VOLUME 5(4) • 2017
INTRODUCTION: CRITICAL CULTURES OF KNOWLEDGE
ABSTRACT. We are happy to present this year’s fourth issue of Knowledge Cultures. If its subject matter could be distilled into a single theme, it would be that there are several guises to criticality. It has always been our aim, as editors of Knowledge Cultures, to ensure that critical approaches t..
NEOLIBERAL POLITICS AND THE DEAD BODIES OF CHILDREN
ABSTRACT. This article looks at the ways in which Trump and Clinton expressed and reinforced what might be called hard and soft elements of neoliberal values and policies during their 2016 presidential campaigns, and how Trump accelerated such practices once elected president. While Trump’s authorit..
CRITICAL MOMENTS OF (UN)DOING DOCTORAL SUPERVISION: COLLABORATIVE WRITING AS RHIZOMATIC PRACTICE
ABSTRACT. Despite the proliferation of doctoral training courses within universities, little attention is paid to the complexity of supervision as a process of becoming for both students and supervisors. As post-qualitative researchers we explore how collaborative writing can be mobilised as a rhizo..
DIALOGICAL CRITICAL THINKING IN CHILDREN
ABSTRACT. Twenty-first century children and adolescents need cognitive tools to find their way through the mass of available information, and to become actively engaged in an evolving world. The tool suggested by UNESCO is the development of Critical Thinking (CT) and, in order to stimulate this dev..
HETEROGLOSSIAL POSITIONING? BICULTURALISM IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION IN AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND
ABSTRACT. I suggest that Mikhail Bakhtin’s language theories offer early childhood education (ECE) teachers a provocation to move beyond any monologic understandings, as supported by authorial policy documents, to reflect on the complexity of cultures. After engaging with the concepts of heterologis..
IN THE MARKET FOR AN ECE TRANSITION-TO-SCHOOL PROGRAMME?
ABSTRACT. This article draws on a small evaluation research project, conducted in one early childhood education (ECE) centre in Auckland, New Zealand, with the aim of supporting its capacity for self-review. The centre management and governance team was motivated to seek out the support of research ..
TENSIONS BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE DISCOURSES IN TEACHER EDUCATION: DOES CURRENT NORWEGIAN REFORM REPRESENT AN ATTACK ON CRITICAL KNOWLEDGE?
ABSTRACT. Internationally there are heated debates on what knowledge should be provided in teacher education. Historically, teacher education has played a role in critiquing and challenging current discourses on education. In the neoliberal discourse, teacher education first of all plays an instrume..
MINDING THE GAP BETWEEN DIALECTICAL AND DIALOGICAL: USE OF BAKHTINIAN CONCEPTS IN NORWEGIAN EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
ABSTRACT. This research is based on seven studies in the field of Education published by Norwegian educationalists between 2003 and 2013. The focus of this article is on studies where the methodology is based on or includes Bakhtinian concepts. Three questions are central to this study: (A) What spe..