Advanced Pedagogical Theory…
The Advanced Pedagogical Theory (APT) research subtheme provides a forum for researchers interested in pedagogy, understood as the theorisation of the meaning, purpose and practice of education throughout the life course. Pedagogy is here not limited to educational institutions but spans the life-long process of human (self)formation that takes diverse cultural forms and is shaped by specific political and social conditions. Drawing on a wide range of philosophical, theoretical and historical traditions, APT researchers explore the theory of education, and its associated pedagogical processes, in and through a variety of diverse cultural phenomena: from encounters with art and artefacts in literature, film, theatre and (popular) culture; to religious-spiritual practices (the Japanese tea ceremony; monastic practice) and educational policy-making in the neoliberal age.