VOLUME 10(2) • 2022
Learning to Be, Differently? UNESCO, The Faure Report, and Mutual Appreciation in Retrospect and Prospect
ABSTRACT. The Faure Report (1972), which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, is once again being celebrated for renewing the call for humanistic, progressive, and democratic approaches to education globally. At the time of its publication at the outset of the second Development Decade, the re..
Your Discomfort Is Valid: Big Feelings and Open Pedagogy
ABSTRACT. This article explores the affective reactions of 13 community college students engaged in an open pedagogy textbook creation project. The instructor and first author, a human development and family services faculty member and department chair at a community college in Oregon, received feed..
Invisible Women: The PBRF as a Regime of Inequality in Aotearoa New Zealand
ABSTRACT. This article traces the framing and positioning of gender in the Tertiary Education Commission’s (TEC) rethinking of the Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF) under the aegis of equity, diversity and inclusion. The article begins with the position that gender equity in academia in Aotearo..
Conceptual Writing to Explore Meaning-Making in Social Theory: Remixing Herbert Spencer and Karl Marx
ABSTRACT. The following conceptual writing interweaves lines from canonical texts (in the public domain) by Herbert Spencer and Karl Marx, whom I chose as two immensely popular writers from the same period focused on social theory. The introduction briefly reviews my initial graduate school experien..
Reflection through Diffraction: Interdisciplinarity in Energy Science
ABSTRACT. To address the complexities associated with transitioning towards sustainable energy solutions, there are increasing demands to employ interdisciplinary approaches. However, these still represent a minority of research projects. This is due to the well-known understanding that researchers’..
ASMR Literacies: Toward a Posthuman Structure of Feeling
ABSTRACT. This article describes the ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) video – a visual form of technologically-mediated, intimacy-inducing sound performance – and its accompanying embodied, psychosensory effects as a mode of literacy production and reception that blurs the boundaries betw..
Radicalising Cultures of Uneven Data-Driven Political Communication
ABSTRACT. The realm of politics (and social relations in general) during the era of social media and massive amounts of data about citizens is undergoing a creeping transformation that the general public does not understand. This essay draws attention to the increasingly deep conditioning of the pol..