complexity Theory and the Politics of Education, Sense Publishers. 2010.
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166From representation to emergence: Complexity's challenge to the epistemology of schoolingEducational Philosophy and Theory 40 (1). 2008.In modern, Western societies the purpose of schooling is to ensure that school-goers acquire knowledge of pre-existing practices, events, entities and so on. The knowledge that is learned is then tested to see if the learner has acquired a correct or adequate understanding of it. For this reason, it can be argued that schooling is organised around a representational epistemology: one which holds that knowledge is an accurate representation of something that is separate from knowledge itself. Sin…Read more
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4From Representation to Emergence: Complexity's Challenge to the Epistemology of SchoolingIn Mark Mason (ed.), Complexity Theory and the Philosophy of Education, Wiley-blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Knowledge and Representation Education as a Re/Presentational Practice Complexity's Challenge to Representation Complexity's Challenge to Presentation Implications for Schooling Notes References.
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77Beyond curriculum: Groundwork for a non-instrumental theory of educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (1): 57-70. 2020.This paper problematizes current thinking about education by arguing that the question of educational purpose is not simply a socio-political question concerned with what the ends should be and why...
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15Education and the FutureIn Roberto Poli (ed.), Handbook of Anticipation: Theoretical and Applied Aspects of the Use of Future in Decision Making, Springer Verlag. pp. 1459-1478. 2019.This chapter uses the concept of anticipation to reposition a philosophical tension regarding the way in which educational responsibility is usually understood. The tension puts educational practice in conflict with itself, to the extent that many of its practices are self-undermining and incoherent. In addressing this philosophical tension, I first explain its basis. Following this, I argue that the tension is produced by an extrapolatory form of anticipation and futurity that is so dominant in…Read more
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9The End/s of Education: Complexity and the Conundrum of the Inclusive Educational CurriculumInternational Journal of Inclusive Education 14 (6): 593-607. 2010.The conundrum of the inclusive educational curriculum is that the more inclusive a curriculum becomes in practice, the less inclusive it becomes in principle. In this paper we explain the conundrum and argue that its appearance is a product of what could be called ‘object-based’ logic which is underpinned by a deterministic understanding of causality. As long as we employ object-based logic to think about the curriculum, we cannot avoid asking what a curriculum is for. Whoever answers this quest…Read more
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231Complexity Theory and the Politics of Education (edited book)Sense Publishers. 2010.Complexity theory has become a major influence in discussions about the theory and practice of education. This book focuses on a question which so far has received relatively little attention in such discussions, which is the question of the politics of complexity. The chapters in this book engage with this question in a range of different ways. Whereas some contributions make a case for the promotion of complexity in education, others focus more explicitly on questions concerning the reduction …Read more
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6The Logic of Emergence. An Alternative Conceptual Space for Theorizing Critical EducationJournal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies 6 (1): 133-161. 2008.
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Taking care of the future? The complex responsibility of education and politicsIn Deborah Osberg & Gert Biesta (eds.), Complexity Theory and the Politics of Education, Sense Publishers. pp. 157--170. 2010.
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University of ExeterRegular Faculty
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Action |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |