UW–Madison’s Thomas Popkewitz recently signed a contract on a new book series with Routledge that explores the possibilities, paradoxes, and boundaries of the sciences that shape education.
The series is titled, “Routledge Studies in Histories and Cultural Sociology of the Education Sciences.”
Popkewitz, an internationally recognized scholar with the School of Education’s No. 1-ranked Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is co-editing the series with Elin Sundström Sjödin of Mälardalen University in Sweden.
“The series is unique in its concern with studies of the education sciences that asks how science ‘acts’ — both agentively and performatively,” Popkewitz says of the upcoming book series. “It redirects questions away from measuring learning and well-being to ask how the cognitive frameworks and affect structures of research produce the very phenomena for ‘seeing’ children, differences, and teaching that drive school reform, learning, teaching, curriculum design, and efforts to address social injustices.”
Popkewitz, whose work centers on the cultural politics of education knowledge and its comparative reason, adds: “Bringing together international scholarship from studies of science with those of education, the series combines historical and cultural-sociological perspectives to engage with ongoing debates about rationality, science, and education.”
Popkewitz holds six honorary doctorates and was elected as a fellow to the American Educational Research Association. This is his second series with Routledge, with the previous one titled, “Routledge Cultural Studies in Knowledge, Curriculum, and Education.”
Those interested in becoming a part of this new project can submit inquiries to Popkewitz at: thomas.popkewitz@wisc.edu