Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
My career in the visual arts began as an artist studying at what is now the UNSW Faculty of Art Design and Architecture between 1982 and 1984, where I gained a BA in Visual Arts. I returned to university in 1995 completing a B Art Education with Honours in 1998. I then undertook a PhD on the history of art teacher education in Australia, graduating in 2003. I began teaching in primary and secondary schools in NSW between 2001 and 2006. Since 2007 I have worked at Monash in the Faculty of Education across the early childhood, primary and secondary programs, with special responsibility for the method Visual Arts for secondary teachers.
Research interests
I am a queer theorist with a current focus on the implications of gender policy for transgender and gender variant people. My training as a philosopher and queer theorist was undertaken between 2013 and 2021 in the compilation of my second doctorate, under the tutelage of Joanne Faulkner (Macquarie) Paul Patton (UNSW) and Nicole Anderson (Macquarie). This work allows me to explore links between sex identity, gender, the family, and education. In the past, my research has included the history of education, the relationship between educational history and the history of the concept of education, and the ways in which education calculates the value of human capital.
As a specialist in visual art education I am interested in the epistemological privilege enjoyed by mathematics and science, as well as cognitive psychology, in the structure of education as an academic discipline. Some of my work has investigated what has led to the subordination of visual arts in the curriculum hierarchy, which positions literacy and numeracy at its apex.
I am continuing to explore the conceptual links between the forms of power in educatoin at an institutional level, and parallel forms of power in the family. This line of inquiry also explores the way in which human beings are already positioned in education through concepts of sex and race. In general I am interested in how to translate the work of Jacques Derrida with respect to the question of sex identity, especially the way sex frames authoritative professional roles in education and childcare.
Supervision interests
Chris has supervised students in research about the arts in education; early childhood policy; history and philosophy of education.
Research interests
Monash teaching commitment
Biography
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Philosophy, PhD, Macquarie University
25 Apr 2018 → 19 May 2022
Award Date: 19 May 2022
Research area keywords
- Education Policy
- Visual Arts
- education philosophy
- economics of education
- curriculum theory
Projects
- 3 Finished
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Early Year Learning Framework Baseline Study
Fleer, M., Agbenyega, J., Bone, J., Hammer, M., Peers, C., Power, K., Ridgway, A. & Shah, C.
1/06/11 → 28/02/12
Project: Research
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Contemporary Child Development Theory for Early Childhood Educators
Fleer, M., Agbenyega, J., Bone, J., Hammer, M., Monk, H., Peers, C., Ridgway, A. & Rivalland, C.
1/04/10 → 31/01/11
Project: Research
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Catastrophe or apocalypse? The anthropocenologist as pedagogue
Peers, C., 2021, (Accepted/In press) In: Educational Philosophy and Theory. 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The deconstructed ethics of Martin Heidegger, or, the university sous rature
Peers, C., 2021, In: Educational Philosophy and Theory. 53, 5, p. 492-504 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Belonging and language
Peers, C., 2020, In: Global Studies of Childhood. 10, 2, p. 170-182 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
'Destroying' the pedagogical imaginary: implications of sexual difference for educational philosophy
Peers, C., 2019, Feminist Theory in Diverse Productive Practices: An Educational Philosophy and Theory Gender and Sexualities Reader. Jackson, L. & Peters, M. A. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Taylor & Francis, Vol. 6. p. 117-135 19 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other › peer-review
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Policy Analysis and Document Research
Peers, C., 2018, International Handbook of Early Childhood Education. Fleer, M. & van Oers, B. (eds.). Springer, p. 203-224 22 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (External organisation)
Chris Peers (Member)
29 Mar 2016 → 29 Mar 2017Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Membership of an advisory panel/policy group/ board
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Reviewer - Submitted Manuscripts
Chris Peers (Member)
2015 → 2020Activity: External Academic Engagement › Peer review panel or committee
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International Research in Early Childhood Education
Megan Adams (Organiser) & Chris Peers (Organiser)
2014 → …Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Contribution to conference
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Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
Chris Peers (Member)
1 Jun 2013 → 1 Jun 2020Activity: External Academic Engagement › External research organisation, centre or institute
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IRECE journal (Publisher)
Chris Peers (Associate editor)
1 Jan 2008 → 1 Mar 2015Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial responsibility
Press / Media
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Live invited interview “ALDI banning Roald Dahl children’s books”.
24/08/14
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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How the cottage industries in class ideology did themselves in.
3/03/14
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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“Parties Fail to Address Childcare”; Invited commentary.
27/08/13
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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“Childcare Wage Reforms Stop Short of Real Change.”
22/03/13
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment