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2005
The Knowledge Economy and Higher Education.
Presentation to the Higher Education
Collaborative, UIUC Sponsored by HEC & Bureau of Educational Research, College of
Education Room 242, Thursday, November 3
rd
.
Kinds of Thinking, Styles of Reasoning. Keynote paper presented at the Philosophy of Education
Society of Australasia Inc. 34th Annual PESA Conference ‘Critical thinking and learning:
values, concepts and issues’, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, 24 – 27 November
2005.
Knowledge Futures, Foundationalism and the Question of Value. Keynote at VIII Congreso
Nacional de Investigación Educativa in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.
Knowledge Futures: Open source, open access, free science. Rethinking The Study Of Education,
Special Colloquium, Philosophy Of Education Society of Great Britain, Sheffield Branch,
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Sheffield Branch, Thursday 12 May
2005.
The Knowledge Economy and Higher Education. Presentation sponsored by the Comparative
Education Research Centre (CERC) & the Office of Research, Faculty of Education, The
University of Hong Kong, Wednesday 30 November.
Citizen-Consumers in Higher Education: The Ethics of Self-Formation. AERA Symposium with
Gert Biesta, Lynda Stone, Wendy Kohli, Jim Marshall & Michael Peters. Chairs: Nicholas
Burbules & Patti Lather, AERA, 2005.
Power: Concepts, Kinds and Contexts--an approach to the politics of nursing. 9th International
Philosophy of Nursing Conference, 6th–8th September, Bodington Hall, University of
Leeds.
The Strategy and the Global Context: A review of the strategy in terms of the ‘external
environment’. Presentation at International Symposium on The Strategy for Education in
the Sultanate of Oman 2006- 2020, under the auspices of H.H. Sayyid Fahad bin Mahmood
Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for Council of Ministers, 14 -16 March 2005, Al Bustan
Palace Hotel.
Higher Education, Development, and the Learning Economy. Paper presented at the College of
Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 14 February.
Globalisation and the Knowledge Economy: Implications for Education Policy. Invited
presentation at International Symposium on Globalization and Higher Education,
University of Virgina, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 29 – June 3.
2004
Poststructural Marxisms, (Education) and the Politics of Difference, Pingtung Teachers’ College,
Taiwan, keynote conference presentation at Marxism and Poststructuralism in Education,
October 1
st
.
Why Foucault? New Directions in Educational Research, invited address at National Kaohsiung
Normal University, October 4
th
, 2004 and National Taiwan University, October 7
th
.
The New Pedagogy and the Cultural Stakes of Constructivism. Invited address National Taiwan
University, October 5
th
.
Education, the New Economy and the Communicative Turn. Paper presented at ECER Network
23, Policy Studies and Politics of Education, Friday September 24.
Education and Security in the Age of Terrorism: ‘The battle for young minds’, Glasgow School of
Art Annual Student Conference Day, 13
th
May.
Education and Security in the Age of Terrorism: ‘The battle for young minds’
Global Citizenship
seminar, 8
th
June, Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow.
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(with T. Besley) An Online-Only Doctorate of Education At The University of Glasgow,
International Conference on Education and Information Systems: Technology and
Applications, July 21 – 25, in Orlando, Florida, USA. Published in conference proceedings.
Knowledge networks, innovation and development: education after modernisation, Philosophy of
Education Society of Great Britain, Annual Conference, New College Oxford, 2
nd
-4th
April. Published in conference proceedings.
(with T. Besley) Performative epistemologies: the theatre of fast knowledge, Philosophy of
Education Society of Great Britain, Annual Conference, New College Oxford, 2
nd
-4th
April. Published in conference proceedings.
Education and the Philosophy of the Body: Bodies of Knowledge and Knowledges of the Body,
SIG – Arts and Learning Interactive Symposium: Imaging Flesh: Embodied Knowing and
Arts Education, American Educational Research Association, Annual Meeting, San Deigo,
April 12-16.
Poststructuralism and Educational Research: The Limits of Reason, Division D - Section 3 -
Qualitative Research Methods. Interactive Symposium: Pragmatism, Postructuralism and
the Limits of Educational Research, American Educational Research Association, Annual
Meeting, San Deigo, April 12-16.
Journal Talk: Educational Philosophy and Theory, American Educational Research Association,
Annual Meeting, San Deigo, April 12-16.
Education, the New Economy and the Communicative Turn, ECER 2004 Crete, Annual
Conference, 22 – 25 September 2004.
The Need for Strategic Thinking on Sustainable Digital learning Environment, with Roni Avariam
and others, ‘European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN), Annual Conference,
‘New Challenges and Partnerships in an Enlarged European Union’, Budapest University
of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary, 16-19 June.
2003
Education and Ideologies in the Knowledge Economy: Europe and the Politics of Emulation,
Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education, University of Leuven, August.
War as Globalisation and Globalisation as War: The Role of Education. Keynote presentation at
the Global Citizenship Day, Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow, June 9
th
Theorising Educational Practices: The Politico-Ethical Choices. Paper presented at Philosophy of
Education Society of Great Britain Annual Conference, New College,
Oxford University,
April 11-13. Published in conference proceedings.
The New Prudentialism in Education: Actuarial Rationality and the Entrepreneurial Self. Paper
presented at the World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, 11-12 August.
Heidegger, Ethics and the Art of Teaching. Paper presented at American Educational Research
Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Educational Research, ‘Games Of Truth’ and the Ethics of Subjectivity, ‘Ethical Educational
Research: Practices of The Self’ (Symposium: with Tina Besley & Clare Caddell) BERA,
August.
Between Empires: Rethinking Citizenship and Identity in a Context of Globalisation. Plenary
keynote address to Between Empires: Communication, Globalisation and Identity, School
of Communication Studies and the Centre for Communication Research, Auckland
University of Technology, 13-15 February, 2003.
(with T. Besley) Theorizing the Philosophical Curriculum in Education: Humanism,
Phenomenology and (Post)structuralism. Paper presented at American Educational
Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA), Chicago.