The Methodology and Philosophy of Collective Writing: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume X

352 Pages·2021·7.589 MB·English

by  Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley, Marek Tesar, Liz Jackson, Petar Jandrić, Sonja Arndt and Sean Sturm

The Methodology and Philosophy of
Collective Writing
This multi-authored collection covers the methodology and philosophy of
collective writing. It is based on a series of articles written by the authors
in Educational Philosophy and Theory, Open Review of Educational Research
and Knowledge Cultures to explore the concept of collective writing. This
tenth volume in the Editor’s Choice series provides insights into the phi-
losophy of academic writing and peer review, peer production, collective
intelligence, knowledge socialism, openness, open science and intellectual
commons. This collection represents the development of the philosophy,
methodology and philosophy of collective writing developed in the last few
years by members of the Editors’ Collective (EC), who also edit, review and
contribute to E ducational Philosophy and Theory (EPAT), as well as to PESA
Agora, edited by Tina Besley, and Access, edited by Nina Hood, two PESA
‘journals’ recently developed by EC members. This book develops the phi-
losophy, methodology and pedagogy of collective writing as a new mode of
academic writing as an alternative to the normal academic article. The phi-
losophy of collective writing draws on a new mode of academic publishing
that emphasises the metaphysics of peer production and open review along
with the main characteristics of openness, collaboration, co-creation and co-
social innovation, peer review and collegiality that have become a praxis for
the self-reflection emphasising the subjectivity of writing, sometimes called
self-writing. This collection, under the EPAT series Editor’s Choice, draws
on a group of members of the Editors’ Collective, who constitute a network
of editors, reviewers and authors who established the organisation to fur-
ther the aims of innovation in academic writing and publishing. It provides
discussion and examples of the philosophy, methodology and pedagogy of
collective writing. Split into three sections, Introduction, Openness and Pro-
jects, this volume offers an introduction to the philosophy and methodology
of collective writing. It will be of interest to scholars in philosophy of educa-
tion and those interested in the process of collective writing.
Michael A. Peters is Distinguished Professor of Education at Beijing Nor-
mal University and Emeritus Professor at the University of Illinois. He is
the Executive Editor of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory.
His interests are in education, philosophy and social policy, and he is the
author of over 100 books, including The Chinese Dream: Educating the
Future (2019), Wittgenstein: Anti-f oundationalism, Technoscience and Phi-
losophy of Education (2020) and Wittgenstein, Education and the Problem of
Rationality (2021).
Tina Besley is Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Education at Beijing
Normal University. She is Founding President of the Association for Visual
Pedagogies (AVP) and Immediate Past President of the Philosophy of Edu-
cation Society of Australasia (PESA). She has published over 12 books and
many articles and is Deputy Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory and
the Video Journal of Education and Pedagogy, and Associate Editor for the
Beijing International Review of Education. She works closely with Professor
Michael A. Peters and with a wide international network of scholars.
Marek Tesar is Associate Professor and Associate Dean International at the
University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is Editor- in- Chief of Policy Futures
in Education and Deputy Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory and
Access: Contemporary Issues in Education. His research is focused on philo-
sophical methods, childhood studies and early childhood education, with
expertise in the philosophy of education and childhood. His latest research
is concerned with the construction of childhoods, and methodological and
philosophical thinking around ontologies and the ethics of researching these
notions.
Liz Jackson is Professor of Education at the Education University of Hong
Kong. She is also President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Aus-
tralasia and the former Director of the Comparative Education Research
Centre at the University of Hong Kong. Her interests are in philosophy of
education, moral philosophy and global studies. She is the author of Muslims
and Islam in US Education: Reconsidering Multiculturalism (2014), Ques-
tioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (2019) and Beyond Virtue:
The Politics of Educating Emotions (2020).
Petar Jandrić (PhD) is Professor at the Zagreb University of Applied
Sciences, Croatia, and Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhamp-
ton, UK. His research interests are situated at the post-d isciplinary inter-
sections between technologies, pedagogies and the society, and research
methodologies of his choice are inter-, trans- and anti- disciplinarity. He is
Editor- in- Chief of Postdigital Science and Education journal https://www.
springer.com/journal/42438 and book series https://www.springer.com/
series/16439. His personal website is at http://petarjandric.com/.
Sonja Arndt is a lecturer in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at
the University of Melbourne. Her research and scholarship intersect studies
of childhood, early years education and philosophy of/in education. Sonja is
the Vice President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
(PESA), Deputy Editor of Policy Futures in Education, Associate Editor of
Educational Philosophy and Theory and co-e ditor of the book series Children:
Global Posthumanist Perstpectives and Materialist Theories.
Sean Sturm leads the Higher Education Programme at the School of Crit-
ical Studies in Education at the University of Auckland. He is the Editor of
Knowledge Cultures, Deputy Editor of PESA Agora and the Book Reviews
Editor of Educational Philosophy and Theory. His research explores the nexus
of critical university studies, settler studies and writing studies.
Educational Philosophy and Theory: Editor’s Choice
Series editor: Michael A. Peters, Beijing Normal University, China
The EPAT Editor’s Choice series comprises innovative and influential arti-
cles drawn from the Educational Philosophy and Theory journal archives,
spanning 46 volumes, from 1969. Each volume represents a selection of
important articles that respond to and focus on a particular theme, cele-
brating and emphasizing the heritage and history of the work, as well as the
cutting-edge contemporary contributions available. The series will create a
rich vertical collection across five decades of seminal scholarship, contextu-
alizing and elevating specific themes, scholars and their work. The EPAT
Editor, Michael A. Peters, introduces each volume, the theme and the work
selected within that volume.
Titles in the series include:
The Chinese Dream: Educating the Future
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Chinese Educational Philosophy
Reader Volume VII
Michael A. Peters
Wittgenstein, Anti-foundationalism, Technoscience and Philosophy of
Education
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume VIII
Michael A. Peters
The Far Right, Education and Violence
An Educational Philosophy Reader Volume IX
Michael A. Peters and Tina Besley
The Methodology and Philosophy of Collective Writing
An Educational Philosophy and Theory Reader Volume X
Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley, Marek Tesar, Liz Jackson, Petar Jandric, Sonja
Arndt and Sean Sturm
For more information about the series, please visit www.routledge.com/
Educational-Philosophy-and-Theory-Editors-Choice/book-series/EPAT
The Methodology and
Philosophy of Collective
Writing
An Educational Philosophy and Theory
Reader Volume X
Edited by Michael A. Peters, Tina
Besley, Marek Tesar, Liz Jackson, Petar
Jandri , Sonja Arndt and Sean Sturm
ć
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Contents
Previously published chapters x
List of contributors xii
PART 1
Introduction 1
1. Towards a philosophy of academic publishing 3
MICHAEL A. PETERS, PETAR JANDRIĆ, RUTH IRWIN, KIRSTEN LOCKE,
NESTA DEVINE, RICHARD HERAUD, ANDREW GIBBONS, TINA BESLEY,
JAYNE WHITE, DANIELLA FORSTER, LIZ JACKSON, ELIZABETH
GRIERSON, CARL MIKA, GEORGINA STEWART, MAREK TESAR, SUSANNE
BRIGHOUSE, SONJA ARNDT, GEORGE LĂZĂROIU, RAMONA MIHĂILĂ,
CATHERINE LEGG AND LEON BENADE
2. Experimenting with academic subjectivity:
collective writing, peer production and
collective intelligence 38
MICHAEL A. PETERS, TINA BESLEY AND SONJA ARNDT
3. Collective writing: an inquiry into praxis 55
PETAR JANDRIĆ, NESTA DEVINE, LIZ JACKSON, MICHAEL A. PETERS,
GEORGE LĂZĂROIU, RAMONA MIHĂILĂ, KIRSTEN LOCKE,
RICHARD HERAUD, ANDREW GIBBONS, ELIZABETH GRIERSON,
DANIELLA J. FORSTER, E. JAYNE WHITE, GEORGINA STEWART,
MAREK TESAR, SONJA ARNDT, SUSANNE BRIGHOUSE AND LEON BENADE
4. Knowledge socialism: the rise of peer production –
collegiality, collaboration, and collective intelligence 78
MICHAEL A. PETERS
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PART 2
Openness 91
5. Inaugural editorial: openness and the intellectual commons 93
MICHAEL A. PETERS
6. Radical openness: creative institutions, creative
labor and the logic of public organizations in
cognitive capitalism 100
MICHAEL A. PETERS
7. Citizen science and ecological democracy in the
global science regime: the need for openness and
participation 124
MICHAEL PETERS AND TINA BESLEY
8. Citizen science and post- normal science in a
post- truth era: democratising knowledge; socialising
responsibility 132
MICHAEL A. PETERS AND TINA BESLEY
9. Open science, philosophy and peer review 148
MICHAEL A. PETERS
10. Is peer review in academic publishing still working? 154
LIZ JACKSON, MICHAEL A. PETERS, LEON BENADE, NESTA DEVINE,
SONJA ARNDT, DANIELLA FORSTER, ANDREW GIBBONS, ELIZABETH
GRIERSON, PETAR JANDRIĆ, GEORGE LĂZĂROIU, KIRSTEN LOCKE,
RAMONA MIHĂILĂ, GEORGINA STEWART, MAREK TESAR, PETER
ROBERTS AND JĀNIS (JOHN) OZOLIŅŠ
PART 3
Projects 173
11. After postmodernism in educational theory?
a collective writing experiment and thought survey 175
MICHAEL A. PETERS, MAREK TESAR AND LIZ JACKSON
Contents ix
12. Between the blabbering noise of individuals or the
silent dialogue of many: a collective response to ‘Postdigital
Science and Education’ (Jandrić et al. 2018) 188
SONJA ARNDT, GORDON ASHER, JEREMY KNOX, DEREK R. FORD,
SARAH HAYES, GEORGE LĂZĂROIU, LIZ JACKSON, JULIA MAÑERO
CONTRERAS, RACHEL BUCHANAN, LAURA D’OLIMPIO, MARK SMITH,
JUHA SUORANTA, OLLI PYYHTINEN, THOMAS RYBERG, JACOB
DAVIDSEN, ANNE STEKETEE, RAMONA MIHĂILĂ, GEORGINA STEWART,
MARK DAWSON, CHRISTINE SINCLAIR AND MICHAEL A. PETERS
13. Ten theses on the shift from (static) text to
(moving) image 220
MICHAEL A. PETERS, E. JAYNE WHITE, ELIZABETH GRIERSON,
GEORGINA STEWART, NESTA DEVINE, JANITA CRAW, ANDREW GIBBONS,
PETAR JANDRIĆ, RENE NOVAK, RICHARD HERAUD AND KIRSTEN LOCKE
14. Education in and for the Belt and Road Initiative: 
the pedagogy of collective writing 260
MICHAEL A. PETERS, OGUNNIRAN MOSES OLADELE, BENJAMIN
GREEN, ARTEM SAMILO, HANFEI LV, LAIMECHE AMINA, YAQIAN WANG,
MOU CHUNXIAO, JASMIN OMARY CHUNGA, XU RULIN, TATIANA
IANINA, STEPHANIE HOLLINGS, MAGDOLINE FARID BARSOUM
YOUSEF, PETAR JANDRIĆ, SEAN STURM, JIAN LI, ERYONG XUE, LIZ
JACKSON AND MAREK TESAR
15. Video ethics in educational research involving children:
literature review and critical discussion 292
MICHAEL A. PETERS, E. JAYNE WHITE, TINA BESLEY, KIRSTEN LOCKE,
BRIDGETTE REDDER, RENE NOVAK, ANDREW GIBBONS, JOHN O’NEILL,
MAREK TESAR AND SEAN STURM
Endnote: exploring the philosophy of collective writing 314
MICHAEL A. PETERS, MAREK TESAR, LIZ JACKSON, TINA BESLEY,
PETAR JANDRIĆ, SONJA ARNDT AND SEAN STURM
Index 325