Christopher Kirchgasler
Biographic Data
| ID | 758799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Kirchgasler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirchgasler |
| SIGNATURE | KIRCHGASLER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1226-0630 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Curiosity as Anti-Standard
Today, appeals to curiosity promise equitable science education affirming the natural potential of minoritized students and expansive pedagogies as an alternative to techno-rationalist achievement standards. By examining curiosity’s history as a psychological object and pedagogical tool, we complicate this received narrative, examining how curiosity often serves as a paradoxical anti-standard —contesting one set of standards while nonetheless imp…
Making the Discriminating Mind
Background: There is a common sense in U.S. education research that the current political moment is one defined by increasing polarization, accusations of educational indoctrination, and concerns of duped minds. To address fears of indoctrination, education research and major educational organizations have renewed calls for civic reasoning, deliberation, and scientific inquiry to foster a more rational, responsible citizenry. Focus of Study: This…
Constellating the global teacher
The biopolitics of tutelage
This article analyses the biopolitics of tutelage in education reforms in colonial Kenya, and traces its residues in contemporary research, policy, and reform. Tutelary biopolitics centres the epistemic rules and principles that organised colonial education research, policy, and reform according to who should be accorded the rights and privileges of citizenship and who could be designated for expropriation, labour, and death. Examining early twen…
Performing a global learning crisis
Developmentalism as colonial residue
Being and Becoming Well in the Most Transparent of Times
This article examines the possibilities and limits of strategies directed toward racialized healing amidst declarations of pandemics and legislative attacks on public school teachers. We question what these strategies take as a self-evident truth: that race and racism can be conceptualized in terms of health and transparently addressed through research and practice focused on racialized healing. To complicate this assertion, we locate the strateg…
The end(s) of inclusion
This article reassesses globalization in light of research, policy, and reforms directed towards ‘the migrant’ during times of crisis. In dialogue with Derrida's discussion of hospitality, the article questions the grounds that figure ‘the migrant’ as a metonym for globalization's dangers – as excess mobility menacing the foundational sovereignty of nation-states. With Sweden as a point of reference, the article interrelates three seemingly disti…
“Girl” in Crisis
Investment in girls’ education is offered as a salve to the Global South that will alleviate poverty, prevent terrorism, and curb gender-based violence. Rather than treat this thesis and its evidentiary basis as axiomatic, we examine some of the conditions for the intelligibility of this crisis, prevalent in much international development and education reform discourse today. Archival study of transnational school reforms in Kenya Colony—specific…
True Grit? Making a Scientific Object and Pedagogical Tool
The educability of personal qualities has garnered attention for its potential to raise student achievement. This investigation asks how one such quality—grit—has become a commonsensical way to think about differences among students. As a history of the present, grit is approached as a cultural thesis that links individualism to narratives of American exceptionalism and historical progress. This thesis is embodied in contemporary school reforms t…
True Grit? Making a Scientific Object and Pedagogical Tool
The educability of personal qualities has garnered attention for its potential to raise student achievement. This investigation asks how one such quality—grit—has become a commonsensical way to think about differences among students. As a history of the present, grit is approached as a cultural thesis that links individualism to narratives of American exceptionalism and historical progress. This thesis is embodied in contemporary school reforms t…
Being and Becoming Well in the Most Transparent of Times
This article examines the possibilities and limits of strategies directed toward racialized healing amidst declarations of pandemics and legislative attacks on public school teachers. We question what these strategies take as a self-evident truth: that race and racism can be conceptualized in terms of health and transparently addressed through research and practice focused on racialized healing. To complicate this assertion, we locate the strateg…
The end(s) of inclusion
This article reassesses globalization in light of research, policy, and reforms directed towards ‘the migrant’ during times of crisis. In dialogue with Derrida's discussion of hospitality, the article questions the grounds that figure ‘the migrant’ as a metonym for globalization's dangers – as excess mobility menacing the foundational sovereignty of nation-states. With Sweden as a point of reference, the article interrelates three seemingly disti…
Performing a global learning crisis
Developmentalism as colonial residue
True Grit? Making a Scientific Object and Pedagogical Tool
The educability of personal qualities has garnered attention for its potential to raise student achievement. This investigation asks how one such quality—grit—has become a commonsensical way to think about differences among students. As a history of the present, grit is approached as a cultural thesis that links individualism to narratives of American exceptionalism and historical progress. This thesis is embodied in contemporary school reforms t…
“Girl” in Crisis
Investment in girls’ education is offered as a salve to the Global South that will alleviate poverty, prevent terrorism, and curb gender-based violence. Rather than treat this thesis and its evidentiary basis as axiomatic, we examine some of the conditions for the intelligibility of this crisis, prevalent in much international development and education reform discourse today. Archival study of transnational school reforms in Kenya Colony—specific…
The end(s) of inclusion
This article reassesses globalization in light of research, policy, and reforms directed towards ‘the migrant’ during times of crisis. In dialogue with Derrida's discussion of hospitality, the article questions the grounds that figure ‘the migrant’ as a metonym for globalization's dangers – as excess mobility menacing the foundational sovereignty of nation-states. With Sweden as a point of reference, the article interrelates three seemingly disti…
Being and Becoming Well in the Most Transparent of Times
This article examines the possibilities and limits of strategies directed toward racialized healing amidst declarations of pandemics and legislative attacks on public school teachers. We question what these strategies take as a self-evident truth: that race and racism can be conceptualized in terms of health and transparently addressed through research and practice focused on racialized healing. To complicate this assertion, we locate the strateg…
Performing a global learning crisis
Developmentalism as colonial residue
Making the Discriminating Mind
Background: There is a common sense in U.S. education research that the current political moment is one defined by increasing polarization, accusations of educational indoctrination, and concerns of duped minds. To address fears of indoctrination, education research and major educational organizations have renewed calls for civic reasoning, deliberation, and scientific inquiry to foster a more rational, responsible citizenry. Focus of Study: This…
Constellating the global teacher
The biopolitics of tutelage
This article analyses the biopolitics of tutelage in education reforms in colonial Kenya, and traces its residues in contemporary research, policy, and reform. Tutelary biopolitics centres the epistemic rules and principles that organised colonial education research, policy, and reform according to who should be accorded the rights and privileges of citizenship and who could be designated for expropriation, labour, and death. Examining early twen…
Curiosity as Anti-Standard
Today, appeals to curiosity promise equitable science education affirming the natural potential of minoritized students and expansive pedagogies as an alternative to techno-rationalist achievement standards. By examining curiosity’s history as a psychological object and pedagogical tool, we complicate this received narrative, examining how curiosity often serves as a paradoxical anti-standard —contesting one set of standards while nonetheless imp…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (3 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works)