Tina Besley
Biographic Data
| ID | 460256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Besley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Besley |
| SIGNATURE | BESLEY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4377-1257 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 61 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 271 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Preconfiguring Postdigital Futures: Educational Development for Sustainability and Justice
Postdigital Educational Geopolitics
The Geopolitics of Postdigital Educational Development: From Territories to Networks to Rival World Systems
Educational Philosophy and Post-Apocalyptical Survival: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume XIV
Collective obituary for James D. Marshall (1937–2021)
Eulogy for Jim Marshall (read at the funeral)Michael A. PetersBeijing Normal UniversityMy deepest condolences to Pepe, Dom and Marcus and to Jim’s grandchildren. Tina and I spent a lot of time at t
Philosophers and professors behaving badly: Responses to ‘named or nameless’ by Besley, Jackson & Peters. An Epat collective writing project
An ‘accidental or unintentional academic’ on becoming a leading philosopher of education: An interview with Tina Besley
Moral Education and the Ethics of Self-Cultivation: Chinese and Western Perspectives
Postdigital Scholarly Publishing
Foucault, Truth-Telling and Technologies of the Self in Schools
Named or nameless: University ethics, confidentiality and sexual harassment
This paper focusses on our concerns about revelations about sexual harassment in universities and the inadequate responses whereby some universities seem more concerned about their own reputations than the care and protection of their students. Seldom do cases go to criminal court, instead they mostly fall within employment relations policies where the use of non-disclosure agreements are double edged, such that some perpetrators remain nameless …
Exploring the philosophy and practice of collective writing
We are about to publish in the Routledge Editor’s Choice series a collection called The Philosophy, Methodology and Pedagogy of Collective Writing. This collection of collections represents the dev
The case for academic plagiarism education: A Pesa Executive collective writing project
This is a collective writing piece from scholars on the PESA executive\nabout The Case for Academic Plagiarism Education
Making democracy safe for the world? Philosophy of war, peace and democracy
The list of causalities for wars in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries is horrendous with an estimated 187 million people dying in the period 1900 to the present day, with approximately 75 mi
World Class Universities: A Contested Concept
This open access book focuses on The World Class University, its characteristics and its policy expressions.
What Comes After Postmodernism in Educational Theory?
What Comes after Postmodernism in Educational Theory
Pandemic Education and Viral Politics
Viral modernity is a concept based upon the nature of viruses, the ancient and critical role they play in evolution and culture, and their basic application to understanding the role of information and forms of bioinformation in the social world The concept draws a close association between viral biology on the one hand and information science on the other to understand 'viral' technologies, conspiracy theories and the nature of post-truth The CO…
Video ethics in educational research involving children: Literature review and critical discussion
Video ethics in educational research involving children is a recent topic that has arisen since the increase in the use of visual mediums in research (such as photovoice and video) especially with the development of new and ubiquitous internet technologies and social media. This paper emerged as an expressed concerned by a group of scholars associated with the new Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy (Brill) that was established in 2016. The p…
Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: An Epat Collective Project
Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality’, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their worl…
Biopolitics, conspiracy and the immuno-state: An evolving global politico-genetic complex
a. The literature on biopolitics emerged 1970s with Michel Foucault’s (1976)‘Right of Death and Power over Life’, part five of The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Volume 1):For a long time
Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the Pesa executive
Michael Peters, Sonja Arndt & Marek TesarThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the Philosophy of Education in a New Key. Co
World Class Universities: A Contested Concept
Teaching, Responsibility, and the Corruption of Youth
Teaching, Responsibility, and the Corruption of Youth explores the concept and practice of responsibility in education and teaching in the new post-Cold War era after the long run of globalization and liberal internationalism has been disrupted by the rise of populism, anti-immigration sentiments and new forms of terrorism. The old liberal values and forms of tolerance have been questioned. Responsibility is a complex concept in our lives with mo…
G transformational advanced wireless futures
It may seem strange to have what amounts to a technology report, The Transformational Impact of 5G: Proceedings of a Workshop in Brief (2019)1 as central to an editorial in Educational Philosophy a
Postdigital science and education
trans-, and postdisciplines between them (Berry and Dieter, 2015). Through this research, the term postdigital is slowly entering academic discourse
Governmentality Studies in Education
Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality originated in a lecture series in the late 1970s at the Collège de France and soon became the basis for a range of historical and contemporary studies across the social sciences and humanities. The concept in part rests on a simple but powerful idea that links government to the freedom of the subject in a novel understanding of liberal politics. It also provides an analytics of power based on the exami…
China’s double first-class university strategy: 双一流
In 2015, the Central Party Committee and the State Council in China announced plans for the coordination and promotion of world-class universities and first-class subject building (Guo Fa, 2015, No
Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: An Epat Collective Project
Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality’, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their worl…
Philosophy of education in a new key: A collective project of the Pesa executive
Michael Peters, Sonja Arndt & Marek TesarThis is a collective writing experiment of PESA members, including its Executive Committee, asking questions of the Philosophy of Education in a New Key. Co
Weinstein, sexual predation, and ‘Rape Culture’: Public pedagogies and Hashtag Internet activism
The New York Times (11 December 2017) indicates that following Harvey Weinstein’s dismissal for sexual misconduct some 42 other men have been similarly accused on sexual assault and forced to resig
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
Governmentality of Youth: Managing Risky Subjects
This article poses the question: How do understandings of governmentality play out in discourses of youth? In the twenty-first-century neoliberal contexts of consumer capitalist societies, discourses of youth need now to move beyond the valuable earlier understandings based on psychological and cultural/subcultural studies to harness Foucault's notion of governmentality. In terms of governmentality, if youth cannot or will not control their condu…
Terrorism, trauma, tolerance: Bearing witness to white supremacist attack on Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand
Kia kaha Aotearoa, be strong New ZealandTo bear witness to the aftermath of a terrorist atrocity as a national outpouring of grief and a memorialising of those who have passed away is a very touchi
Life and death in the Anthropocene: Educating for survival amid climate and ecosystem changes and potential civilisation collapse
The media is now regularly reporting and highlighting global protest movements such as Greta Thunberg’s School Strike for the Climate and Extinction Rebellion (XR)1 alerting us to both the climate
The Refugee Crisis and The Right to Political Asylum
White supremacism: The tragedy of Charlottesville
Charlottesville is a city in Virginia of just over 48,000 people, formed as an act of assembly in 1762. It is home to the University of Virginia designed by Thomas Jefferson and gateway to Shenando
Hybridized and Globalized: Youth Cultures in the Postmodern Era
(2003). Hybridized and Globalized: Youth Cultures in the Postmodern Era. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 153-177
Citizen science and post-normal science in a post-truth era: Democratising knowledge; socialising responsibility
The question of how scientific theories, concepts and methods change over time is an enduring issue. Science, like all forms of intellectual activity, can undergo rapid and dramatic periods of chan
Social Education and Mental Hygiene: Foucault, disciplinary technologies and the moral constitution of youth
(2002). Social Education and Mental Hygiene: Foucault, disciplinary technologies and the moral constitution of youth. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 419-433
Philosophers and professors behaving badly: Responses to ‘named or nameless’ by Besley, Jackson & Peters. An Epat collective writing project
Video ethics in educational research involving children: Literature review and critical discussion
Video ethics in educational research involving children is a recent topic that has arisen since the increase in the use of visual mediums in research (such as photovoice and video) especially with the development of new and ubiquitous internet technologies and social media. This paper emerged as an expressed concerned by a group of scholars associated with the new Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy (Brill) that was established in 2016. The p…
Biopolitics, conspiracy and the immuno-state: An evolving global politico-genetic complex
a. The literature on biopolitics emerged 1970s with Michel Foucault’s (1976)‘Right of Death and Power over Life’, part five of The History of Sexuality: An Introduction (Volume 1):For a long time
Named or nameless: University ethics, confidentiality and sexual harassment
This paper focusses on our concerns about revelations about sexual harassment in universities and the inadequate responses whereby some universities seem more concerned about their own reputations than the care and protection of their students. Seldom do cases go to criminal court, instead they mostly fall within employment relations policies where the use of non-disclosure agreements are double edged, such that some perpetrators remain nameless …
Digital archives in the cloud: Collective memory, institutional histories and the politics of information
The archive is a cultural institution that creates a framework for the social and collective memory and as such is one of the collection of knowledge institutions that not only preserves and classifies “texts” but uses them to re-create collective memory and sometimes to invent cultural histories. Like all knowledge institutions, the archive is also a construction deeply implicated in knowledge politics or what Foucault calls power/knowledge. In …
Education as philosophies of engagement
This is Introduction to the PESA conference 2014 held in Hamilton, NZ, is devoted to the conference theme of ‘Education as philosophies of engagement’. We provide a brief analysis of the modern history of ‘philosophies of engagement’ since the Second World War examining the notion of socially responsible writing and teaching
Children in Crisis: Child Poverty and Abuse in New Zealand
Child poverty constitutes a generalized global crisis in both so-called developing and advanced economies. The impact of neo-liberal policies and the impacts of the 2008/9 global economic crisis on
Academic Entrepreneurship and the Creative Economy
This article explores the relationships between several notions: the `creative economy'; New Growth Theory and the primacy of ideas; academic entrepreneurship; and the new paradigm of cultural production. Broadly conceptualized, the creative economy links the primacy of ideas in both arts and sciences in a more embedded and social framework of entrepreneurship which positions education as central, since its institutions are the primary knowledge …
The Theatre of Fast Knowledge: Performative Epistemologies in Higher Education 1
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances... —Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “Conclusion.”
Educational Philosophy and Post-Apocalyptical Survival: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume XIV
Social Education and Mental Hygiene: Foucault, disciplinary technologies and the moral constitution of youth
(2002). Social Education and Mental Hygiene: Foucault, disciplinary technologies and the moral constitution of youth. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 419-433
Hybridized and Globalized: Youth Cultures in the Postmodern Era
(2003). Hybridized and Globalized: Youth Cultures in the Postmodern Era. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 153-177
Self-denial or self-mastery? Foucault's genealogy of the confessional self
When people come to counselling they do so because they identify some issue or problem in their life with which they want help. In the process they reveal, to a greater or lesser extent, various aspects of themselves in a form of confession of the self. Thus, the counselling relationship, although a private one, has performative aspects, whereby the person reveals something of their truth about themselves to the counsellor. How the person and the…
The Theatre of Fast Knowledge: Performative Epistemologies in Higher Education 1
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances... —Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. —Henry David Thoreau, Walden, “Conclusion.”
Jim Marshall: Foucault and disciplining the self
This paper notes how Jim influenced my own use of Foucault and also focuses on two of James Marshall's New Zealand oriented texts. In the first, Discipline and Punishment in New Zealand Education () he provides a Foucauldian genealogy of New Zealand approaches to both punishment and discipline, in particular corporal punishment. The second, his 1996 book co‐written with Michael Peters, Individualism and Community: Education and Social Policy in t…
Michael White Obituary
(2008). Michael White Obituary. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 715-718
Academic Entrepreneurship and the Creative Economy
This article explores the relationships between several notions: the `creative economy'; New Growth Theory and the primacy of ideas; academic entrepreneurship; and the new paradigm of cultural production. Broadly conceptualized, the creative economy links the primacy of ideas in both arts and sciences in a more embedded and social framework of entrepreneurship which positions education as central, since its institutions are the primary knowledge …
Governmentality of Youth: Beyond Cultural Studies
Governmentality Studies in Education
Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality originated in a lecture series in the late 1970s at the Collège de France and soon became the basis for a range of historical and contemporary studies across the social sciences and humanities. The concept in part rests on a simple but powerful idea that links government to the freedom of the subject in a novel understanding of liberal politics. It also provides an analytics of power based on the exami…
Ben Spiecker 1943–2009
(2010). Ben Spiecker 1943–2009. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 42, Tolerance, Respect And Recognition, pp. 1-2
Governmentality of Youth: Managing Risky Subjects
This article poses the question: How do understandings of governmentality play out in discourses of youth? In the twenty-first-century neoliberal contexts of consumer capitalist societies, discourses of youth need now to move beyond the valuable earlier understandings based on psychological and cultural/subcultural studies to harness Foucault's notion of governmentality. In terms of governmentality, if youth cannot or will not control their condu…
Philosophy, Education and the Corruption of Youth—From Socrates to Islamic Extremists
Following Aristotle’s description of youth and brief discussion about indoctrination and parrhesia, the article historicizes Socrates’ trial as the intersection of philosophy, education and a teacher’s influence on youth. It explores the historic-political context and how contemporary Athenians might have viewed Socrates and his student’s actions, whereby his teachings were implicated in three coups led by his former students against Athenian dem…
Education, Dialogue and Interculturalism: New directions and contexts
Editorial - This special issue bring together a set of essays on interculturalism by a range of scholars from around the world
Education America—“Welcome to My Nightmare”
Social Exclusion/Inclusion: Foucault's analytics of exclusion, the political ecology of social inclusion and the legitimation of inclusive education
This article offers a broad philosophical and historical background to the dyad of social exclusion/inclusion by examining the analytics and politics of exclusion first by reference to Michel Foucault who studies the modern history of exclusion and makes it central to his approach in understanding the development of modern institutions of emerging liberal societies. Second, it traces the political ecology (and etiology) of ‘social inclusion’ as a…
Finding Foucault’: Orders of discourse and cultures of the self
The idea of finding Foucault first looks at the many influences on Foucault, including his Nietzschean acclamations. It examines Foucault's critical history of thought, his work on the orders of discourse with his emphasis on being a pluralist: the problem he says that he has set himself is that of the individualization of discourses. Finally, it addresses his work on the culture of the self which became a philosophical and historical question fo…
Children in Crisis: Child Poverty and Abuse in New Zealand
Child poverty constitutes a generalized global crisis in both so-called developing and advanced economies. The impact of neo-liberal policies and the impacts of the 2008/9 global economic crisis on
Global Financial Crisis and educational restructuring
“Financialisation” is a term that describes an economic system or process that attempts to reduce all value that is exchanged (whether tangible, intangible, future, or present promises, etc.) either into a financial instrument or a derivative of a financial instrument. The original intent of financialization is to be able to reduce any work product or service to an exchangeable financial instrument. It is an aspect of increased symbolization, mat…
The Refugee Crisis and The Right to Political Asylum
We Never Expel a Foreigner” – Globalism, Interconnectivity and the Experiment of the Open Society
This paper begins with Popper’s appeal to Pericles of Athens to illustrate the history and philosophy of a political principle of democracy and education that sustains the open society. It considers “globalism” as openness and proposes several dimenions of the concept of openness, before examining “Openness as Liberal Internationalism” and “Global Systems History”
Towards a philosophy of academic publishing
This article is concerned with developing a philosophical approach to a number of significant changes to academic publishing, and specifically the global journal knowledge system wrought by a range of new digital technologies that herald the third age of the journal as an electronic, interactive and mixed-media form of scientific communication. The paper emerges from an Editors' Collective, a small New Zealand-based organisation comprised of edit…
White supremacism: The tragedy of Charlottesville
Charlottesville is a city in Virginia of just over 48,000 people, formed as an act of assembly in 1762. It is home to the University of Virginia designed by Thomas Jefferson and gateway to Shenando
Education as philosophies of engagement
This is Introduction to the PESA conference 2014 held in Hamilton, NZ, is devoted to the conference theme of ‘Education as philosophies of engagement’. We provide a brief analysis of the modern history of ‘philosophies of engagement’ since the Second World War examining the notion of socially responsible writing and teaching
Post-Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education
Pesa President’s foreword for the Epat 50th-anniversary issue
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