Vivienne Bozalek
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 821043 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Vivienne Bozalek |
| NOMBRES | Vivienne |
| APELLIDO | Bozalek |
| FIRMA | BOZALEK V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3212-1910 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 270 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Co-Affective Encounters with the Great African Seaforest
This contribution focuses on our co-affective encounters with the Great African Seaforest in Cape Town, South Africa. We use a diffractive methodology to read Blue Humanities and marine biology texts through critical posthumanism and our freewritings and depictions of our embodied co-affective encounters of swimming and diving in the kelp. Swimming diffractively through such texts, our freewritings and images, we consider how the focus areas iden…
Immanent and diffractive critique for higher education practices
This paper explores how the concepts of immanence and diffraction might generate alternative critical practices in higher education. Expanding on our previous paper entitled ‘Immanent critique and diffractive reading’ [Bozalek, V., and N. Romano. 2023. Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication. Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CriSTaL) 11, no. si1: 1–18], we examine the resonances between immanence and diffraction…
Affective Oceanic Seaswimming and Encounters for Care-Full Environmental Communication
Our oceanic swimming practice began as part of the project of doing scholarship differently in contemporary South African post-apartheid contexts. Swimming-writing-reading not only enables different ways of doing inquiry but also prompts new ways of communicating environmental injustices as we face them in/with/through the ocean. We argue the value of this practice, and the writings we generate and share, for a rethinking and reframing of environ…
Introduction to this special issue
Background: Elmarie Costandius was passionate about pedagogy, particularly from a social justice perspective, throughout her career in higher education. Although located as a senior lecturer in the visual arts programme at Stellenbosch University, she pursued the field of education in her postgraduate studies, when she completed a second Masters Degree in Adult Learning and Global Change in 2007 at the University of the Western Cape, as well as a…
Stopped in the middle” with Elm,arie Costandius
This paper is written in memory of our friend and colleague, Elmarie Costandius, a visual artist and academic, whose untimely and unexpected death deeply affected us. While we had worked with Elmarie in various research projects, short courses, and workshops, over a period of ten years or so, in this article we refer to a series of encounters, in which we came together to explore a decolonial and post qualitative inquiry practice as part of a Sou…
Sensibilities of the Ocean World
Teaching Postqualitatively
The purpose of this article is to explore how teachers, scholars, and mentors teach postqualitatively in diverse ways. Teaching postqualitatively does not easily conform with the delivery of set learning outcomes nor does it seek to measure learner progress or teaching quality in prescriptive and traditional ways. Rather, this kind of teaching could be seen as the task of the impossible and calls for the curious seeker and infinite learner, resem…
Design principles to develop digital innovation skills
The digitisation of the world has led to a multitude of far-reaching implications that require students to be prepared for the dynamic era of rapid change, complexity, fluidity, and ubiquity in which they will work at the forefront of technology. To succeed in this environment, students must be able to design and implement digital innovations within the broader spectrum of digital transformation. Despite the importance of this area, the literatur…
Psychology, the posts, and qualitative research
This thing that we do’
In this paper, we dwell amongst what was agitated from enacting Neimanis' (2012) hydrofeminism in an 'aqueous-body–writing–reading' experiment that unfolded in discrete but entangled locations (London and Cape Town) to actively disrupt and reformulate ideas about what it is to do scholarly work. We consider how we might dislodge anthropocentric ways of knowing, being and doing through our swimming–writing–reading. Aligned with emergent hydrofemin…
Opening commentary to the special issue “becoming ‘bad researchers’
Opening commentary to the special issue "becoming 'bad researchers': putting affect theories to work as ethical processes of disruption" the call for papers for this special issue invited researchers to engage post-qualitative researcher desires for "promiscuous" methodologies (Maclure, 2013), or what has alternatively been thought to be spurious or "bad" research.the editors, Bessie dernikos
Wild Sea Swimming as a Slow Intimacy
Our oceanic swimming-writing-reading together practice coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in South Africa. Awash with vulnerability, precarity, and isolation, oceanic swimming-writing-reading became one of the few ways in which we, as three academics from different higher education institutions, found respite in a practice of care for ourselves and others. Curious as to whether swimming and free writing could ma…
In Conversation With Erin Manning
This paper documents a conversation with Erin Manning in the first webinar of the series Doing Academica Differently: In conversation with Neuroatypicality. Drawing on her scholarship, teaching experience, as well as the more recent 3Ecologies project, Manning shows how systems serve to pathologize by framing difference from the angle of typicality and as a divergence from the norm. She argues, therefore, that it is necessary to move beyond the o…
Doing Academia Differently
This special issue originated from a webinar series made possible through a Tri-Continental (3C) Partnership between the University of the Western Cape, the University of Missouri, and Ghent University. These universities organized a series of webinars on the theme "Doing Academia differently: In conversation with neuroatypicality." The Tri-Continental (3C) Partnership is a trilateral agreement that set out to promote partnership between the thre…
Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry
In this guest co-editors’ introduction to the special issue(s) titled “Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry,” the authors share the backstory to the webinar series, information about the webinars and how to locate the recordings, and how WEBing sessions with our (former) students came from the webinar series. A list of articles and article titles for the special issue(s) are also included
Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication
Criticality and critique require careful attention by authors, reviewers, and editors in Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CRiSTaL), since they form a central focus of the journal. Conventional views of critique are influenced by unexpressed assumptions that what is needed is an authoritative expert, who from a position of superiority and distance, diagnoses and pronounces on the inadequacies of the text. This article explores more gener…
Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication
Criticality and critique require careful attention by authors, reviewers,and editors in Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning(CRiSTaL), since they form a central focus of the journal. Conventional views of critique are influenced by unexpressed assumptions that what is needed is an authoritative expert, who from a position of superiority and distance, diagnoses and pronounces on the inadequaciesof the text. This article explores more generati…
In Conversation with Karen Barad
Haunted Walks of District Six
This article traces a pedagogical trajectory in South African higher education that started in engineering education and leads to walking-as-research. Situated on District Six, a well-known site of apartheid forced removals, a cartographic and diffractive methodology is utilized to trace the development of this pedagogy, as well as walks that have emerged out of mapping the site by means of geographic information system (GIS). We develop proposit…
Doing Academia Differently
This article considers how academic practices such as reading and writing might be reconfigured as creative processes through thinking-with posthuman philosophies and theorists, particularly, but not confined to the works of Karen Barad and Erin Manning. Both Erin Manning and Karen Barad are involved with creative philosophies and practices, albeit from different vantage points. Manning’s work engages with arts-based practices such as research-cr…
Wild Swimming Methodologies for Decolonial Feminist Justice-to-Come Scholarship
This article thinks with oceans and swimming, in dialogue with decolonial feminist materialist approaches and other current novel methodologies which foreground embodiment and relational ontologies, in order to consider the conceptual potential of such diffractions for the project of alternative scholarly practices. We focus on swimming in the sea as one form of wild methodology and Slow scholarship that draws on hauntology to think about the pos…
Touching Matters
This article troubles touch as requiring embodied proximity, through an affective account of virtual touch during coronatime. Interested in doing academia differently, we started an online Barad readingwriting group from different locations. The coronatime void was not a vacuum, but a plenitude of possibilities for intimacy, pedagogy, learning, creativity, and adventure. Although physically apart, we met daily through Zoom, and we touched and wer…
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage
Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics and patriarchal subjectivity. We argue that the modern obstetric subject (doctor or midwife) representing the obstetric institution engulfs the (m)other in a typically modern way as othered, racialised, affectable and outer-determined, i…
Understanding Displacement, (Forced) Migration and Historical Trauma
Feminist new materialist theory has taken up the challenge of reconfiguring politics, ethics and justice in ways that critically account for contemporary forms of materiality, affect and embodiment at work in the contemporary world. There is much at stake in such a project. The crisis of displacement, we argue, is the crisis of capitalism as it impacts on the biosphere of planet earth, necessitating an approach that can account for all the proces…
Anti-Colonial Orientations to Place
The authors bring together decolonial, place attuned, and critical posthumanist orientations to analyze an event during a residential workshop organized as part of a state-funded research project on decolonizing early childhood discourses in South Africa. An invitation during the workshop to grapple with what might be unsettling by attending to the agency of the more-than-human world and its entanglement with unequal human geographies of place, g…
Diffraction or reflection? Sketching the contours of two methodologies in educational research
Internationally, an interest is emerging in a growing body of work on what has become known as ‘diffractive methodologies’ drawing attention to ontological aspects of research. Diffractive methodologies have largely been developed in response to a dissatisfaction with practices of ‘reflexivity’, which are seen to be grounded in a representational paradigm and the epistemological aspects of research. While work on ‘reflexivity’ and ‘critical refle…
Diffraction and response-able reading of texts
In this paper, we use a diffractive reading developed by feminist philosopher and quantum physicist Karen Barad, as part of a response-able methodology, in order to consider the claim made by Serge Hein in his paper ‘The New Materialism in Qualitative Inquiry: How Compatible Are the Philosophies of Barad and Deleuze?’ (2016) that the philosophies of Barad and Deleuze and Guattari are incommensurable. Our point of departure is from a stance which …
Diffracting diffractive readings of texts as methodology
Re-turning to our experiences of putting a diffractive methodology to work ourselves, as well as engaging with the writings of Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, we produce some propositions regarding a diffractive methodology for researchers to consider. Postqualitative research disrupts the idea that educationalists can be given tools or techniques to investigate the world objectively, independently and at an ontological distance from the researche…
Tronto's notion ofprivileged irresponsibilityand the reconceptualisation of care
This article takes on some of care theorist Joan Tronto's ideas on care and responsibility and asks what implications they have for critical pedagogies in higher education. The authors argue that Tronto's political ethics of care framework enriches the transformative potential of critical pedagogies, because it helps expose how power and emotion operate through (ir)responsibility. In particular, Tronto's notion of 'privileged irresponsibility' is…
Ah, but the whiteys love to talk about themselves’
This article reports on an interdisciplinary and collaborative educational module prepared for fourth‐year Psychology and Social Work students at two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa. The aim of the module was to provide students with the opportunity to experience learning across the boundaries of institution, discipline, language, race and class, and to provide the team with data to enhance understanding of how stu…
Slow scholarship in writing retreats
The corporatization of universities has led to increasing pressure on academics to publish as quickly and prolifically as possible. Writing retreats have been used as one way of ensuring the production of academic papers by providing spaces for academics to write, and pressurizing them to publish shortly thereafter. This paper provides an alternative way of viewing and conducting writing retreats – that of Slow scholarship, which foregrounds atte…
Contextualizing Caring in Black South African Families
Although South African society is now in a state of transition, the legacy of the past remains. Black families have been affected profoundly by apartheid policies, and this has impacted on caring relationships. These families have survived through the paid and unpaid labor of their members and through the sharing of resources. In this paper I examine caring in the families of a group of black, South African social work students in relation to the…
(Mis)framing Higher Education in South Africa
The question of how to make higher education more inclusive has been a central concern in South Africa and elsewhere over the past two decades. However, in South Africa there remains a disjuncture between policy aimed at promoting inclusivity and the experiences of students and staff in the higher education sector. In this article, the relationship between equity of access and equity of outcomes and the expectations that follow from these policy …
Acknowledging privilege through encounters with difference
Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) research techniques can contribute to decolonising methodologies by alerting participants to privilege and marginalisation through encounters across difference. Consciousness of privileges is often obscured and naturalised as part of normative expectations of everyday living. This paper contends that no one is exempt from interrogating their positionality and their beliefs, and that PLA research techniques …
South African Social Welfare Policy
New policies have been developed in South Africa since the demise of apartheid. This article examines one of these policy documents - the White Paper for Social Welfare - using the lens of a feminist political ethic of care. The ethic of care is used to trace the normative framework of this policy document and to make judgements about how adequately issues of care, welfare and citizenship are dealt with. Policy texts display authoritative ways of…
Encountering the Other across the Divides
This article is based on an ethnographic study conducted in a South African church following the May 2008 xenophobic violence and subsequent displacement of over 100,000 foreigners. It explores the relationships between a group of established, privileged members of the church and a group of displaced refugees, who had found shelter in the church. Our aim is to contribute to an enriched conceptualisation of social justice for social work with refu…
Wild Swimming Methodologies for Decolonial Feminist Justice-to-Come Scholarship
This article thinks with oceans and swimming, in dialogue with decolonial feminist materialist approaches and other current novel methodologies which foreground embodiment and relational ontologies, in order to consider the conceptual potential of such diffractions for the project of alternative scholarly practices. We focus on swimming in the sea as one form of wild methodology and Slow scholarship that draws on hauntology to think about the pos…
Obstetric violence within students’ rite of passage
Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how the obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- and necropolitics and patriarchal subjectivity. We argue that the modern obstetric subject (doctor or midwife) representing the obstetric institution engulfs the (m)other in a typically modern way as othered, racialised, affectable and outer-determined, i…
Productive faces of shame
Shame has typically been understood as a negative emotion, a view which is prevalent in individualist, psychologising discourses about human experience. Elspeth Probyn's approach to shame departs significantly from these tropes. As interviewers, we share a common interest in feminist ethics and productive affects in teaching and scholarship. Hence, our specific interest in Probyn's Blush: Faces of Shame. Blush is an excellent example of viewing t…
Diffracting socially just pedagogies through stained glass
This article emerges from our relationship with Theo Combrinck, a colleague, a passionate social and academic activist, a recovering addict and a PhD student, who left our living space during 2014 -a death that was unexpected yet a consequence of an iterative desire to end a troubled/ing life. The intensity of Theo's physical absence retains a vibrant presence and continues to intra-act with us as we consider socially just pedagogies. Theo's work…
Communities isn't just about trees and shops”
The question of what constitutes ‘a community’ or even ‘ the community’ takes on an extra salience in a divided society such as South Africa where the entire environment remains imprinted with the legacy of enforced segregation along racial lines. Higher education institutions need to prepare emerging health and social service students for the world of practice in a context of diversity, continuing segregation and marked inequality. As one step t…
(Re)searching Difference
Jacky Sunde and Vivienne Bozalek explore further the debate on whether women in differing positions of power can teach and write about the experiences of other women
Addressing dualisms in student perceptions of a historically white and black university in South Africa
Normative discourses about higher education institutions may perpetuate stereotypes about institutions. Few studies explore student perceptions of universities and how transformative pedagogical interventions in university classrooms may address institutional stereotypes. Using Plumwood’s notion of dualism, this qualitative study analyses unchallenged stereotypes about students’ own and another university during an inter-institutional collaborati…
Ageing and intergenerational care
This Article uses the political ethics of care and feminist gerontology as theoretical frameworks to examine ageing and intergenerational care within a life course perspective. A brief review of research on caregiving across the generations, but specifically focusing on care and the elderly is presented. The Article draws on data on family care from a South African study in which women as grandmothers are seen to be both caregivers and care recei…
It Doesn't Matter Who or What We are, We are Still Just People’
South Africa, after decades of apartheid, continues to be a highly segregated society. Higher education institutions need to prepare students for work in such a divided society. Recent work on inter-group contact has stressed the importance of taking into account people's interpretation and meanings about contact in particular contexts, and the need for contact to involve dialogue about socio-historical situations. This article reports on a colla…
The Effect of Institutional Racism on Student Family Circumstances
In apartheid South Africa institutional racism was embedded in the practice of rationing resources and power in order to achieve social exclusion through formally legitimated state policies. In this article, Nussbaum's list of human capabilities is used as a framework for analysing and presenting data from student accounts of institutional racism. Social work students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, compiled their own F…
This thing that we do’
In this paper, we dwell amongst what was agitated from enacting Neimanis' (2012) hydrofeminism in an 'aqueous-body–writing–reading' experiment that unfolded in discrete but entangled locations (London and Cape Town) to actively disrupt and reformulate ideas about what it is to do scholarly work. We consider how we might dislodge anthropocentric ways of knowing, being and doing through our swimming–writing–reading. Aligned with emergent hydrofemin…
Wild Sea Swimming as a Slow Intimacy
Our oceanic swimming-writing-reading together practice coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in South Africa. Awash with vulnerability, precarity, and isolation, oceanic swimming-writing-reading became one of the few ways in which we, as three academics from different higher education institutions, found respite in a practice of care for ourselves and others. Curious as to whether swimming and free writing could ma…
Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication
Criticality and critique require careful attention by authors, reviewers, and editors in Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning (CRiSTaL), since they form a central focus of the journal. Conventional views of critique are influenced by unexpressed assumptions that what is needed is an authoritative expert, who from a position of superiority and distance, diagnoses and pronounces on the inadequacies of the text. This article explores more gener…
Understanding Displacement, (Forced) Migration and Historical Trauma
Feminist new materialist theory has taken up the challenge of reconfiguring politics, ethics and justice in ways that critically account for contemporary forms of materiality, affect and embodiment at work in the contemporary world. There is much at stake in such a project. The crisis of displacement, we argue, is the crisis of capitalism as it impacts on the biosphere of planet earth, necessitating an approach that can account for all the proces…
(Re)searching Difference
Jacky Sunde and Vivienne Bozalek explore further the debate on whether women in differing positions of power can teach and write about the experiences of other women
(Re)searching difference
The Smallest Democracy
Maintenance Grant Parity
Contextualizing Caring in Black South African Families
Although South African society is now in a state of transition, the legacy of the past remains. Black families have been affected profoundly by apartheid policies, and this has impacted on caring relationships. These families have survived through the paid and unpaid labor of their members and through the sharing of resources. In this paper I examine caring in the families of a group of black, South African social work students in relation to the…
South African Social Welfare Policy
New policies have been developed in South Africa since the demise of apartheid. This article examines one of these policy documents - the White Paper for Social Welfare - using the lens of a feminist political ethic of care. The ethic of care is used to trace the normative framework of this policy document and to make judgements about how adequately issues of care, welfare and citizenship are dealt with. Policy texts display authoritative ways of…
Communities isn't just about trees and shops”
The question of what constitutes ‘a community’ or even ‘ the community’ takes on an extra salience in a divided society such as South Africa where the entire environment remains imprinted with the legacy of enforced segregation along racial lines. Higher education institutions need to prepare emerging health and social service students for the world of practice in a context of diversity, continuing segregation and marked inequality. As one step t…
It Doesn't Matter Who or What We are, We are Still Just People’
South Africa, after decades of apartheid, continues to be a highly segregated society. Higher education institutions need to prepare students for work in such a divided society. Recent work on inter-group contact has stressed the importance of taking into account people's interpretation and meanings about contact in particular contexts, and the need for contact to involve dialogue about socio-historical situations. This article reports on a colla…
Global Ethics for Social Work
This piece comprises short presentations given by contributors to a symposium organized by the journal Ethics & Social Welfare on the theme of global ethics for social work. The contributors offer their reflections on the extent to which universally accepted international statements of ethical principles in social work are possible or useful, engaging with debates about cultural diversity, relativism and the relevance of human rights in non-Weste…
E-learning
English Exploration of the impact of cultural and economic factors on the personal and professional identities of adult learners as critical friends across geographical locations becomes possible through e-learning. Correspondence between adult learners can create a space for intellectual and emotional sharing, thus enhancing the learners’ abilities to function reflexively as professional practitioners. French L’apprentissage électronique permet …
Ah, but the whiteys love to talk about themselves’
This article reports on an interdisciplinary and collaborative educational module prepared for fourth‐year Psychology and Social Work students at two higher education institutions in the Western Cape, South Africa. The aim of the module was to provide students with the opportunity to experience learning across the boundaries of institution, discipline, language, race and class, and to provide the team with data to enhance understanding of how stu…
The Effect of Institutional Racism on Student Family Circumstances
In apartheid South Africa institutional racism was embedded in the practice of rationing resources and power in order to achieve social exclusion through formally legitimated state policies. In this article, Nussbaum's list of human capabilities is used as a framework for analysing and presenting data from student accounts of institutional racism. Social work students at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa, compiled their own F…
Acknowledging privilege through encounters with difference
Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) research techniques can contribute to decolonising methodologies by alerting participants to privilege and marginalisation through encounters across difference. Consciousness of privileges is often obscured and naturalised as part of normative expectations of everyday living. This paper contends that no one is exempt from interrogating their positionality and their beliefs, and that PLA research techniques …
Ageing and intergenerational care
This Article uses the political ethics of care and feminist gerontology as theoretical frameworks to examine ageing and intergenerational care within a life course perspective. A brief review of research on caregiving across the generations, but specifically focusing on care and the elderly is presented. The Article draws on data on family care from a South African study in which women as grandmothers are seen to be both caregivers and care recei…
(Mis)framing Higher Education in South Africa
The question of how to make higher education more inclusive has been a central concern in South Africa and elsewhere over the past two decades. However, in South Africa there remains a disjuncture between policy aimed at promoting inclusivity and the experiences of students and staff in the higher education sector. In this article, the relationship between equity of access and equity of outcomes and the expectations that follow from these policy …
Encountering the Other across the Divides
This article is based on an ethnographic study conducted in a South African church following the May 2008 xenophobic violence and subsequent displacement of over 100,000 foreigners. It explores the relationships between a group of established, privileged members of the church and a group of displaced refugees, who had found shelter in the church. Our aim is to contribute to an enriched conceptualisation of social justice for social work with refu…
Editrorial
We are delighted to be bringing out this first edition of Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning. The planning for the journal began some four years back at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, as part of the renewal of emphasis on the scholarship of teaching and learning at the institution. An editorial committee was formed by academics mainly from UWC and the other three higher education institutions in Cape Town, - Brenda …
Assuming Responsibility for Justice in the Context of South Africa's Refugee Receiving Regime
This paper explores Iris Marion Young's social connection model of responsibility for justice. Its purpose is to contribute to the development of an ethics of responsibility for social work and other caring professions. Our arguments are grounded in an auto-ethnographic study conducted in 2008 by one of the authors while practicing as a social worker with a South African refugee services provider. We ask: What did it mean for the care workers to …
Tronto's notion ofprivileged irresponsibilityand the reconceptualisation of care
This article takes on some of care theorist Joan Tronto's ideas on care and responsibility and asks what implications they have for critical pedagogies in higher education. The authors argue that Tronto's political ethics of care framework enriches the transformative potential of critical pedagogies, because it helps expose how power and emotion operate through (ir)responsibility. In particular, Tronto's notion of 'privileged irresponsibility' is…
Addressing dualisms in student perceptions of a historically white and black university in South Africa
Normative discourses about higher education institutions may perpetuate stereotypes about institutions. Few studies explore student perceptions of universities and how transformative pedagogical interventions in university classrooms may address institutional stereotypes. Using Plumwood’s notion of dualism, this qualitative study analyses unchallenged stereotypes about students’ own and another university during an inter-institutional collaborati…
Diffraction or reflection? Sketching the contours of two methodologies in educational research
Internationally, an interest is emerging in a growing body of work on what has become known as ‘diffractive methodologies’ drawing attention to ontological aspects of research. Diffractive methodologies have largely been developed in response to a dissatisfaction with practices of ‘reflexivity’, which are seen to be grounded in a representational paradigm and the epistemological aspects of research. While work on ‘reflexivity’ and ‘critical refle…
Diffracting socially just pedagogies through stained glass
This article emerges from our relationship with Theo Combrinck, a colleague, a passionate social and academic activist, a recovering addict and a PhD student, who left our living space during 2014 -a death that was unexpected yet a consequence of an iterative desire to end a troubled/ing life. The intensity of Theo's physical absence retains a vibrant presence and continues to intra-act with us as we consider socially just pedagogies. Theo's work…
Developing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning through a Community of Enquiry
A growing interest in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education has created a need to seek opportunities for its development both within and across disciplines and institutions. However, rewards for individual competitiveness in research publications, including the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), tend to discourage collaboration, which we argue could be highly conducive to the development of SoTL. This paper…
A politics of shame
Slow scholarship in writing retreats
The corporatization of universities has led to increasing pressure on academics to publish as quickly and prolifically as possible. Writing retreats have been used as one way of ensuring the production of academic papers by providing spaces for academics to write, and pressurizing them to publish shortly thereafter. This paper provides an alternative way of viewing and conducting writing retreats – that of Slow scholarship, which foregrounds atte…
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