Outputs (48)

Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis (2023)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2023). Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis. In T. Lovat, R. Toomey, N. Clement, & K. Dally (Eds.), Second International Research Handbook on Values Education and Student Wellbeing (763-781). Switzerland: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24420-9_43

The last decade has seen distinct ideological shifts in particular geopolitical contexts and in global/local relations across the globe, with increasing instability witnessed in social, political, ecological, material, and economic systems. Efforts t... Read More about Re-Valuing the Shadows: Reimagining Possibilities for Alternative Futures through/with an Agentifying Education for a Planet in Crisis.

Understanding Resilience Capitals, Agency and Habitus in Household Experiences of Water Scarcity, Floods and Fire in Marginalized Settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa (2023)
Other
Ncube, S., Wilson, A., Petersen, L., Black, G. . F., Abrams, A., Carden, K., …Swanson, D. (2023). Understanding Resilience Capitals, Agency and Habitus in Household Experiences of Water Scarcity, Floods and Fire in Marginalized Settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa

A significant percentage of the urban population in most low- and middle-income countries live in informal settlements. Due to poor quality housing, dense settlement patterns and lack of risk reducing infrastructure, informal settlements are least pr... Read More about Understanding Resilience Capitals, Agency and Habitus in Household Experiences of Water Scarcity, Floods and Fire in Marginalized Settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa.

Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality (2022)
Journal Article
le Roux, K., & Swanson, D. M. (2022). Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality. Research in Mathematics Education, 23(3), 323-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794802.2021.1993978

Education commonly is positioned as central to developing citizens who can address so-called global challenges. Responses are identifiable in global citizenship education, which may recruit mathematics into interdisciplinary relationships, and within... Read More about Toward a reflexive mathematics education within local and global relations: thinking from critical scholarship on mathematics education within the sociopolitical, global citizenship education and decoloniality.

(Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swanson, D. M., & le Roux, K. (2021). (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education. In D. Kollosche (Ed.), Exploring new ways to connect: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Mathematics Education and Society Conference (603-612)

Contemporary discourse about the ‘opening’/‘closing’ of schools and what is ‘inside’/‘outside’ the curriculum potentially exacerbates existing inequities in mathematics education. This paper explores how different spatial imaginaries might advance or... Read More about (Re)imagining spatialities for equity in mathematics education.

Global citizenship’s double-facedness: embracing contradiction towards radical hope (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Swanson, D. M., & Gamal, M. (2021, May). Global citizenship’s double-facedness: embracing contradiction towards radical hope. Paper presented at 4th Academic Network on Global Education and Learning (ANGEL) Conference: Pedagogy of Hope and Global Social Justice, London, UK (online)

'Global citizenship’ entered public parlance prominently during heightened globalisation. To be a citizen of this new globalised, interconnected world was to be a subject of capital. Like Janus, a subject of this neoliberal world order was to be both... Read More about Global citizenship’s double-facedness: embracing contradiction towards radical hope.

Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures. (2021)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M., & Gamal, M. (2021). Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 19(4), 456-469. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767724.2021.1904211

'Global citizenship’ entered public parlance prominently during heightened globalisation. To be a citizen of this new globalised, interconnected world was to be a subject of capital. Like Janus, a subject of this neoliberal world order was to be both... Read More about Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures..

Unpacking the purposes and potential of interdisciplinary STEM (2020)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M., & Tytler, R. (2020). Unpacking the purposes and potential of interdisciplinary STEM. In N. Mansour, & H. EL-Deghaidy (Eds.), STEM in Science Education and S in STEM (242-268). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004446076_011

This chapter traces the development of STEM advocacy as a globalizing modernist discourse based in national competitive wealth creation agendas. It therefore addresses the drivers for STEM in schools by way of understanding state and industry intenti... Read More about Unpacking the purposes and potential of interdisciplinary STEM.

De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chronaki, A., & Swanson, D. M. (2019). De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique. In Proceedings of the tenth International Mathematics Education and Society Conference (333-342)

Various interpretations have been given to the double gesture of
de/mathematising in relation to a variety of social thematic contexts demarcating ‘the political’ in mathematics education. By way of theoretical intervention, we offer the beginnings... Read More about De/Mathematising the Political in Mathematics Education: A De/Postcolonial Critique.

Alterities of global citizenship: education, human rights, and everyday bordering (2018)
Journal Article
Swanson, D. M., & Gamal, M. (2018). Alterities of global citizenship: education, human rights, and everyday bordering. Justice, Power and Resistance, 2(2), 357-388

Assumptions abound regarding societal embetterment at the heart of global interconnections and the distributions of knowledge through international educational organisations and structures worldwide (Swanson, 2013; 2015). In schools and higher educat... Read More about Alterities of global citizenship: education, human rights, and everyday bordering.

Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities (2017)
Journal Article
Guion Akdag, E., & Swanson, D. M. (2017). Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities. European Journal of Higher Education, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2017.1388188

This paper provides a critical discussion of internationalisation in Higher Education (HE), and exemplifies a process of uncovering the investments in power and ideology through the partial analysis of four strategic internationalisation documents at... Read More about Ethics, power, internationalisation and the postcolonial: A Foucauldian discourse analysis of policy documents in two Scottish universities.