Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1

Bernadette Baker is a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her work draws upon philosophy, history, comparative cosmology, and sociology as they intersect with curriculum studies, educational history and philosophy, and policies and practices focused on well-being, new technologies, and the effects of power. Antti Saari is Associate Professor (tenure track) at Tampere University Faculty of Education and Culture. Saari’s studies on educational research and governance have analyzed how transnational discourses of educational research and expert knowledge are translated to practices of evaluation, classroom management, and the use of instructional technology. Liang Wang received her Ph.D. degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2022. She conducts transdisciplinary research in the transformation of education through digital technology, especially the digital recontouring of structural marginalization amid national and global education policy reform and technology-enhanced, anti-oppressive pedagogy. Hannah Tavares is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her work explores the personal, relational, and diasporic, and the construction of geographical identity. Her practice draws from multiple cultural and disciplinary perspectives to examine the ambivalence and complexity of territorial and cultural boundaries. At the center of her work is the body, understood as a site of power and action.

1. Series and Volume Introduction: Flashpoint Epistemology: Differences-in-the-meeting Part 1: Religion-as-Morality Meets Education-as-Other Ways: Life/Death, Eco-Emptying, and Plasticity 2. Sublime Eco Dharma in the Classroom: Derrida, Marchesini, and the Teachings of the Mahāmudrā 3. Problematizing Ecological Citizenship and Schooling as National, Economic, Religious, and Student-Centered: Laudato Si (Praise Be to You) and New Flashpoints in the Reshaping of Educational Purposes 4. Can’t You Tell By the Waves? Vision and Aroma in Tibetan Buddhist Epistemologies of Death 5. Plastic Pedagogy: Rabindranath Tagore Revisited Part 2: Destabilizing Arts: From the Visible/Invisible to Science Fiction/Fiction Science 6. Machinic Understandings of Images: Displacing Ideas of the (In)visible 7. Fiction Science: Educational Substance as a Technology of the Anthropocene 8. Intersectional Assemblages in Afronauts: Rethinking Racialized "Difference" through Utu Dialogues 9. Feeling Pedagogy’s Affective and Material Flashpoints in the Science Fiction Animation “Zima Blue”