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Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 2 brings creative sociopolitical research perspectives to flashpoints which emerge amid appeals to globalisation, synoptic policy approaches and new technologies - however defined.
List of contents
Introduction to Vol 2. 1. Aporias of Power: Witnessing, Space, and Technology Part 1: Sensory Overload? Vision and Sonics in the (Re)Making of Subjects 2. Analogue-Digital-Image: Shifting Constellations of Time, Bodies and Pedagogy in the Use of Media Technologies in Latin American Schools 3. Visual Narratives and the Eventalizing of "Mixed-Race" Subject-Bodies 4. Echo Chambers of Oppression: Sound(ed) Understanding and Deep Listening through Sonic Ethnography 5. Flashpoints on "Spaceship Earth": Historicizing "global competence" and "international understanding" in the American curriculum of international education during the 1960s and 1970s Part 2: Un/homing Geopolitics, Philosophy and Power: Claims to Global/Local amid Earthquake and Drift 6. Global Interconnectivity and its Ethical Challenges in Education 7. The Shifting Space of Success: Well-Being, Gender, and Care Around Education Fever Within Educational Reform Discourses 8. Flashpoints of an immediate "here": A genealogy of locating the child in curricular thought 9. Cracks in the sidewalk: Looking behind the seamless surfaces of digital schooling
About the author
Bernadette Baker is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her work draws upon philosophy, history, comparative cosmology, and sociology as they intersect with curriculum studies, educational history, and philosophy, policies, and practices focused on well-being, new technologies, and the effects of power.
Antti Saari is Associate Professor (tenure track) at Tampere University Faculty of Education and Culture. Saari's studies on educational research and governance have analyzed how transnational discourses of educational research and expert knowledge are translated to practices of evaluation, classroom management, and the use of instructional technology.
Liang Wang received her Ph.D. degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022. She conducts transdisciplinary research in the transformation of education through digital technology, especially the digital recontouring of structural marginalization amid national and global education policy reform and technology-enhanced, anti-oppressive pedagogy.
Hannah Tavares is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Hawai¿i at M¿noa. Her work explores the personal, relational, and diasporic, and the construction of geographical identity. Her practice draws from multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives to examine the ambivalence and complexity of territorial and cultural boundaries. At the center of her work is the body, understood as a site of power and action.
Summary
Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 2 brings creative sociopolitical research perspectives to flashpoints which emerge amid appeals to globalisation, synoptic policy approaches and new technologies – however defined.
