Education in an Era of Schooling: Critical perspectives of Educational Practice and Action Research. A Festschrift for Stephen Kemmis

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This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational researcher and academic spanning over 40 years. His work in curriculum, evaluation, critical practice, action research and practice theory has been influential across all continents of the world. The book examines critical perspectives on educational practice and the participatory nature of action research, including practitioner research particularly as undertaken by teachers in schools. Including vignettes from Kemmis’ colleagues and mentors, it draws on contributions from a range of academics whose scholarship has been inspired, influenced and initiated by his work. The chapters stem from a range of countries, including Australia, Canada, Finland, weden, the United Kingdom, United States of America, and Trinidad and Tobago - a testimony to the enduring and global legacy of Kemmis’ scholarship. Contributing authors include leading educational research scholars, indigenous elders from Australia, and community leaders concerned with environmental sustainability. The concluding focus of this book turns towards practice theory. Kemmis’ later work led to the development of the theory of practice architectures and gave rise to the development of the theory of ecologies of practices in education. Research drawing on the theory of practice architectures and ecologies of practices resulted in the leading text “Changing practices, changing education” (Kemmis, Wilkinson, Edwards-Groves, Hardy, Grootenboer & Bristol, 2014, Springer) that reports on an Australian investigation of the ecological relationship between student learning, teaching, professional learning, leading and researching practices.This theory is now being applied to study practices across a wide range of international contexts, sites and disciplines including early childhood, school education, university education, vocational education and training, community environment, indigenous cultural sustainability and health. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiv The Possibilities for Education in an Era of Schooling (Peter Grootenboer, Christine Edwards-Groves, Jane Wilkinson)....Pages 1-15 A Festschrift for My Friend? (Wilfred Carr)....Pages 17-26 Curriculum Studies in Australia: Stephen Kemmis and the Deakin Legacy (Bill Green)....Pages 27-45 Recollecting the Dilemmas of Reform (Fazal Rizvi)....Pages 47-60 Evolution of the Action Research Planners: Towards Critical Participatory Action Research (Robin McTaggart, Rhonda Nixon)....Pages 61-78 Education, Work and Life (Hannu L. T. Heikkinen)....Pages 79-90 Action Research and Communicative Spaces (Karin Rönnerman, Petri Salo)....Pages 91-105 Practitioner Research in the Company of Others: Resistance in the Face of Normalising Practice (Susan Groundwater-Smith, Nicole Mockler)....Pages 107-120 Action Research and Praxis: Grasping the Mystery of What Happens? (Jan Ax, Petra Ponte)....Pages 121-133 Knowing Pedagogical Praxis in Twenty-First Century Education (Christine Edwards-Groves, Peter Grootenboer, Tracey Smith)....Pages 135-150 On Practice Theory, or What’s Practices Got to Do (Got to Do) with It? (Theodore Schatzki)....Pages 151-165 Practice Architectures and Being Stirred into Academic Practices of a Research Group (Kathleen Mahon, Susanne Francisco, Annemaree Lloyd)....Pages 167-181 Practice Architectures and Ecologies of Practices: Knowing Practice Within Sites (Jane Wilkinson, Laurette Bristol)....Pages 183-195 Practice Theory and Policy: Redesigning ‘Quality’ Teacher Education in Australia (Ian Hardy)....Pages 197-212 Reminiscences, Reflections, Recognition (Christine Edwards-Groves, Thomas Grayson, David Jenkins, Uncle Stan Grant, Carmel Wallis, Kaye Bryan)....Pages 213-237 Life in Practices: Challenges for Education and Educational Research (Stephen Kemmis)....Pages 239-254 Back Matter ....Pages 255-282