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Education for Eudaimonia

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Education for Eudaimonia

Posted on 30 September 2025 by Dr Kevin Smith

Educating for eudaimonia reorients schooling to the good life: virtue, meaning, connection, and ecological care. Read about how aiming for eudaimonia can transform pedagogy.

Education, Personal Reflection

Transforming the BSc Education Student Experience at Cardiff University

Posted on 21 July 2025 by Dr Kevin Smith

How do you transform the student experience? This post reflects on the collective effort behind Cardiff’s BSc Education programme—how collaboration, care, and curricular coherence reshaped teaching, learning, and community from the inside out.

Education, Educational Research

Ambulare: Walking, Reflection, and the Renewal of Curriculum

Posted on 3 April 2025 by Dr Kevin Smith

What happens when reflection moves out of the mind and into the body? In this post, I share how Ambulare—a walking-based reimagining of Currere—has grown into an international collaboration helping educators reflect, reconnect and renew their curriculum work.

Education, Educational Research

I, Me, and Curriculum: Reflecting on Self and Educational Reform in Wales

Posted on 11 April 2024 by Dr Kevin Smith

What does curriculum mean to me? Drawing on Mead’s theory of self and Pinar’s reconceptualist method of Currere, this post explores how Welsh educators can reclaim their professional voice and rethink curriculum as a living, reflective practice.

 

Currere Cymru: The Future of Educational Research in Wales

Posted on 27 February 2024 by Dr Kevin Smith

How can teachers in Wales reimagine curriculum as something lived, felt and continually made? In this post, I introduce Currere Cymru—a new research collaboration exploring how curriculum theorising can support transformative educational practice across Wales.

ProFIS and the Fight for Educational Equality in Brazil

Posted on 5 October 2023 by Dr Kevin Smith

How can higher education challenge inequality rather than reproduce it? In this guest post, students from ProFIS at UNICAMP share how their groundbreaking programme is opening doors, transforming futures, and reimagining what access to university can mean in Brazil.

Getting Radical: Pedagogy, Philosophy, and the Roots of Education

Posted on 9 November 2022 by Dr Kevin Smith

What does it mean to teach—and learn—radically? In this post, I discuss how radical pedagogy invites us to dig beneath the surface of education, uncovering its roots in philosophy, justice and our shared responsibility to the Earth.

Thinking Philosophically About Pedagogy: Teaching, Wisdom, and the More-than-Human

Posted on 17 October 2022 by Dr Kevin Smith

What does it mean to teach wisely? In this post, I share how thinking philosophically can enrich our understanding of pedagogy—helping educators make more deliberate, defensible, and compassionate decisions in the classroom.

A Special Issue of the SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice

Posted on 30 July 2021 by Dr Kevin Smith

Guest Editors: Kevin Smith, Cardiff University and Brandon Edwards-Schuth, Washington State University. https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonpreneur/33540117678/ Photo: Phillip McMaster - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dragonpreneur/ The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice is interested in research studies […]

Coddling White Ignorance: Pedagogical Grace and Racial Justice in Teacher Education

Posted on 4 February 2021 by Dr Kevin Smith

How can educators confront white ignorance without abandoning grace? In this powerful reflection, Dr Kevin Talbert considers how teacher education must move beyond comforting white innocence toward a practice of truth-telling, accountability and love that fosters genuine transformation.