Dr Stephen Heimans

Senior Lecturer - Educ.Leadership

School of Education

s.heimans@uq.edu.au

Researcher biography

Stephen Heimans is a Senior Lecturer in The School of Education at The University of Queensland. He writes and teaches about education policy/ leadership enactment, education research methodology and schooling in underserved communities. He is interested in the post-critical possibilities of Jacques Rancière's thinking and the philosophy of science of Isabelle Stengers- especially experimental constructivism.

Publications

Book Chapter (1)

Journal Articles (10)

Thesis (1)

Book Chapter

Lingard, Bob, Hardy, Ian and Heimans, Stephen (2012). Deparochializing educational research: three critical, illustrative narratives. Knowledge mobilization and educational research: politics, languages and responsibilities. (pp. 211-236) edited by Tara Fenwick and Lesley Farrell. New York, United States: Routledge.

Journal Articles

Kwok, Henry, Heimans, Stephen and Singh, Parlo (2020). Is the 2019 Water Revolution a lesson of emancipatory education? A Rancièrean invitation. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-11. doi: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1744132

Heimans, Stephen and Biesta, Gert (2020). Rediscovering the beauty and risk of education research and teaching: an interview with Gert Biesta by Stephen Heimans. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 48 (2), 101-111. doi: 10.1080/1359866X.2020.1731422

Heimans, Stephen and Singh, Parlo (2020). Schooling and poverty: re-thinking impact, research and social justice. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 48 (1), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/1359866x.2019.1700907

Singh, Parlo and Heimans, Stephen (2019). Cartographies of scholarship: Stephen Heimans talks to Parlo Singh about teaching, research, and the intellectual terrain of feminist scholarship with/after Bernstein. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 47 (5), 460-471. doi: 10.1080/1359866x.2019.1661960

Heimans, Stephen (2014). Education policy enactment research: disrupting continuities. Discourse, 35 (2), 307-316. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2013.832566

Heimans, Stephen (2012). Educational policy, practice, and power. Educational Policy, 26 (3), 369-393. doi: 10.1177/0895904810397338

Heimans, Stephen (2012). Coming to matter in practice: Enacting education policy. Discourse, 33 (2), 313-326. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2012.666083

Heimans,Stephen (2011). Contesting the Neo-liberal lash-up: Policy paradoxes and possibilities. Social Alternatives, 30 (4), 15-19.

Hardy, Ian, Heimans, Stephen and Lingard, Bob (2011). Journal Rankings: Positioning the field of educational research and educational academics. Power and Education, 3 (1), 4-17. doi: 10.2304/power.2011.3.1.5

Heimans, Stephen (2010). The education debate. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 31 (3), 393-395. doi: 10.1080/01596301003787025

Thesis

Heimans, Stephen (2013). Characterising - (an) Education Policy. PhD Thesis, School of Education, The University of Queensland.

Areas of research

Equity, inclusion, diversity and cultures

Global change and policy

Teacher preparation and leadership