Excited to share our new OA article on how neoliberal policies are reshaping English teaching across the Asia Pacific. As New Zealand intensifies this shift, we examine the effects on curricula and educators—and where autonomy persists. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Surely one could argue that given the inevitable surveillance hellscape future (for everyone), enculturating students early to said future is actually doing them a favor (i.e. numbing them to the effects).
New OA pub.
What if there were ways of thinking and working with digital games in schools that moved beyond the rhetoric of boosters and alarmists?
This article argues for a digital games/learning relationship characterised by critical imagined digital futures.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Just me trying to figure out whether ideas from the postdigital turn might be useful for helping English education escape the clutches of neoliberalism. Keen to hear what people think. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This has played out with shocking consequences in academic publishing. Academics can pump out more papers than ever, and quicker. Only to free up time to peer-review the endless stream of AI-papers that are being pumped out.
I would pay serious money for this.
You forgot videogames.
Rego link in the comments.
HOUSE WITH RED DOOR
2025
Acrylic paint on white card.
Last chance to join our Karen Barad "Meeting the Universe Halfway" reading group. See attached flyer for info. Meeting times will be Australian Eastern Standard Time friendly.
Digital Tool
RABBIT
2025.
Acrylic paint and goggle eyes on paper plate with card.
STRAWBERRY ICECREAM
Coloured paper, glitter on card.
2025
DINOSAUR
2025
Clay on card.
HOUSE
Coloured card, glue. 2025
I've also set up a new feed. You can find it on MySpace with highlights through IRC.
Fragmentation or evolution?
Senior researchers, what are you doing tomorrow?
Helping DECRA applicants navigate their referee reports, that's what you're doing tomorrow.
Book in some quality time with them now. Normally reports drop around ~11am AEST.
Be honest - you were on the loo when you typed this?
Like annual performance reviews and grant submissions.
The measure to determine if you've made it in academia. Congrats.
WORM
Paper mache on card, 2025
TACO
Coloured cloth on cardboard. 2025
We almost never let kids choose their own texts in school English. We'd much rather give them shit they'd hate and then complain when they disengage.
I'll be presenting also at *checks notes* 1:30-3:30am tomorrow. FML.
Friday, May 30th, 2025 Clayton Childress (UBC). How Shared is Common Culture? A View from the Middle School Library Simone Murray (Monash), Michelle J. Smith (Monash) and Alex Bacalja (U.Melb), Where Is the Digital in High-school English? Alexander Manshel (McGill), CliffsNotes, SparkNotes, and Shmoop: A New History of Literary Criticism Ben Libman (Stanford), Grove Press and the Extramural Teach-In
On Friday, May 30th...Clayton Childress, Simone Murray, Michelle Smith, @alexbacalja.bsky.social, @benlibman.bsky.social, and me on "The Curricular and the Extra-Curricular"...
What does it mean for an English curriculum to be predigital, digital or postdigital? This new analysis of the New Zealand's latest draft national English curriculum suggests are have a long way to go to adequately prepare young people for a postdigital age. Link to the article in the comments.
