Lots on your plate, but still curious how we can integrate photography/visual method into field based learning pedagogy? 📸
I've got it covered - here's a video explainer and an infographic to help 🤩

if you're into #visualpedagogies , visual methods, #FieldBasedLearning, love to hear from u!

The IGU/UGI's Steering Committee of the Commission on Research Methods is please to invite you to the first in a series of webinars on AI+ Research Methods in Geography.

2 more weeks to register!

Prof Bing Zhou from University of Tennessee takes the lead, presenting 👇🏽

📕 NOW AVAILABLE: Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education

Edited by: Ravinder K. Sidhu, Cheng Y.and @johannawaters.bsky.social

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#sociology #education #globalsociology

Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education ‘This encyclopedic volume reimagines the sociology of education through connected sociologies and a methodologically denationalized approach. By addressing myriad issues—from mobility and borders to decolonization and race—and advocating for decolonial, relational, and inclusive pedagogies, it fosters global solidarity and challenges inequalities for a more just, interconnected future.’ – Riyad A. Shahjahan, Michigan State University, USA

Recently published #book by TASA member Ravinder K. Sidhu et al.

Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education

Handbook on Geographies of Education ‘Education happens in spaces and places, and across scales. This Handbook on Geographies of Education offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which policy, practice, and experience not ...

Professors Peter Kraftl and @profslh.bsky.social have co-edited the new Handbook on Geographies of Education (with Yi’En Cheng and Silvie R. Kučerová) @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

"This first of its kind volume is at once field-defining and boundary-pushing."

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This paper is informed by the global experience course GEx Mekong Delta (2024 and 2025) that I teach at #NUSCollege

#GExMekongDelta #GeographyEducation #VisualMethods #HigherEd #FieldBaseLearning #Photography #VisualPedagogies

3. Photography serves as a meta-pedagogical tool that fosters critical reflexivity, enabling students to engage in comparative thinking between "home" and "host" contexts while understanding that research competence is built through iterative practice.

2. Photography acts as an enabler of affective-cognitive transformation, shifting student focus from technical image extraction to cultivating genuine human connections and challenging their own cultural assumptions.

Based on 81 reflection essays written by 27 students across 2 cohorts, I argue:

1. Photography functions as a negotiated relational practice where students learn to navigate complex ethical boundaries and balance the impulse to document with a deep respect for their subjects.

This paper discusses how photography serves as a powerful tool to scaffold field experiences into a recursive learning process, where ethical "messiness" and emotional responses arising from phototaking prompt critical reflections on positionality and privilege.

Undergraduate visual learning: how students navigate photography as a tool for overseas field-based learning This article examines how undergraduate students negotiate the use of photography as a pedagogical tool during an overseas field-based learning course in the Mekong Delta. While existing scholarshi...

Got locked out of my social for a couple months. Back here to spread word about this new piece of research published in #JGHE
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We know much about potential of visual methods & field based learning. But how do we transform these into pedagogy?
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After few rounds of discussion, brainstorming & testing, they pivoted & found an alternative way to execute their concept. The result: a site specific restaging of the community library space + storytelling of children's conflicted encounters with education in rural Vietnam. 👏🏽

Super proud of this team who pushed through till the very end & delivered on their Creative Practice, marking the culmination of their 2- year impact experience project.🎉
Just a few days ago bad news came abt damaged materials while being shipped, huge setback on their plan.

Yet, for these pathways to impact & change to be realised, there must be some stable conditions to allow for & to facilitate that process.
So, I say to my students, it's more important to focus on how to stabilise critical conditions for change to happen!
#theoryofchange

Students often focus only on problem framing and solutioning, but give little attention to the process of getting from 1 pt to the other. Designing solutions becomes simply an exercise in identifying feasible pathways to effect change.

My whiteboard writing is as messy as it gets. But that's nth compared to the messiness of designing & implementing impact projects that simultaneously serve student learning goals & community needs.

Applied Mobilities Migration infrastructures and (Im)mobile lives: interruptions, failures, and repairs. Volume 9, Issue 4 of Applied Mobilities

Our SI on 🧳Migration infrastructures & (Im)mobile lives: interruptions, failures & repairs 🔨 is officially Vol 9 Issue 4 of Applied Mobilities.
💡 Articles all qn the durability/stability of migration infrastructures & focus on moments of breakdown/transformation.
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The internationalisation of education and ‘Belt and Road’ student mobilities in Southeast Asia Published in Asian Population Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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3️⃣ The unique drivers behind varying patterns of student mobility to different Southeast Asian destinations, including economic initiatives, geopolitical dynamics, cultural affinities, and institutional collaborations.

2️⃣ The heightening educational credentialism in China serves as a significant driver of Chinese student mobilities to Southeast Asia, reflecting the increasing interconnectedness of the regional education market.

We underline 3 key themes:

1️⃣ The emergence of SEA as an international node in the diversifying pathways of Chinese student mobilities is far from being a homogenous space; it instead replicates the hierarchical nature seen current state of international education.

Inside, we consider the internationalisation dynamics in both China & Southeast Asia, & note the diversifying pathways reflecting not only HE's strategic adjustment in response to both domestic pressures & global opportunities, but also broader shift in educational & aspirations in Asian youth.

The internationalisation of education and ‘Belt and Road’ student mobilities in Southeast Asia Published in Asian Population Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)

The introduction to our special section on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 ‘𝗕𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱’ 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 is now online! 🔆

Read on to find out more, and access free eprints!

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Do you research topics at the nexus of education, mobility & migration, and has something important to say about 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🌈

✨ Zachary Howlett, Kris Lee Hyesoo & myself are organising workshop on 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 at NUS Asia Research Institute, 24-25 April 2025.

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Even as we briefly shared our interview stories at the dinner table, we're beginning to see the many faces of these extended lives of international students beyond education.

So interesting to see how international education intersects with marriage and family, and where pathways to social mobility crisscross each other in sometimes romantic and irrational but also strategic and instrumental ways.