Associate Professor in Pedagogy, University of Stavanger
About Tanu
I am childist philosopher, critically examining how adult-centred norms shape knowledge and social life with a focus on the intersecting position of children as well as those labelled 'child-like'. My scholarship challenges dominant, particularly, Euro-centric assumptions within philosophy of education by foregrounding the child perspectives and intergenerational relations asking what can those in powerful positions learn from children and 'the child-like'. Methodologically, my work draws closely on autoethnography and anthropology, treating lived experience as a legitimate site of philosophising rather than merely as empirical material. I use autoethnographic self-analysis and life experience as ways of thinking philosophically, particularly where questions of interdependence, justice, vulnerability, love, and power are at stake.