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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)
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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.

Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures. (2021)
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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..

Alterities of global citizenship: education, human rights, and everyday bordering (2018)
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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)
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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.

Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally (2017)
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Swanson, D. M., Yu, H. L., & Mouroutsou, S. (2017). Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally. Social Inclusion, 5(3), 172-182. https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v5i3.984

Mathematics education has been notoriously slow at interpreting inclusion in ways that are not divisive. Dominant views of educational inclusion in school mathematics classrooms have been shaped by social constructions of ability. These particularly... Read More about Inclusion as Ethics, Equity and/or Human Rights? Spotlighting School Mathematics Practices in Scotland and Globally.

Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis (2017)
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Swanson, D. M. (in press). Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis. Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 10(1), 7-15. https://doi.org/10.21423/jume-v10i1a337

More and more, standardized, efficiencies-based, and surveillance-driven modus operandi are prescriptively defining the interests of the individual and collective in terms of market-driven imperatives in consonance with the demands of the nation stat... Read More about Mathematics Education and the Problem of Political Forgetting: In Search of Research Methodologies for Global Crisis.

Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-epistemology of Conscience (2015)
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Swanson, D. M. (2015). Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-epistemology of Conscience. Journal of Critical Southern Studies, 3, Article 96-118

Via the evocation of a lived narrative related to witnessing Middle Eastern refugees’ attempts at entering into the European Union in September 2015, I draw connections between the political, ethical, spiritual and embodied, recognising their always-... Read More about Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-epistemology of Conscience.

Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-Epistemology of Conscience (2015)
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Swanson, D. M. (2015). Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-Epistemology of Conscience. Journal of Critical Southern Studies, 3, 96-118

Via the evocation of a lived narrative related to witnessing Middle Eastern refugees’ attempts at entering into the European Union in September 2015, I draw connections between the political, ethical, spiritual and embodied, recognising their always-... Read More about Ubuntu, Radical Hope, and an Onto-Epistemology of Conscience.

Roots/Routes (2008)
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Swanson, D. M. (2008). Roots/Routes. Qualitative Inquiry, 15(1), 49-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800408321631

This narrative and poetic rendering acts as an articulation of a journey of many routes. It is a storying of critical research issues and events as performances of lived experience. It is a métissage of hybrid, but interrelated, themes that find cohe... Read More about Roots/Routes.

Teaching Mathematics in Two Independent School Contexts: The Construction of "Good Practice" (2000)
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Swanson, D. M. (2000). Teaching Mathematics in Two Independent School Contexts: The Construction of "Good Practice". Educational Insights, 6(1),

This paper compares constructions of mathematics teaching and learning practices in two geographically different school contexts. It looks at the constructions of "good practice" within the schooling communities across these two contexts and describe... Read More about Teaching Mathematics in Two Independent School Contexts: The Construction of "Good Practice".