about
Jessie Beier (MEd, PhD) is a teacher, artist, researcher, philosopher and conjurer of weird pedagogies for unthought futures. Working at the intersection of art, philosophy and pedagogy, Beier’s research-creation practice experiments with developing ecological dissensus and heretical forms of pedagogy aimed at collective practices of negation, refusal and fabulation. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Concordia University (Montreal), an artist-researcher with Speculative Energy Futures (University of Alberta) and author of the book Pedagogy at the End of the World: Weird Pedagogies for Unthought Educational Futures (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023).
research interests
Educational philosophy; curriculum theory; art & visual culture education; communication technologies; film, media theory & media education; language & critical literacy education; radical pedagogy; anti-fascist, anti-racist and anti-colonial education; sound studies & sonic ecologies; feminist science studies & cyber/tech/xeno/feminist philosophy; climate justice & environmental social justice; energy humanities; future studies; ecological praxis in light of the so-called Anthropocene; research-creation; philo-fiction, theory-fiction, non-philosophy & speculative praxis; and the interface of DeleuzoGuattarian philosophy with pedagogy.
