In this episode, CSE speaks with Dr Sophie Rudolph from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her paper, Carceral logics and education, proposes a new conceptual lens for understanding issues of racialised discipline and school exclusion that takes into consideration the foundational carceral logics of the settler colonial state. By bringing together carceral state, settler colonial and critical Indigenous studies literatures I demonstrate how the settler colonial carceral state is driven by racial capitalism and the white possessive and how this impacts schooling. With a focus on Australia, but drawing connections to other British settler colonial contexts, I propose school discipline is connected to raced carceral logics, through relations of: 1) crisis, safety, and security; 2) containment and control; 3) policing and surveillance. I argue that by examining the carceral logics of the state that underpin school discipline and exclusion, it is possible to shift attention onto structural violences that impact racialised young people in schools, rather than expecting such students to be included into a violent system.
Rudolph, S. (2023). Carceral logics and education. Critical Studies in Education, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2022.2153373
In this episode CSE speaks with Dr Liana Macdonald from Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. Her paper with Dr Joanna Kidman, Uncanny pedagogies: teaching difficult histories at sites of colonial violence, was published in Critical Studies in Education Issue 1 for 2022. In that paper, they introduce the notion of a settler colonial crypt to show how settler memory and forgetting of colonial violence can be challenged and transformed by Māori tribal memories. The introduction of difficult histories at sites of colonial violence is accompanied by the uncanny; intellectual, emotional and embodied experiences that are uncomfortable and frightening, yet stimulating and inspiring, to generate new ways of considering settler-Indigenous relations. Data from a large-scale ethnographic study exploring how different groups in New Zealand remember or forget the New Zealand Wars reveal how secondary school students were directed towards the uncanny during a field trip. The excursion demonstrates the potential for transforming understandings about how invasion and violence accompanied settlement, providing the impetus for something-to-be-done and setting the groundwork for genuine attempts at reconciliation.
MacDonald, L., & Kidman, J. (2021). Uncanny pedagogies: teaching difficult histories at sites of colonial violence. Critical Studies in Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2021.1923543
In this episode CSE speaks with Dr Karen Gravett, from the Surrey Institute of Education. Her paper Feedback literacies as sociomaterial practice was published in our most recent issue and explores a re-conceptualisation of feedback literacy and of learning and teaching interactions. We also ask what advice Karen has for authors as they engage with feedback from peer-review.
Gravett, K. (2022). Feedback literacies as sociomaterial practice. Critical Studies in Education, 63(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2020.1747099
Professor Trevor Gale recently stepped down as editor in chief of Critical Studies in Education after nearly 20 years guiding the journal. In this conversation, Trevor reflects on the mission of CSE, the concerns of critical sociology of education more broadly, and how things have changed during his time as editor.
Articles mentioned this episode:
Gale, T. (2006). Editorial. Melbourne Studies in Education, 47(1-2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480609556430
Lingard, B., & Gale, T. (2007). The emergent structure of feeling: what does it mean for critical educational studies and research? Critical Studies in Education, 48(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480601131456
Savage, G. C., Gerrard, J., Gale, T., & Molla, T. (2021). The politics of critical policy sociology: mobilities, moorings and elite networks. Critical Studies in Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2021.1878467
Professor Trevor Gale recently stepped down as editor in chief of Critical Studies in Education after nearly 20 years guiding the journal. In this conversation, Trevor takes us through the history of the journal during his time as editor, up to the point when it changed its name from Melbourne Studies in Education to Critical Studies in Education.
Articles mentioned this episode:
Gale, T. (2006). Editorial. Melbourne Studies in Education, 47(1-2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480609556430
Lingard, B., & Gale, T. (2007). The emergent structure of feeling: what does it mean for critical educational studies and research? Critical Studies in Education, 48(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508480601131456
Savage, G. C., Gerrard, J., Gale, T., & Molla, T. (2021). The politics of critical policy sociology: mobilities, moorings and elite networks. Critical Studies in Education, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2021.1878467
This episode Anna speaks with Michalinos Zembylas about his paper 'Political depression, cruel optimism and pedagogies of reparation: questions of criticality and affect in human rights education', available at https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2016.1176065