Professor Marek Tesar

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 two leading journals: Policy Futures in Education (SAGE) and 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

• Tesar, M., & Pangastuti, Y. (2024). From colonial legacies to inclusive futures: Transforming and reconceptualising early childhood education in Indonesia. Global Studies of Childhood, https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106241268149
• Tesar, M., Guerrero, M. R., Anttila, E., Newberry, J., Hellman, A., Wall, J., . . . Arndt, S. (2021). Infantographies. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2009341
• Malone, K., Tesar, M., Arndt, S. (2020). Theorising Posthuman Childhood Studies. Singapore: Springer.
• Tesar, M., & Arndt, S. (2016). Vibrancy of Childhood Things: Power, Philosophy, and Political Ecology of Matter. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, 16(2), 193-200. https://doi.org/10.1177/1532708616636144
• Tesar, M. (2016). Timing childhoods: An alternative reading of children’s development through philosophy of time, temporality, place and space. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 17(4), 399-408. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949116677924

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