Transforming Education

Leon Benade has research interests in teachers' work, school policy, ethics, philosophy in schools, critical pedagogy, and the New Zealand Curriculum. Leon's current research work focuses on how '21st century learning' impacts the work of teachers and school leaders, particularly in relation to the establishment of Flexible and Innovative Learning Environments and digital pedagogies. Related areas of interest include the question of teachers' critical reflective practice and the evolving role and nature of the concept of 'knowledge' in the 21st century curriculum. Leon is currently on the Executive Committee of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (PESA). He serves on the editorial board of the New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, is co-editor of the New Zealand Journal of Teachers' Work and associate editor of Open Review of Educational Research. Leon Benade is author of From Technicians to Teachers (Continuum) and Being a Teacher in the 21stst Century (Springer).  Mark Jackson's principal research interests are in a broad platform of philosophical approaches to ethics in design cultures and architecture. He has published on the work of Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Walter Benjamin, with respect to design cultures, design theory and approaches to design research, with a particular emphasis on post-humanist engagements with ethics. He has also published on the literary philosophy of Maurice Blanchot, and feminist writings associated with the works of Hélène Cixous and Luce Irigaray. He has also produced film and digital video works for exhibition, and has published in the field of film and philosophy.