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 (9)

Thesis (1)

Book Chapter

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

Journal Articles

Kwok, Henry, Stephen Heimans 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

Stephen Heimans 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

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

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

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