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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.

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.

Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (2017)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M., & Gamal, M. (2017). Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence. In The Implications of `New Populism' For Education. Stroud: E&E Publishing

Through a critical examination of Scottish curricular policies and practices, this chapter addresses the ways in which nationalist popul(ar)ism assembles a range of identities, discourses and representations of the Scottish nation. It argues that the... Read More about Nation state, popul(ar)ism, and discourses of global citizenship: examples from Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence.

Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation (2016)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2016). Democracy, Education, and a Politics of Indignation. In P. R. Carr, P. Thomas, B. J. Porfilio, & J. A. Gorlewski (Eds.), Democracy and Decency: What does Education have to do with it? (21-37). Information Age Publishing

Frames of Ubuntu: (Re)framing an ethical education (2015)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. (2015). Frames of Ubuntu: (Re)framing an ethical education. In H. Smits, & R. Naqvi (Eds.), Framing Peace: Thinking about and Enacting Curriculum as "Radical Hope". Peter Lang International Academic Publishers

The owl spreads its wings: Global and international education within the local from critical perspectives (2013)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. (2013). The owl spreads its wings: Global and international education within the local from critical perspectives. In Y. Hébert, & A. A. Abdi (Eds.), Critical Perspectives on International Education (333-347). SensePublishers

Within an era of a New Knowledge Society, assumptions abound regarding the ‘goodness’ and justice of global interconnections and distributions of knowledge through international educational organizations and structures worldwide. Just as George Bush... Read More about The owl spreads its wings: Global and international education within the local from critical perspectives.

From Text to Pretext: An Ethical Turn in Curriculum Work (2012)
Book Chapter
Maheux, J., Swanson, D., & Khan, S. (2012). From Text to Pretext: An Ethical Turn in Curriculum Work. In T. C. Mason, & R. J. Helfenbein (Eds.), Ethics and International Curriculum Work: The Challenges of Culture and Context (143-172). Information Age Publishing

Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development (2012)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2012). Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development. In H. K. Wright, & A. A. Abdi (Eds.), The Dialectics of African Education and Western Discourses (27-52). New York: Peter Lang

This chapter is a discussion in three parts and a closing argument. It begins with a discussion on development and references some of the philosophical difficulties with its Western-inspired conceptualization and ideological deployment in the African... Read More about Ubuntu, African Epistemology, and Development.

Parallaxes and paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course. (2011)
Book Chapter
Swanson, D. M. (2011). Parallaxes and paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course. In L. Shultz, A. A. Abdi, & G. H. Richardson (Eds.), Global Citizenship Education in Post Secondary Institutions: Theories, Practices, Policies (120-139). New York: Peter Lang

"Global citizenship" has become a popular term in recent times. Often its deployment is intended to evoke the full ambit of intersectionalities of the global justices. An interest in the concept and its rationalization in the contemporary era are mar... Read More about Parallaxes and paradoxes of Global Citizenship: Critical reflections and possibilities of praxis in/through an international online course..