Education in an Era of Schooling

This book is a Festschrift for Emeritus Professor Stephen Kemmis, who has a long and eminent career as an educational academic spanning over 40 years and has been influential across all continents of the world. The book examines critical perspectives on educational practice and participatory nature action research, including practitioner research particularly as undertaken by teachers in schools. Including vignettes from Kemmis' colleagues and mentors, it draws on contributions from a range of academics whose scholarship has been inspired by his work. The papers stem from a range of countries, including Australia, Canada, Finland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, United States of America, and Trinidad and Tobago - a testimony to the enduring and global legacy of Kemmis' scholarship. The contributing authors include leading scholars, indigenous elders from Australia, and community leaders concerned with environmental sustainability. The concluding focus of this book turns towards practice theory. Kemmis' later work led to the development of the theory of practice architectures and gave rise to the development of the theory of ecologies of practices in education, resulting in the leading text "Changing practices, changing education" (Kemmis, Wilkinson, Edwards-Groves, Hardy, Grootenboer & Bristol, 2014, Springer). This theory is now being applied across a wide range of international contexts, sites and disciplines including early childhood, school education, university education, community environment, and indigenous cultural sustainability and health.