It is a key aim of members of the Educational Philosophy Research Hub to raise and investigate questions that look beneath accepted norms of practice and theory.
All research and teaching undertakings engage, explicitly or implicitly, with philosophical issues. This occurs through the need to comprehend theory and to theory-build.
Some theories can appear relatively simple, but their underlying assumptions will reach into significant philosophical questions that often go unnoticed.
This is not philosophy by itself, but philosophy as applied in education research to understand education issues.
Expertise
In order to achieve this aim, the Educational Philosophy Research Hub operates by bringing together experts in collegial ways to:
Researchers
Enable generation of high quality research project submissions that will attract interest and funding. This will be achieved via seminars and other forms of collegiality designed to bring researchers together to create shared goals.
Graduate Researchers
Enable identification of the needs of graduate researchers in relation to theory development, and instigation of means for addressing such needs via collegial undertakings such as seminars.
Teachers and Educators
Enable development of and ongoing support for Faculty of Education subjects that introduce theoretical concerns in education and showcase how these concerns may be translated into practice innovations that have impact in educational situations in and beyond the university.
Other Stakeholders
Enable contributions from education policy makers, administrators, parents, students, and others that support questioning, and responding to questioning, intended to impact current and future developments in education.
Events
The Research Hub organises four distinct event types to foster academic discourse and collaboration. Each series is promoted within the Research Hub community, inviting participation and contributions from members.
- The Research Work-in-Progress Discussions Series encourages researchers, including graduate researchers, to present short written outlines of their ongoing projects, such as thesis sections or draft papers, for discussion among peers.
- The Online Publication Discussions Series delves into published pieces from various online platforms, including the University's Pursuit publication and The Conversation, facilitating open discourse on their content.
- The Philosophical Briefs Series focuses on exploring key concepts within educational philosophy, with authors presenting 2000-word pieces that engage with philosophical frameworks.
The Hub will also offer Special Events as these are proposed, considered and organised. If you have a suggestion for a special event, please contact one or all of John Quay, Sonja Arndt and Maurizio Toscano.
Research hub leaders
If you would like to be a contributing research hub member, please email one of our hub leaders
