Transforming Practices

Stephen Kemmis is Professor Emeritus of Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, and of Federation University, Victoria, Australia. He researches and writes about education, practice theory, especially the theory of practice architectures, and critical participatory action research. Stephen has published widely on education, educational research, case study methods in education, educational evaluation, educational reform, and the theory of practice architectures as a theory for understanding and transforming educational and social practices.

• Introduction.- Changing the world: The dynamics of transformation.- ErinEarth Garden: An example of Education for Sustainability.- The theory of practice architectures: Practices.- How Practice architectures Hold practices in their course.- Practices as species in communities and ecologies.- Ecologies of practices: Co-production and interdependence.- Philosophical-empirical enquiry, heuristics for analysis.- Critical analysis and transformation.- A new world coming.- What we know now.