Educational attunement in post-secondary education
Rowena Azada-Palacios reimagines relationality between teachers and students in post-secondary education.
Educational attunement in post-secondary education
27 May 2026, 17:30 – 19:15
This presentation builds on a co-authored chapter from the forthcoming collection Teaching Ethically in the Global South, edited by Nuraan Davids and Samuel Mendonça, in order to reimagine relationality between teachers and students in post-secondary education.
Rowena proposes a concept of educational attunement that draws on notions of subjectivity and relationality found in Philippine philosophy, and brings these ideas into dialogue with ideas from bell hooks and Emmanuel Levinas to consider its ethical limitations.
PESGB seminar series
This event is part of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) seminar series. PESGB is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with the Centre for Philosophy of Education. These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern.
All are welcome to attend.
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Rowena Azada-Palacios
Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Edinburgh; Ateneo De Manila University
Her monograph Postcolonial Education and National Identity: An Arendtian Re-imagination (2024, Bloomsbury Academic), based on her PhD completed at UCL, won the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia’s 2025 Book Award.
Rowena’s work brings Continental philosophy and critical political thought to bear on questions related to education.
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