Dr Stephen Heimans
Senior Lecturer - Educ.Leadership
School of Education
+61 7 336 56868
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.
Book
Heimans, Stephen (2019). Disrupting Education Policy Enactment Research: Characterising, Dissensus and Ground-Up Change. New York, NY United States: DIO Press.
Book Chapters
Heimans, Stephen (2015). Taking a 'material turn' in education policy research?. Education Policy and Contemporary Theory: Implications for Research. (pp. 160-170) edited by Kalervo N. Gulson, Matthew Clarke and Eva Bendix Petersen. London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315818429
Boyle, Christopher and Heimans, Stephen (2014). Take action or do nothing: the educational dilemma of the teacher. Equality in education: fairness and inclusion. (pp. 51-57) edited by Hongzhi Zhang, Philip Wing Keung Chan and Christopher Boyle. Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers. doi: 10.1007/978-94-6209-692-9_5
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
Heimans, Stephen, Singh, Parlo and Kwok, Henry (2021). Pedagogic rights, public education and democracy. European Educational Research Journal, 1-12. doi: 10.1177/14749041211011920
Singh, Parlo, Hoyte, Frances, Heimans, Stephen and Exley, Beryl (2021). Teacher quality and teacher education: a critical policy analysis of international and Australian policies. The Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 46 (4), 1-15. doi: 10.14221/ajte.2021v46n4.1
Biesta, Gert, Takayama, Keita, Kettle, Margaret and Heimans, Stephen (2020). Teacher education between principle, politics, and practice: a statement from the new editors of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 48 (5), 455-459. doi: 10.1080/1359866x.2020.1818485
Biesta, Gert, Takayama, Keita, Kettle, Margaret and Heimans, Stephen (2020). Call for papers: a new agenda for teacher education research. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 48 (5), 460-462. doi: 10.1080/1359866x.2020.1818484
Heimans, Stephen, Kettle, Margaret, Biesta, Gert, Takayama, Keita, Singh, Parlo, Rowan, Leonie and Allen, Jeanne (2020). Editorial: editorial team transition. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 48 (4), 335-337. doi: 10.1080/1359866X.2020.1794572
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, 53 (1), 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
Heimans, Stephen, Singh, Parlo and Barnes, Andrew (2020). Researching educational disadvantage: concepts emerging from working in/with an Australian school. Improving Schools, 24 (2), 1-11. doi: 10.1177/1365480220938892
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 and Singh, Parlo (2018). Putting the steam back into critique?‘Gathering’ for critical–dissensual collaborations in education policy research. Policy Futures in Education, 16 (2), 185-201. doi: 10.1177/1478210317736209
Singh, Parlo, Heimans, Stephen, Rowan, Leonie and Allen, Jeanne (2017). Some reflections about the political epistemologies of teacher education research. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 45 (5), 435-438. doi: 10.1080/1359866X.2017.1377916
Heimans, Stephen, Singh, Parlo and Glasswell, Kathryn (2017). Doing education policy enactment research in a minor key. Discourse, 38 (2), 185-196. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2015.1074428
Heimans, Stephen and Singh, Parlo (2016). Re-presenting, performing critical/post-critical research realities. Research in Education, 96 (1), 93-109. doi: 10.1177/0034523716664606
Heimans, Stephen (2016). Fieldwork in philosophy, emancipation and researcher dis-position: A post-qualitative research exemplar. Qualitative Research Journal, 16 (1), 2-12. doi: 10.1108/QRJ-08-2014-0035
Heimans, Stephen (2014). Education policy enactment research: disrupting continuities. Discourse, 35 (2), 307-316. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2013.832566
Singh, Parlo, Heimans, Stephen and Glasswell, Kathryn (2014). Policy enactment, context and performativity: ontological politics and researching Australian National Partnership policies. Journal of Education Policy, 29 (6), 826-844. doi: 10.1080/02680939.2014.891763
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.