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Reader in Education & Director, Centre for Educational Consultancy and Development (CECD); Research Lead
Reader in Education & Director, Centre for Educational Consultancy and Development (CECD); Research Lead
I am a Reader in Education and Research Lead in the School of Education. I am also a Director of the Centre for Educational Consultancy and Development. As an anthropologist of education, my research focuses on processes of socialisation through schooling, particularly in the UK and United States. My knowledge exchange projects focus on working with schools, young people, and the general public to explore different ways of imagining the future. This is a theme of particular interest to schools given the increasingly uncertain nature of future prospects in the wake of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. Future-imagining includes discussions about how we might radically rethink what schooling might look like in the future.
I am a Reader in Education and Research Lead in the School of Education. I am also a Director of the Centre for Educational Consultancy and Development. As an anthropologist of education, my research focuses on processes of socialisation through schooling, particularly in the UK and United States. My knowledge exchange projects focus on working with schools, young people, and the general public to explore different ways of imagining the future. This is a theme of particular interest to schools given the increasingly uncertain nature of future prospects in the wake of Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. Future-imagining includes discussions about how we might radically rethink what schooling might look like in the future.
From 2017-2020 Alexander developed the FutureYou2020 art-research installation, exploring how young people imagine the future after schooling. Through interactive displays and an originally composed soundscape, public audiences have engaged with Alexander’s core research findings. The installation has been visited by thousands of individuals at the Ashmolean Museum (2016), the Bodleian library (2019), Pegasus Theatre (2018), at the Oxford Festival of Ideas (2019), Oxford Science Bazaar (2017), and Oxford Brookes Think Human Festivals in 2018 and 2020.
From 2017-2020 Alexander developed the FutureYou2020 art-research installation, exploring how young people imagine the future after schooling. Through interactive displays and an originally composed soundscape, public audiences have engaged with Alexander’s core research findings. The installation has been visited by thousands of individuals at the Ashmolean Museum (2016), the Bodleian library (2019), Pegasus Theatre (2018), at the Oxford Festival of Ideas (2019), Oxford Science Bazaar (2017), and Oxford Brookes Think Human Festivals in 2018 and 2020.
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