Creative spaces as affective possibilities 2027
Supported by Leeds Beckett University Have you ever walked into a classroom and immediately sensed an atmosphere before a word has been spoken? This participatory event begins from the premise...
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Kay Sidebottom, Dr
Lecturer at University of Stirling
Kay Sidebottom is a Lecturer in Education, and Programme Director for a new MSc Education at the University of Stirling. With a background in community and adult education, her pedagogical specialisms include critical, radical and anarchist education, arts-based practice and community philosophy. Current research projects focus on what we can learn from ‘more-than-human' teachers; that is, the animals, insects and wider ecological systems on which humanity depends. Her recent collaborators include dogs, bees and algae.
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‘A world of difference’: Exploring inclusivity in physical education through a posthuman lens
Inclusivity as a concept is widely discussed, taught and applied as education grapples with difficult questions of equity and fairness in times of increasing human complexity. However, its meaning...
Continue reading blog postWhy posthumanism? And why now? Ethics and method for complex times
I first engaged with critical posthuman theory in 2015, at Rosi Braidotti’s Posthuman Summer School at the University of Utrecht. At the time, I was working in teacher training, preparing people...
Continue reading blog postÂ鶹ÒùÔº ECR Network Symposium Series 2023: Making decisions in educational research: ethics and methodologies
Who is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is targeted at early career researchers (ECRs) – be they current Masters or Doctoral students or those in the early post-doctoral phase....
Nomadic enquiry: Reimagining research ethics for ‘posthuman’ times
Traditional research practice often fails to acknowledge our embodied, entangled and complex roles, with ‘ethics’ becoming merely a form to tick off along a path to neutral and objective...
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