Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1

<p>The 21st century is steeped in claims to interconnection technological innovation and new affective intensities amid challenges to the primacy and centrality of the human. Flashpoint epistemology attends to the lived difficulties that arise in teaching policymaking curriculum and research among continuous practices of differentiation and for which there is no pre-existing template for judgment resolution or action.</p><p><i>Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1</i> examines contemporary collisions and reworkings of cultural-political issues in education through arts and humanities-based approaches. How and whether lines are (re)drawn in educational practice – and via who-what – between justice morality religion ethics subjectivities intersectionality the sublime and the senses are a particular focus. The volume offers innovative relational approaches and new narrativization strategies examining the aporia experienced when operating in educational domains of inevitable recurring difficult fortuitous and/or unforeseen flashpoints. </p><p>The chapters will engage researchers seeking new approaches to education’s complexities nested discourses and ever-moving horizons of enactment. It will also benefit post/graduate students and teachers whose work intersects with sociological philosophical and cultural studies and who are curious about claims to interconnection the ethical quandaries embedded in practice and the affordances and limits of technological innovation.</p>