My time as Wiepking Distinguished Visiting Professor at Miami University in Ohio has ended Leonie, Josephine and I are getting ready to visit England for the first time in almost 30 years from mid-June until September. We will be returning to the United States in September and making our way slowly back to California before returning to New Zealand, possibly in November. I am available for speaking engagements during all of that time. For specific availability email me through this site. Otherwise - enjoy and make use of the website, and don't forget to recommend it to your friends and colleagues.
Remember, knowledge isn't power: it's responsibility exercised through relationship-building.
There are more than 100 (free) downloadable and fully illustrated PDFs on all of these topics and more from the Primer level, up to PhD. The PDFs are direct and easy to understand. There are also sets of extensive bibliographies and glossaries and related web links in all of these areas. For access to some you will need to register, but that is easy and quick (top right), and they are
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There are four main sections:
Critical Theory
Critical Theory: An introduction to the field of Critical Theorising, with bibliographies, glossary, main theorists and personal writings. Outlines of some of the areas in which Critical Theorising has been influential.
Critical Education Theory and Practice
Critical Education Theory: An introduction to Critical Education Theory, with its genaeology, subfields, a glossary, main theorists, bibliographies and personal writings and academic analyses
Critical Education Practice: Examples of critical practice taken mostly from the field of Community Engagement in Design Education, applyinng Critical Theorising and Critical Practice to a wide range of fields (Education, Health, Community Development etc.)
Critical Design Theory and Practice
Critical Design Theories: An overview of the highly contested space of Design and Design Education theorising, including critical historical studies, Postmodernism, Theories of Resistance, and the role and significance of Social Architecture and Community Design. Personal and guest papers all downloadable.
Critical Design Practice : A brief chronology of my own persional work and development in design practice, with some illustrated examples of work in the area of Community Engagement.
Community Engagement and Strategic Planning
Programme Development: A brief overview of my work in Academic Programme Development while working for five years at Te Whare Wananga o Awanuiarangi. The developed programmes (based upon critical theorising and practice) are described, along with a brief philosophy of programme development for indigenous peoples.
Space Programming: A brief overview of the importance of and relationship between critical education practice and good space planning.
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