Simon Fraser University
Dr. Charles Bingham
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Curriculum Theory

In my research, I investigate philosophical perspectives on curriculum and education. I focus on such themes as recognition, authority, truth and self-fashioning as these themes become meaningful in curricular and educational interactions. As well, I focus on critical multicultural practices, philosophies of language, and literary renditions of school experience. Some of the thinkers that inform my work are Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Jacques Rancière, Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Franz Fanon, Jessica Benjamin, and Mikhail Bakhtin.

Email: charles_bingham@sfu.ca

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1991-Present Over-schooled The Old School
1988 Teaching Certification University of Puget Sound
1983 B.A., Mathematics Whitman College

Selected Publications

Books

Bingham, C. and Biesta, G. (in press, October 2010). Jacques Rancière: Education, Truth, Emancipation. Continuum Press.

Bingham, C. Authority is Relational: Rethinking Educational Empowerment. State University of New York Press, 2008.

Bingham, C. and Sidorkin, A, eds. No Education without Relation. Peter Lang Publishers, 2004.

Bingham, C.  Schools of Recognition:  Identity Politics and Classroom Practices.  Rowman & Littlefield publishers, May 2001.

Articles

Bingham, C., Dejene, A., Krilic, A., Sadowski, E. (in press 2012).  “Can the Taught                       Book Speak?” Philosophy of Education.

Bingham, C. (2012). “Sexism Tinges Criticism of Teachers’ Job Action,The Tyee, (Vancouver newspaper).

Bingham, C. (2011).  “Two Educational Ideas for 2011 and Beyond.” Studiesin                             Philosophy and Education. 30 (5), pp. 513-519.

Bingham, C.  and Krilic, A. (2011).  “Here’s to all the Cheaters.”*  Philosophy                              of Education, pp. 15-23.  *Featured essay.

Bingham, C. (2010).   “Settling no Conflict in the Public Place:  Truth in Education,                    and in Rancièrean Scholarship.”  Educational Philosophy and Theory 42 (5-6). 649-                    665.

Bingham, C. (2010). “Hermeneutics,” The International Encyclopedia of Education (online).

Bingham, C. (2009).  “Between Emma and the Art Connoisseur.”*  Philosophy of                        Education, 75-83.  *Featured Essay

Bingham, C. (2009). “Under the Name of Method:  On Jacques Rancière’s                                   Presumptive Tautology.”  Journal of Philosophy of Education, 43-3, pp. 405-420.

Bingham, C. (2008) “Derrida on Teaching: The Economy of Erasure,” Studies in Philosophy and Education 27 (1), 15-31.

Bingham, C (2007). “The Relation of No Relation,” Philosophy of Education.

Bingham, C. (2007) “Montaigne, Neitzsche, and the Mnemotechnics of Student Agency,” Educational Philosophy and Theory, 39 (2) 168-181.

Bingham, C. (2006). “The Literary Life of Educational Authority,” Journal of Philosophy of Education, 40 (3), 357-369.

Bingham, C. (2006). “Before Recognition, and After: The Educational Critique,” Educational Theory, 56 (3), 325-344.

Bingham, C. (2006). “Authority is Never Genuine, but Neither is Giving It Up: Toward a Derridean Theory of Un-Enlightened Empowerment,” Philosophy of Education 2006, 453-461.

Bingham, C. (2005). “Who are the Philosophers of Education?” Studies in Philosophy and Education, Volume 24, 1-18.

Bingham, C. (2005). “The Hermeneutics of Educational Questioning,” Educational Philosophy and Theory, 37 (4), 553-565.

Bingham, C, Sidorkin, A. (2004). Introduction to the book, No Education Without Relations, in Charles Bingham and Alexander Sidorkin Eds., No Education Without Relations, New York: Peter Lang.

Bingham, C. (2004). “The Presence of Relation,” Philosophical Studies in Education, Volume 35, 1-6.

Bingham, C. (2004) “Pragmatic Intersubjectivity, or, Just Using Teachers,” Philosophy of Education 2004, 245-253.

Bingham, C. (2004). “Authority is Relational,” in Charles Bingham and Alexander Sidorkin Eds., No Education Without Relations, New York: Peter Lang.

Bingham, C. (2004). “Justice and Human Equity,” in Critical Thinking and Learning: An Encyclopedia for Parents and Teachers, New York: Greenwood Press.

Bingham, C. (2004). “Knowledge Acquisition,” in Critical Thinking and Learning: An Encyclopedia for Parents and Teachers, New York: Greenwood Publishers.

Bingham, C. (2003). “The Educational Community,” Philosophy of Education 2003, 141-145.

Bingham, C. (2003). “Educational Authority: Its Happy Violence,” Philosophical Studies in Education, Volume 34, 45-54.

“Authority and Educational Questioning,” Philosophical Studies in Education.  Volume 33, Fall 2002.

“Paulo Freire’s Debt to Psychoanalysis:  Authority on the Side of Freedom,” forthcoming Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2002, Volume 6.

“A Dangerous Benefit:  Dialogue, Discourse, and Michel Foucault’s Critique of Representation,” in print in Interchange 2002.

“In Education, Excess Without Remorse,” Philosophy of Education, 2002.

(with Alexander Sidorkin) “Aesthetics and the Paradox of Educational Relation,” Journal of Philosophy of Education, Winter, 2001.

(with John Gabriel) “The Exchange of Teaching: Money, Class, and Ethnicity in Anzia Yezeirska’s Breadgivers,” Journal of Thought, Winter 2001.

“What Nietzsche Can’t Stand About Education: Toward a Pedagogy of Self-Reformulation,” Educational Theory, Summer 2001.

“I Am the Missing Pages of the Text I Teach:  Gadamer and Derrida on Teacher Authority,” Philosophy of Education, 2001.

“Stomaching Education,” Philosophical Studies in Education, 2000.

Review of Alexander Sidorkin’s Beyond Discourse:  Education, the Self, and Dialogue, in Educational Studies. Winter, 2000, Vol. 31, Number 4.

“Children’s Texts and Social Activism,” Philosophical Studies in Education.  Volume 31, Fall 2000.

“Toward Dialogic Education,” Journal of Thought, Volume 35, Number 4, Winter 2000.

Review of Jaylynne Hutchinson’s Students on the Margins:  Education, Stories, Dignity.  In Educational Studies, Fall/Winter, 1999, Vol. 30, Numbers 3-4.

“The Power of the Oedipal Myth:  Toward a Hermeneutic Infatuation with Psychoanalysis,” Philosophical Studies in Education, Volume 30, Fall 1999.

“Language and Intersubjectivity:  Recognizing the Other Without Taking Over or Giving In,” Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Volume 6, Numbers 3-4, Fall-Winter 1999.

The Goals of Language, the Language of Goals:  Nietzsche’s Use of Rhetoric and its Educational Implications.”  Educational Theory, Spring, 1998.

“The Poetic Theorizing of Langston Hughes:  Curriculum and the Education of Identity.” Journal of Thought, Winter, 1998.

“Power Transformers,Philosophy of Education, 1998.

Manuscripts Under Review

Conference Presentations

Bingham, C. (2007, Spring). “The Relation of No Relation,” Philosophy of Education Society.

Bingham, C. (2006, Spring) “Authority is Never Genuine, but Neither is Giving It Up:

Toward a Derridean Theory of Un-Enlightened Empowerment,” Philosophy of Education Society Conference.

Bingham, C. (2006, Fall). “Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy and Progressive Education: Are There Contradictions Here?” International Conference on Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy, Chicago, IL.

Bingham, C. (2005, Spring). “Pragmatic Intersubjectivity, or, Just Using Teachers,” Philosophy of Education Society Conference.

Bingham, C. (2003, March). Response to Jose Mesa, “Revisiting an Old Predicament: Primacy of the Individual or the Community?” presented at the Philosophy of Educational Society Conference.

Bingham, C. (2003, May). Round Table on the book, Schools of Recognition. Presented at the University of Washington.

Bingham, C. (2003, Fall). Response to Randall Lennox, “Exploring the Habits of Mind of Philosophers of Education,” Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society.

“Education as the Living of a Life:  Foucault, Gadamer, and the Education of the self,” Far Western Philosophy of Education Society, Nov. 7-9, 1997.

“Homophobia, Education, and the Distortion of Discourse:  The Speaking Prejudices,” American Educational Studies Association, October 29-November 2, 1997.

“Language and Intersubjectivity:  Recognizing the Other Without Taking Over or Giving In,” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Aug. 9-15, 1998.

(with Kate Evans) “Tag You’re It, Fag You’re It:  Theorizing Performativity in Education,” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing conference, Oct 21-25, 1998.

“The Power of the Oedipal Myth:  Toward a Hermeneutic Infatuation with Psychoanalysis,” Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, October 16-17, 1998.

“Poets, Novelists, and Classroom Democracies,” presented at the Democracy and Education. Athens, Ohio. October, 1999.

“The Queer Teachings of Ma Vie en Rose: Unintelligibility as a Condition of Education,” presented at the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing Conference. Dayton, Ohio.  October, 1999.

“The Business of Classroom Texts:  Classroom Use of Nappy Hair,”  presented at the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Conference.  Dayton, Ohio.  October, 1999.

“Learning as Authorship:  Classroom Talk Versus Classroom Discourse,” colloquium presentation at the College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Sponsored by the Department of Educational Policy Studies.  April 24, 2000.

“Beyond Student Voice and Power:  Education as Authorship,”  presented as the American Educational Studies Association conference, Fall 2000.

“I am the Missing Pages of the Text I Teach:  Gadamer and Derrida on Teacher Authority,” presented at the Philosophy of Education Society Conference, Chicago IL, Spring 2001.

“Questioning Authority in Education,”  presented at the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society Conference, Dayton OH, Fall 2001.

“No Educational Without Relations,” symposium presented at the American Educational Studies Association conference, Miami, Florida, Fall 2001.

“On Paulo Freire’s Authority:  Addressing the Problem of Domination and Submission,” presented at the American Educational Studies Association Conference, Fall 2001.

“From the Visible to the Hypervisible,” presented at the Philosophy of Education Society Conference, Vancouver, BC, Spring 2002.

“The Happy Violence of Educational Authority,” to be presented at the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Conference, Fall 2002.

“The Significance of Non-Presence” in the educational relation, to be presented at the Northwest Philosophy of Education Society Conference, Fall 2002.

“Psyche and Performativity in the Educational Relation,” to be presented at the American Educational Studies Association Conference, Fall 2002.

“Education and Relation,” symposium to be presented at the American Educational Studies Association Conference, Fall 2002.

“Power Transformers,” Philosophy of Education Society, March 26-29, 1998.

“Questioning Authority in Education,” DePaul University, Winter 2001.

“Stomaching Education,” response to Jaylynne Hutchinson’s presidential address at the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society Conference, Fall 2000.

“Why Literature When Words Might Do?” presented at the Simon Fraser University Faculty of Education Symposium, October 5th, 2002.

Honors, Leadership, Service & Grants

  • Program Committee Chair, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, 2003.
  • Executive Committee, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, 2001-2004.
  • Program Committee, Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, 2000.
  • Quality of Instruction Council Grant, DePaul University (co-authored with Ronald Chennault), $3600.
  • Designing of ISP 200 course, Multiculturalism in Education:  Race in Black and White.  Summer, 2001.
  • Recipient of the University of Washington College of Education’s Gordon C. Lee Dissertation Award, 1999-2000.
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