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Professor Marek Tesar

Marek

Director of the Centre for Global Childhoods, Head of School and Associate Dean International, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Email: m.tesar@auckland.ac.nz

Profile

Professor Marek Tesar is the Director of the Centre for Global Childhoods, Head of School and Associate Dean International at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is Editor-in-Chief of Policy Futures in Education (SAGE), Deputy Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory (T&F), and is engaged in editorial capacities with a number of international and New Zealand journals. He is co-editor of 3 book series (Springer, Routledge). His research is focused on philosophical methods, childhood studies and early childhood education. His latest research focuses on the construction of childhoods, and methodological and philosophical thinking around ontologies and the ethics of researching these notions. He has published extensively in these areas.

Research

Publications

Malone, K., Tesar, M., Arndt, S. (2020). Theorising Posthuman Childhood Studies. Singapore: Springer.

Expertise

Early childhood education, childhood studies, philosophy of education, theoretical and philosophical studies of education, transdisciplinary research
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