Below are links to the presentations I made at the 2024 AARE conference:
Lightning Talk: Social ecology and education
Individual Paper Presentation: Education and full employment: Enabling active citizenship?
Round Table Discussion: A social ecological research program in education
This piece was one I was preparing for The Conversation but was eventually rejected by the editor as not being fit for purpose. While this was disappointing to me, I figured I might as well post it here rather than letting it rot on my hard drive. What follows was the latest edit:
The word “Capitalocene” was coined in 2009 by Swedish professor of human ecology Andreas Malm, and is slowly becoming more widely used.
The word comes from ‘Capital’, as in capitalism, and ‘-ocene’, which refers to a measure of geological time, […]
I originally wrote this article in October 2020 – better to publish it here now than have it sit on my hard drive forever!
So Australia has officially entered its first recession in 29 years. Heads are hanging in parliament and a chorus of concern is rising. But the most important question is not being asked: what is the purpose of it all?
Since antiquity some philosophers and religious leaders, in both the East and West, have held that the final purpose of a human life is happiness. Buddha based his teaching on […]
This article was originally published in January 2020 in the Echo here.
Anyone who has never studied economics would be excused for the common-sense belief that the economy cannot grow forever, but those who have been indoctrinated with an economics education know otherwise. The standard model of economic growth that they learn is independent of resources, so, they believe, there is no limit to an economy’s size. Sound strange? The key point to toppling this dogma is knowing that the economy is a real thing, requiring real resources to increase the […]