VOLUME 9(2) • 2021
The Idea of Care for Reason in Chinese Philosophy and Its Influence on German Enlightenment: The Reception of Confucianism in the Moral Philosophy of Christian Wolff
ABSTRACT. This study focuses on early Enlightenment philosophy professor Christian Wolff’s Discourse on the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese (Oratio de Sinarum philosophia practica), which was published 300 years ago this year. After Leibniz’s works Novissima Sinica and Discours sur la Theologie ..
The Gel in the Pell-Mell: Performing Arts Teachers as Agents of Cultural Integration in an Era of Mass Migration
ABSTRACT. The world is experiencing mass migration on an unprecedented scale, and this migration is increasing. What are the implications for education and for the role of the teacher? This article extends Gert Biesta’s call for the re(dis)covery of the teacher: to consider how a teacher’s purpose m..
Vibrant Matter’s Fitness for Death: The Scandal of Bobby Calves in New Zealand’s Farming Industry
ABSTRACT. But the collocation, ‘bobby calf,’ thought to have originated in the 1920s, is just too cute by half (Lexico, 2021; OED, 2021). I believe it deceptively belies the reality that is the calves’ abbreviated existence (and everything that comes before). What exactly is a bobby calf? I know the..
Stereotype Threat: A Hidden Barrier for Academics who Teach?
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I consider the new idea that the stereotype threat of being an academic can impede teaching. This includes teaching in any context, large groups, small groups, outreach in schools, etc. I propose that this is due to a disruption of short-term and procedural memory. If this i..