Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1: Arts and Humanities-Based Rethinkings of Interconnection, Technologies, and Education

Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1 explores the complexities of cultural-political issues in education through arts and humanities-based approaches, offering innovative relational methods and narrativization strategies to engage researchers and practitioners.

Format: Hardback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 19 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The 21st century is a time of remarkable claims about interconnection, technological innovation, and new affective intensities, while also facing challenges to the primacy and centrality of the human. In response to these complexities, Flashpoint Epistemology emerges as a field that attends to the lived difficulties encountered in teaching, policymaking, curriculum, and research. These difficulties arise from continuous practices of differentiation, for which there is no pre-existing template for judgment, resolution, or action.

Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1 delves into contemporary collisions and reworkings of cultural-political issues in education through arts and humanities-based approaches. The book explores how and whether lines are (re)drawn in educational practice, particularly in the areas of justice, morality, religion, ethics, subjectivities, intersectionality, the sublime, and the senses. It offers innovative relational approaches and new narrativization strategies to examine the aporia experienced when operating in educational domains characterized by inevitable, recurring, difficult, fortuitous, and/or unforeseen flashpoints.

The chapters in this volume will engage researchers seeking new approaches to the complexities of education, nested discourses, and ever-moving horizons of enactment. It will also be of great benefit to post/graduate students and teachers whose work intersects with sociological, philosophical, and cultural studies, as well as those who are curious about claims to interconnection, the ethical quandaries embedded in practice, and the affordances and limits of technological innovation.

In conclusion, Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1 provides a valuable contribution to the field of education by exploring the intersections of culture, politics, and epistemology in educational practice. It offers innovative approaches and strategies to navigate the challenges and complexities of our time, and will be of interest to scholars, educators, and practitioners alike.

Weight: 640g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032593357