Seth Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2750-2284 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Navigating education and work futures through generative AI: Transmaterial philosophy, education, and the algorithmic arts
The creative industries are shifting rapidly with the emergence of generative AI technologies. These transitions provide new opportunities for young people entering higher education in the creative industries, while perpetuating existing patterns of extraction and marginalisation under late capitalism. This article turns to the algorithmic arts in search of counter-practices that disrupt instrumental applications of AI within creative industries …
The Pandemic and the Challenges for Young People of Living Well in the Anthropocene
This article builds on work in which we have engaged nearly 100 young people in video-based interviews in two separate projects that have been concerned with asking young people about their lives in the present (that was 2020–2023) and the challenges and opportunities that they imagined in their futures—personally and more widely concerning the crises of the pandemic, the climate and global capitalism. That work has been framed by a critical enga…
Young People’s Hopes and Aspirations in a ‘Clever and Creative’ City During the Time of Covid-19
In this paper, we draw on the outcomes of a longitudinal, video-based study (2021–2023) of 40 + young people’s aspirations and their education, training and employment pathways in the regional centre of Geelong (Australia) — a ‘deindustrialising’ place being rebranded as ‘clever and creative’. In these contexts, there is much community, business and policy concern to develop the hopes and aspirations of disadvantaged young people for the jobs tha…
Authenticating the integration of the SDGs into a higher education fashion program
Integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into higher education programs, rather than treating them as add-ons, is essential for fostering genuine engagement with sustainability and driving transformational change across industries. However, evaluating whether the SDGs are meaningfully integrated into a program—and validating this integration—remains a challenge. This article presents an approach to authenticate the inte…
Generation Dread’? Young People’s Mourning for Futures Lost
In this paper we engage with recent scholarship that identifies a range of emotional responses that are claimed to be widespread among young people at what has been called the collapse of the Holocene. Our interest in these concerns emerges from a recent scenario planning project we conducted with youth service stakeholders and more than 50 young people during 2020–21. The conduct of that project suggests that the practice of scenario planning pr…
Young people and the biocultural politics of voice in the anthropocene
Young people and the biocultural politics of voice in the anthropocene
The status of women and the cultural politics of Pakistan Studies in postcolonial Pakistan
This paper investigates how the rights, roles and status of women are presented in Pakistan Studies textbooks (PSTs) for grades 9 and 10, published by Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB). Using a critical discourse analysis to identify and critique power relations embedded in educational discourses, we understand Pakistan Studies textbooks as politically contested and socially shaped and constituted. Drawing on postcolonial theories, post…
We are in a very precarious position: Exploring the resilience of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the Covid-19 pandemic in Pakistan
This paper draws upon empirical data in order to offer insights to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities in Peshawar City, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The paper also considers the resilience that the community developed during this time. Drawing on Butler's concept of precarity and liveability, we in this article demonstrate how the precarious positionalities of Khawaja Sara and H…
What a study of educator evaluation taught us about professional learning
After years evaluating teacher professional learning programs, researchers Andrew J. Wayne, Jordan Rickles, Mengli Song, Seth Brown, and Michael S. Garet describe a study that changed their perspective. The study’s takeaways about the design of teacher professional learning are important for everyone who seeks to create systems to support teaching and learning. The findings call attention to the value of streamlined, high-quality programs for imp…
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: Stories of futures from a de-industrialising city
In this paper -where we will draw on data from a small scale longitudinal study of young people's post-COVID aspirations and sense of their futures in a de-industrialising city -we will suggest that Appadurai's (2004) ideas about the 'capacity to aspire' encourages us to shift our focus from the 'aspirations' of individual young people to think, instead, about the different resources that might be at play in shaping a capacity to aspire.Departing…
Covid-19 and the (Broken) Promise of Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Postcolonial Pakistan
The book charts the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact that it has had on the lives of young people and their communities, education systems, the teaching profession, and the responses by governments, NGOs, and donor organisations in Pakistan. Drawing on theories of postcolonialism, feminism, and neoliberal globalisation, the authors explore the development of Pakistan as a postcolonial nation-state, and examine the legacies of co…
Young people and post-pandemic futures: Scenario planning as a radical politics of hope
Purpose In this paper we report on the outcomes of a scenario planning project in Melbourne's (Australia) inner northern suburbs, which was undertaken in the context of an extended lockdown during Melbourne's second wave of COVID-19 infections. In this project, the researchers sought to identify the ways in which young people and youth service providers understood the challenges that the pandemic was creating for young people and the provision of…
Young people’s presents and futures, and the moral obligation to be enterprising and aspirational in times of crisis
Covid-19, the Anthropocene and Young People’s Well-Being: A Posthuman Rethinking of Young People as ‘Biocultural Creatures’
In two recent edited collections – Young People and Thinking Technologies in/for the Anthropocene and Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene (Kraftl et al., 2022; Kelly et al., 2022) we and our colleagues have argued for the need to develop new ways of ‘troubling’ orthodoxies in youth studies when the Anthropocene is producing multiple crises in earth systems. In this paper we do some of that troubling by drawing on a recent project in whi…
Combining a Local Comparison Group, a Pretest Measure, and Rich Covariates: How Well Do They Collectively Reduce Bias in Nonequivalent Comparison Group Designs
This study examined bias reduction in the eight nonequivalent comparison group designs (NECGDs) that result from combining (a) choice of a local versus non-local comparison group, and analytic use or not of (b) a pretest measure of the study outcome and (c) a rich set of other covariates. Bias was estimated as the difference in causal estimate between each NECGD and a carefully appraised randomized experiment with the same intervention, outcome, …
Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene
This collection, which is a companion volume to Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene (Kelly et al., 2022), aims to find, to explore, and to co-produce ways of ‘staying with the trouble’ (Haraway 2016) that are disruptive of orthodoxies in childhood and youth studies, and productive of new ways of thinking, and of being and becoming, in the circumstances that we (young and old) find ourselves in. Circumstances that have, problematically, …
Covid-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: Lockdown stories from the Anthropocene
In this paper, we draw on the outcomes of a place-based scenario planning project in Melbourne's (AUSTRALIA) inner northern suburbs that was titled COVID-19 Recovery Scenarios for Young People in Melbourne's Inner North. As part of that project, we conducted video interviews with 53 young people during what became an extended second lockdown period in Melbourne as the city dealt with a resurgence in COVID infections. In this paper, we present the…
The responsibilisation of learners in the Australian Foundation Skills apparatus: Making Up Motivated, Choice-Making Customers
This paper contributes to debates that shaped a special issue of Discourse in 2017 by taking the debate about responsibilisation in education into the realm of Foundations Skills in Australia. The difficulties that many Australian adults experience with low levels of language, literacy and numeracy skills (Foundation Skills), have been widely identified. It has been claimed that almost half of Australia’s working age population have Foundation Sk…
Belonging, Identity, Time and Young People’s Engagement in the Middle Years of School
Learning to be a 'goody-goody: Ethics and performativity in high school elite athlete programmes
Over the past few decades, New Zealand schools have started elite athlete programmes (EAPs) to develop talented sportspeople. The purpose of this study was to evaluate teachers/coaches and elite athletes' perspectives of their learning experiences in two EAPs. Ball's concept of performativity and Gore's techniques of power were integral in examining the relationships between power, knowledge and social practices. The results showed that the EAPs …
Tidy, toned and fit’: Locating healthism within elite athlete programmes
Coaches and athletes have been increasingly inundated with power related ‘truths’ about their bodies, health and performance as they construct their subjectivities. Over the last couple of decades in New Zealand, schools have initiated elite athlete programmes (EAPs) for a select few students based primarily on their athletic ability and fitness levels. Drawing on Gore's techniques of power, my study investigated how healthism and the cult of the…
Reconceptualising elite athlete programmes: ‘Undoing’ the Politics of Labelling in Health and Physical Education
High-performance sport is a big business, with nations such as Australia and New Zealand dedicating hundreds of millions of dollars in the development of facilities and in creating sporting centres of excellence. Historically, high-performance sport and elite athlete programmes (EAPs) were regulated to an extra-curricular space in schools or local communities, but over the last couple of decades, schools in Australia and New Zealand have introduc…
Masculinities in Physical Recreation: The (re)production of masculinist discourses in vocational education
Educators have criticised vocational education in Australia and elsewhere for being gendered and classed, thereby not giving those students who choose to undertake this form of study the broadening of opportunities envisioned (e.g., Falk, 1999 Falk, I. 1999. The convergence of vocational and adult education in learning communities. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 23: 697–716. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]; Huws,…
Young people’s presents and futures, and the moral obligation to be enterprising and aspirational in times of crisis
Covid-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: Lockdown stories from the Anthropocene
In this paper, we draw on the outcomes of a place-based scenario planning project in Melbourne's (AUSTRALIA) inner northern suburbs that was titled COVID-19 Recovery Scenarios for Young People in Melbourne's Inner North. As part of that project, we conducted video interviews with 53 young people during what became an extended second lockdown period in Melbourne as the city dealt with a resurgence in COVID infections. In this paper, we present the…
Learning to be a 'goody-goody: Ethics and performativity in high school elite athlete programmes
Over the past few decades, New Zealand schools have started elite athlete programmes (EAPs) to develop talented sportspeople. The purpose of this study was to evaluate teachers/coaches and elite athletes' perspectives of their learning experiences in two EAPs. Ball's concept of performativity and Gore's techniques of power were integral in examining the relationships between power, knowledge and social practices. The results showed that the EAPs …
Reconceptualising elite athlete programmes: ‘Undoing’ the Politics of Labelling in Health and Physical Education
High-performance sport is a big business, with nations such as Australia and New Zealand dedicating hundreds of millions of dollars in the development of facilities and in creating sporting centres of excellence. Historically, high-performance sport and elite athlete programmes (EAPs) were regulated to an extra-curricular space in schools or local communities, but over the last couple of decades, schools in Australia and New Zealand have introduc…
Tidy, toned and fit’: Locating healthism within elite athlete programmes
Coaches and athletes have been increasingly inundated with power related ‘truths’ about their bodies, health and performance as they construct their subjectivities. Over the last couple of decades in New Zealand, schools have initiated elite athlete programmes (EAPs) for a select few students based primarily on their athletic ability and fitness levels. Drawing on Gore's techniques of power, my study investigated how healthism and the cult of the…
Masculinities in Physical Recreation: The (re)production of masculinist discourses in vocational education
Educators have criticised vocational education in Australia and elsewhere for being gendered and classed, thereby not giving those students who choose to undertake this form of study the broadening of opportunities envisioned (e.g., Falk, 1999 Falk, I. 1999. The convergence of vocational and adult education in learning communities. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 23: 697–716. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]; Huws,…
The Pandemic and the Challenges for Young People of Living Well in the Anthropocene
This article builds on work in which we have engaged nearly 100 young people in video-based interviews in two separate projects that have been concerned with asking young people about their lives in the present (that was 2020–2023) and the challenges and opportunities that they imagined in their futures—personally and more widely concerning the crises of the pandemic, the climate and global capitalism. That work has been framed by a critical enga…
The status of women and the cultural politics of Pakistan Studies in postcolonial Pakistan
This paper investigates how the rights, roles and status of women are presented in Pakistan Studies textbooks (PSTs) for grades 9 and 10, published by Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB). Using a critical discourse analysis to identify and critique power relations embedded in educational discourses, we understand Pakistan Studies textbooks as politically contested and socially shaped and constituted. Drawing on postcolonial theories, post…
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: Stories of futures from a de-industrialising city
In this paper -where we will draw on data from a small scale longitudinal study of young people's post-COVID aspirations and sense of their futures in a de-industrialising city -we will suggest that Appadurai's (2004) ideas about the 'capacity to aspire' encourages us to shift our focus from the 'aspirations' of individual young people to think, instead, about the different resources that might be at play in shaping a capacity to aspire.Departing…
Covid-19, the Anthropocene and Young People’s Well-Being: A Posthuman Rethinking of Young People as ‘Biocultural Creatures’
In two recent edited collections – Young People and Thinking Technologies in/for the Anthropocene and Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene (Kraftl et al., 2022; Kelly et al., 2022) we and our colleagues have argued for the need to develop new ways of ‘troubling’ orthodoxies in youth studies when the Anthropocene is producing multiple crises in earth systems. In this paper we do some of that troubling by drawing on a recent project in whi…
The responsibilisation of learners in the Australian Foundation Skills apparatus: Making Up Motivated, Choice-Making Customers
This paper contributes to debates that shaped a special issue of Discourse in 2017 by taking the debate about responsibilisation in education into the realm of Foundations Skills in Australia. The difficulties that many Australian adults experience with low levels of language, literacy and numeracy skills (Foundation Skills), have been widely identified. It has been claimed that almost half of Australia’s working age population have Foundation Sk…
Masculinities in Physical Recreation: The (re)production of masculinist discourses in vocational education
Educators have criticised vocational education in Australia and elsewhere for being gendered and classed, thereby not giving those students who choose to undertake this form of study the broadening of opportunities envisioned (e.g., Falk, 1999 Falk, I. 1999. The convergence of vocational and adult education in learning communities. Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 23: 697–716. [Taylor & Francis Online] , [Google Scholar]; Huws,…
Reconceptualising elite athlete programmes: ‘Undoing’ the Politics of Labelling in Health and Physical Education
High-performance sport is a big business, with nations such as Australia and New Zealand dedicating hundreds of millions of dollars in the development of facilities and in creating sporting centres of excellence. Historically, high-performance sport and elite athlete programmes (EAPs) were regulated to an extra-curricular space in schools or local communities, but over the last couple of decades, schools in Australia and New Zealand have introduc…
Tidy, toned and fit’: Locating healthism within elite athlete programmes
Coaches and athletes have been increasingly inundated with power related ‘truths’ about their bodies, health and performance as they construct their subjectivities. Over the last couple of decades in New Zealand, schools have initiated elite athlete programmes (EAPs) for a select few students based primarily on their athletic ability and fitness levels. Drawing on Gore's techniques of power, my study investigated how healthism and the cult of the…
Learning to be a 'goody-goody: Ethics and performativity in high school elite athlete programmes
Over the past few decades, New Zealand schools have started elite athlete programmes (EAPs) to develop talented sportspeople. The purpose of this study was to evaluate teachers/coaches and elite athletes' perspectives of their learning experiences in two EAPs. Ball's concept of performativity and Gore's techniques of power were integral in examining the relationships between power, knowledge and social practices. The results showed that the EAPs …
Belonging, Identity, Time and Young People’s Engagement in the Middle Years of School
Young People and Thinking Technologies for the Anthropocene
This collection, which is a companion volume to Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene (Kelly et al., 2022), aims to find, to explore, and to co-produce ways of ‘staying with the trouble’ (Haraway 2016) that are disruptive of orthodoxies in childhood and youth studies, and productive of new ways of thinking, and of being and becoming, in the circumstances that we (young and old) find ourselves in. Circumstances that have, problematically, …
Covid-19 and young people’s ‘Future Presents’: Lockdown stories from the Anthropocene
In this paper, we draw on the outcomes of a place-based scenario planning project in Melbourne's (AUSTRALIA) inner northern suburbs that was titled COVID-19 Recovery Scenarios for Young People in Melbourne's Inner North. As part of that project, we conducted video interviews with 53 young people during what became an extended second lockdown period in Melbourne as the city dealt with a resurgence in COVID infections. In this paper, we present the…
The responsibilisation of learners in the Australian Foundation Skills apparatus: Making Up Motivated, Choice-Making Customers
This paper contributes to debates that shaped a special issue of Discourse in 2017 by taking the debate about responsibilisation in education into the realm of Foundations Skills in Australia. The difficulties that many Australian adults experience with low levels of language, literacy and numeracy skills (Foundation Skills), have been widely identified. It has been claimed that almost half of Australia’s working age population have Foundation Sk…
Covid-19 and the (Broken) Promise of Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Postcolonial Pakistan
The book charts the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact that it has had on the lives of young people and their communities, education systems, the teaching profession, and the responses by governments, NGOs, and donor organisations in Pakistan. Drawing on theories of postcolonialism, feminism, and neoliberal globalisation, the authors explore the development of Pakistan as a postcolonial nation-state, and examine the legacies of co…
Young people and post-pandemic futures: Scenario planning as a radical politics of hope
Purpose In this paper we report on the outcomes of a scenario planning project in Melbourne's (Australia) inner northern suburbs, which was undertaken in the context of an extended lockdown during Melbourne's second wave of COVID-19 infections. In this project, the researchers sought to identify the ways in which young people and youth service providers understood the challenges that the pandemic was creating for young people and the provision of…
Young people’s presents and futures, and the moral obligation to be enterprising and aspirational in times of crisis
Covid-19, the Anthropocene and Young People’s Well-Being: A Posthuman Rethinking of Young People as ‘Biocultural Creatures’
In two recent edited collections – Young People and Thinking Technologies in/for the Anthropocene and Young People and Stories for the Anthropocene (Kraftl et al., 2022; Kelly et al., 2022) we and our colleagues have argued for the need to develop new ways of ‘troubling’ orthodoxies in youth studies when the Anthropocene is producing multiple crises in earth systems. In this paper we do some of that troubling by drawing on a recent project in whi…
Combining a Local Comparison Group, a Pretest Measure, and Rich Covariates: How Well Do They Collectively Reduce Bias in Nonequivalent Comparison Group Designs
This study examined bias reduction in the eight nonequivalent comparison group designs (NECGDs) that result from combining (a) choice of a local versus non-local comparison group, and analytic use or not of (b) a pretest measure of the study outcome and (c) a rich set of other covariates. Bias was estimated as the difference in causal estimate between each NECGD and a carefully appraised randomized experiment with the same intervention, outcome, …
What a study of educator evaluation taught us about professional learning
After years evaluating teacher professional learning programs, researchers Andrew J. Wayne, Jordan Rickles, Mengli Song, Seth Brown, and Michael S. Garet describe a study that changed their perspective. The study’s takeaways about the design of teacher professional learning are important for everyone who seeks to create systems to support teaching and learning. The findings call attention to the value of streamlined, high-quality programs for imp…
Rethinking young people’s aspirations in times of crisis: Stories of futures from a de-industrialising city
In this paper -where we will draw on data from a small scale longitudinal study of young people's post-COVID aspirations and sense of their futures in a de-industrialising city -we will suggest that Appadurai's (2004) ideas about the 'capacity to aspire' encourages us to shift our focus from the 'aspirations' of individual young people to think, instead, about the different resources that might be at play in shaping a capacity to aspire.Departing…
Young People’s Hopes and Aspirations in a ‘Clever and Creative’ City During the Time of Covid-19
In this paper, we draw on the outcomes of a longitudinal, video-based study (2021–2023) of 40 + young people’s aspirations and their education, training and employment pathways in the regional centre of Geelong (Australia) — a ‘deindustrialising’ place being rebranded as ‘clever and creative’. In these contexts, there is much community, business and policy concern to develop the hopes and aspirations of disadvantaged young people for the jobs tha…
Authenticating the integration of the SDGs into a higher education fashion program
Integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into higher education programs, rather than treating them as add-ons, is essential for fostering genuine engagement with sustainability and driving transformational change across industries. However, evaluating whether the SDGs are meaningfully integrated into a program—and validating this integration—remains a challenge. This article presents an approach to authenticate the inte…
Generation Dread’? Young People’s Mourning for Futures Lost
In this paper we engage with recent scholarship that identifies a range of emotional responses that are claimed to be widespread among young people at what has been called the collapse of the Holocene. Our interest in these concerns emerges from a recent scenario planning project we conducted with youth service stakeholders and more than 50 young people during 2020–21. The conduct of that project suggests that the practice of scenario planning pr…
Young people and the biocultural politics of voice in the anthropocene
Young people and the biocultural politics of voice in the anthropocene
The status of women and the cultural politics of Pakistan Studies in postcolonial Pakistan
This paper investigates how the rights, roles and status of women are presented in Pakistan Studies textbooks (PSTs) for grades 9 and 10, published by Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board (PCTB). Using a critical discourse analysis to identify and critique power relations embedded in educational discourses, we understand Pakistan Studies textbooks as politically contested and socially shaped and constituted. Drawing on postcolonial theories, post…
We are in a very precarious position: Exploring the resilience of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities during the Covid-19 pandemic in Pakistan
This paper draws upon empirical data in order to offer insights to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of Khawaja Sara and Hijra communities in Peshawar City, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Pakistan. The paper also considers the resilience that the community developed during this time. Drawing on Butler's concept of precarity and liveability, we in this article demonstrate how the precarious positionalities of Khawaja Sara and H…
Navigating education and work futures through generative AI: Transmaterial philosophy, education, and the algorithmic arts
The creative industries are shifting rapidly with the emergence of generative AI technologies. These transitions provide new opportunities for young people entering higher education in the creative industries, while perpetuating existing patterns of extraction and marginalisation under late capitalism. This article turns to the algorithmic arts in search of counter-practices that disrupt instrumental applications of AI within creative industries …
The Pandemic and the Challenges for Young People of Living Well in the Anthropocene
This article builds on work in which we have engaged nearly 100 young people in video-based interviews in two separate projects that have been concerned with asking young people about their lives in the present (that was 2020–2023) and the challenges and opportunities that they imagined in their futures—personally and more widely concerning the crises of the pandemic, the climate and global capitalism. That work has been framed by a critical enga…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (12 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Pandemic (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Art (6 works)