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Challenging Complacency in K–12 Climate Change Education in Canada: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives for Designing Curricula beyond Sustainable Development (2022)
Book Chapter
Jeannie, K., & Amsler, S. (2022). Challenging Complacency in K–12 Climate Change Education in Canada: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives for Designing Curricula beyond Sustainable Development. In A. J. Farrell, C. Skyhar, & M. Lam (Eds.), Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the Face of Environmental Crisis. Canadian Scholars' Press

This chapter explores how decolonial and Indigenous perspectives on today’s climate crisis can enable teachers and educational leaders to design curricula for climate change and environmental education that prioritizes pressing problems of humans’ re... Read More about Challenging Complacency in K–12 Climate Change Education in Canada: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives for Designing Curricula beyond Sustainable Development.

Challenging Complacency in K–12 Climate Change Education in Canada: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives for Designing Curricula beyond Sustainable Development (2022)
Book Chapter
Amsler, S., & Kerr, J. (2022). Challenging Complacency in K–12 Climate Change Education in Canada: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives for Designing Curricula beyond Sustainable Development. In A. J. Farrell, C. Skyhar, & M. Lam (Eds.), Teaching in the Anthropocene: Education in the Face of Environmental Crisis. Canada: Canadian Scholars Press

This new critical volume presents various perspectives on teaching and teacher education in the face of the global climate crisis, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Teaching in the Anthropocene calls for a reorientation of the aims of... Read More about Challenging Complacency in K–12 Climate Change Education in Canada: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives for Designing Curricula beyond Sustainable Development.

“Who else is gonna do it if we don't?” Gender, education, and the crisis of care in the 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike (2021)
Journal Article
Hanrahan, N. W., & Amsler, S. (2022). “Who else is gonna do it if we don't?” Gender, education, and the crisis of care in the 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike. Gender, Work and Organization, 29(1), 151-166. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12739

In 2018, a sequence of powerful education strikes and work stoppages across the United States sent shock waves through the country's public education system. This eruption of collective workers' organization was strongly led by women teachers respond... Read More about “Who else is gonna do it if we don't?” Gender, education, and the crisis of care in the 2018 West Virginia teachers' strike.

The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities (2020)
Journal Article
Simpson, D., & Amsler, S. (2020). The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities. Foucault Studies, 1(28), 36-70. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v1i28.6073

Applying Foucault's concepts of disciplinary power and technologies of the self to the experiences of social work academics in English universities, this articles reveals their carceral existences, arguing that social work academics and their student... Read More about The carceral existence of social work academics: a Foucauldian analysis of social work education in English universities.

Learn like witches: gesturing towards Further Education otherwise (2020)
Book Chapter
Amsler, S. (2020). Learn like witches: gesturing towards Further Education otherwise. In M. Daley, K. Orr, & J. Petrie (Eds.), Caliban's Dance: FE after The Tempest. London: UCL IOE Press

This chapter starts from the eye of a storm for global existence. The earth is warming towards catastrophic temperatures, species are disappearing, lifestyles in the global North continue to demand extraction and death from the South, governments ref... Read More about Learn like witches: gesturing towards Further Education otherwise.

Interculturality in Teacher Education in Times of Unprecedented Global Challenges (2020)
Journal Article
Amsler, S., Kerr, J., & Andreotti, V. (2020). Interculturality in Teacher Education in Times of Unprecedented Global Challenges. Education and Society, 38(1), 13-37. https://doi.org/10.7459/es/38.1.02

As societies face unprecedented challenges that are global in scope and "more-than-wicked" in nature, educators and educational policy makers emphasize the importance of deepening knowledge about the causes of these problems, creating policies to add... Read More about Interculturality in Teacher Education in Times of Unprecedented Global Challenges.

Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far (2020)
Journal Article
Stein, S., Andreotti, V., Suša, R., Amsler, S., Hunt, D., Ahenakew, C., …Okano, H. (2020). Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far. Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education, 4(1), 43-65. https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.3518

In this article we review learnings from our collaborative efforts to engage with the complexities and challenges of decolonization across varied educational contexts. To do so, we consider multiple interpretations of decolonization, and multiple dim... Read More about Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures: Reflections on Our Learnings Thus Far.

Critique and possibility in cultural sociology (2018)
Book Chapter
Weiss-Hanrahan, N., & Amsler, S. (2018). Critique and possibility in cultural sociology. In L. Grindstaff, M. M. Lo, & J. R. Hall (Eds.), Routledge handbook of cultural sociology, 64-72. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Critique and judgment were once regarded as the distinguishing features of an emancipatory social science, yet their role in the study of culture has become contested in recent years. Cultural sociologists became disenchanted with critical theory in... Read More about Critique and possibility in cultural sociology.

Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’ (2018)
Journal Article
Amsler, S. (2018). Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’. tripleC: Communication, Capitalism and Critique, 16(2), 775-781. https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v16i2.1042

This article presents a report on the international conference ‘Beyond University: Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’, organised by the Kocaeli Dayanışma Akademisi (Kocaeli Academy for Solidarity) in Kocaeli, Turkey on 30-31 March 2018.... Read More about Organising an alternative university: a reflection on the conference ‘Critical, Emancipatory and Solidarist Endeavors’.

Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times (2018)
Journal Article
Andreotti, V., Stein, S., Sutherland, A., Pashby, K., Susa, R., & Amsler, S. (2018). Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times

In this article we present four social cartographies with the intention to contribute to different conversations about global justice and education. The cartographies aim to invite curiosity, depth, reflexivity, openness, and the expansion of sensib... Read More about Mobilising different conversations about global justice in education: toward alternative futures in uncertain times.

Institutional Strategies of Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Differentiating to Survive Between State and Market (2018)
Book Chapter
Shadymanova, S., & Amsler, S. (2018). Institutional Strategies of Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Differentiating to Survive Between State and Market. In J. Huisman, A. Smolentseva, & I. Froumin (Eds.), 25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries: Reform and Continuity (229-257). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52980-6_9

© 2018, The Author(s). Between 1991 and today, the Soviet system of state-funded and Communist Party controlled higher education institutions (HEIs) in Kyrgyzstan has been transformed into an expansive, diverse, unequal, semiprivatized and marketized... Read More about Institutional Strategies of Higher Education Reform in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan: Differentiating to Survive Between State and Market.

Introduction to ‘Learning the future otherwise: emerging approaches to critical anticipation in education’ (2017)
Journal Article
Amsler, S., & Facer, K. (2017). Introduction to ‘Learning the future otherwise: emerging approaches to critical anticipation in education’. Futures, 94, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2017.09.004

In November 2015, a gathering was convened in Italy to explore how to ‘improve the resilience of societies facing threats from a global proliferation of agents and forces by articulating uncertainties through anticipatory processes’ (Project Anticipa... Read More about Introduction to ‘Learning the future otherwise: emerging approaches to critical anticipation in education’.

What do we mean when we say “democracy”’?: learning towards a common future through popular higher education (2017)
Book Chapter
Amsler, S. (2017). What do we mean when we say “democracy”’?: learning towards a common future through popular higher education. In R. Howarth (Ed.), Out of the ruins: the emergence of radical informal learning spaces. PM Press

This chapter explores how a small project in popular higher education presents both opportunities and challenges for learning new democratic subjectivities and social relationships that challenge neoliberal forms. It draws on my experiences as a memb... Read More about What do we mean when we say “democracy”’?: learning towards a common future through popular higher education.

The marketised university and the politics of motherhood (2017)
Journal Article
Amsler, S., & Motta, S. C. (2019). The marketised university and the politics of motherhood. Gender and Education, 31(1), 82-99. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2017.1296116

© 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. In this paper, we offer a critique of neoliberal power from the perspective of the gendered, sexualised, raced and classed politics of motherhood in English universities. By usin... Read More about The marketised university and the politics of motherhood.

‘Insane with courage’: free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Amsler, S. (2017). ‘Insane with courage’: free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective. Learning and Teaching, 10(1), https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2017.100102

This article considers the role of experiments in learning in movements to democratise higher education ‘under the rule of capital’ (Gutierrez, Navarro and Linsalata 2017). It focuses on the emergence of a new generation of ‘free universities’ in the... Read More about ‘Insane with courage’: free university experiments and the struggle for higher education in historical perspective.

Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future (2017)
Journal Article
Amsler, S., & Facer, K. (in press). Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future. Futures, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2017.01.001

Advanced capitalist societies are characterized by three forms of power and powerlessness: a hegemony of political monoculture; the ‘undoing’ of democratic forms of political agency and subjects; and the ‘political construction of hopelessness’ in ch... Read More about Contesting anticipatory regimes in education: exploring alternative educational orientations to the future.

Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society (2016)
Book Chapter
Amsler, S. (2016). Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society. In A. C. Dinerstein (Ed.), Social Sciences for an Other Politics: Women Theorizing Without Parachutes (19-32). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_2

© The Author(s) 2016. Drawing on the critical theories of Ernst Bloch and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, as well as on the knowledge and learning practices of counter-capitalist social movements, Amsler’s chapter offers a reading of political hopelessne... Read More about Learning Hope. An Epistemology of Possibility for Advanced Capitalist Society.

Facilitating LGBT medical, health and social care content in higher education teaching (2015)
Journal Article
Davy, Z., Amsler, S., & Duncombe, K. (2015). Facilitating LGBT medical, health and social care content in higher education teaching. Qualitative Research in Education, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.4471/qre.2015.1210

Increasingly, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) health care is becoming an important quality assurance feature of primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare in Britain. While acknowledging these very positive developments, teaching LGBT... Read More about Facilitating LGBT medical, health and social care content in higher education teaching.

The education of radical democracy (2015)
Book
AMSLER, S. (2015). The education of radical democracy. London: Routledge

Exploring examples of projects from the nineteenth century to the present day, the book sheds light on a wealth of critical tools, research studies, theoretical concepts and practical methods. It offers a critical reading of the ‘crisis of hope’ in n... Read More about The education of radical democracy.