Abstract
This presentation for the Centre for Global Development invites participants to engage in a dialogue about journeying through critical realism. It is widely recognised that critical realism can be bewildering and even overwhelming for newcomers, particularly those unfamiliar with its language and without a grounding in philosophy.
This seminar aims to encourage participating researchers and research students to share their stories of methodological encounters with critical realism. It prompts reflection on questions such as: What draws us to critical realism? What keeps us engaged with it? How can we help others? These are the central questions this seminar seeks to explore.
The seminar will begin with a brief overview of the journey behind the book Working with Critical Realism: Stories of Methodological Encounters - including the personal experiences of the editors and the goals they hoped to achieve through this unique collection of researchers’ stories about their engagements with critical realism.
Speaker
Alpesh Maisuria is Professor of Education Policy in Critical Education, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Through underlabouring Marxism with Critical Realist philosophy of science, his work examines the ideological and political drivers of policy decisions to critique education in (re)producing forms of inequality. Alpesh is the Joint Deputy Editor of Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies (JCEPS) and is an organiser of the International Conferences on Critical Education (ICCE). Alpesh has an extensive publications record and in 2022 he edited the Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education - the first book of its kind. His co-edited book - Working with Critical Realism (2023) with Grant Banfield was nominated for the Cheryl Frank Memorial prize. Alpesh is also a Academic Parliamentary Fellow in the House of Commons, where he is a specialist in schools' policy. In this role he provides research and information to MPs, parliamentary staff, and the Education Select Committee to effectively scrutinise the executive.
- Speaker
- Professor Alpesh Maisuria
- Hosted by
- Centre for Global Development
- Venue
- Zoom
- Contact
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cgd@abdn.ac.uk