Tanu Biswas | Universitetet i Stavanger

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Telefon: 51831496

Organisasjonsenhet

Fakultet for utdanningsvitenskap og humaniora

Inst. for grunnskolelærerutdanning, idrett og spesialpedagogikk

Kort om meg

My work as an interdisciplinary philosopher of education is dedicated to challenging children’s historical marginalization by transforming scholarly and social norms, especially in the areas of pedagogy, childism, decoloniality, children's rights, intergenerational climate justice and qualitative methodology. I am an Associate Professor in Pedagogy at the University of Stavanger (Norway) and mentor for early career researchers at the Doctoral College for Intersectionality Studies at the University of Bayreuth (Germany). I also serve as the co-director of The Childism Institute, University of Rutgers Camden (USA).

Publikasjoner

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Tanu Biswas; Hanna Oester-Barkey (2025) Between Norway and the world: why absent perspectives in pedagogical psychology textbooks matter. I: Pedagogy, Culture & Society. ISSN 1468-1366. s.1-19. DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2025.2597781

Gustavo Belisário; Tanu Biswas (2025) ‘Saber brincar’: A childist decolonial approach to play. I: Educação, Sociedade & Culturas (ESC). ISSN 0872-7643. Volum 70. s.1-8. DOI: 10.24840/esc.vi70.1413

Tanu Biswas; Eleonora Florio; Letizia Caso; Illaria Castelli; Serena Iacobino (2024) The Adultcentrism Scale: A Potential Contributor to Advancing Children’s Participation Rights in Nordic Contexts. I: Social Sciences. Online ISSN 2076-0760. Volum 13. DOI: 10.3390/socsci13050238

Tanu Biswas; Thomas Hylland Eriksen (2024) Children as environmental actors : a generational perspective on climate activism in an overheated world. I: Tatek Abebe; Anandini Dar; Karen Wells, Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development,. Routledge. ISBN 9780367740436. s.151-162. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5132383

Tanu Biswas; Liola Nike Mattheis (2024) Developing Disobedience: A Decolonial Childist Perspective on School Strikes for Climate Justice. I: American Behavioral Scientist. ISSN 0002-7642. DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268596

Tanu Biswas; Enaya Mubasher (2023) Arriving at a question: Retrospections on post-qualitative slow research with children. I: Global Studies of Childhood. Online ISSN 2043-6106. Volum 13. DOI: 10.1177/20436106231179605

Tanu Biswas (2023) Becoming good ancestors: A decolonial,childist approach to global intergenerational sustainability. I: Children & society. ISSN 0951-0605. DOI: 10.1111/chso.12722

Tanu Biswas; John Wall; Hanne Warming; Ohad Zehavi; David Kennedy; Karin Murris; Walter Kohan; Britta Saal; Toby Rollo (2023) Childism and philosophy: A conceptual co-exploration. I: Policy Futures in Education. Online ISSN 1478-2103. DOI: 10.1177/14782103231185178

Tanu Biswas (2022) What takes ‘us’ so long? The philosophical poverty of childhood studies and education. I: Childhood. ISSN 0907-5682. s.1-16. DOI: 10.1177/09075682221111642

Tanu Biswas; Nikolas Mattheis (2021) Strikingly educational: A childist perspective on children’s civil disobedience for climate justice. I: Educational Philosophy and Theory. ISSN 0013-1857. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2021.1880390

Tanu Biswas (2021) Letting Teach: Gen Z as Socio-Political Educators in an Overheated World. I: Frontiers in Political Science. Online ISSN 2673-3145. DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2021.641609

Tanu Biswas (2021) Who needs sensory education?. I: Studies in Philosophy and Education. ISSN 0039-3746. Volum 40. DOI: 10.1007/s11217-021-09763-y

Tanu Biswas (2021) Zur Misopädie von Urbanisierung und schulischer Bildung: Eine Würdigung Colin Wards. I: s u b u r b a n. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. ISSN 2197-2567. Volum 9. DOI: 10.36900/suburban.v9i3/4.718

Tatek Abebe; Tanushree Biswas (2021) Rights 'in' Education: Outlines for a Decolonial, Childist Reimagination of the Future – Commentary to Ansell and Colleagues.. I: Fennia. ISSN 0015-0010. Volum 199. s.118-128. DOI: 10.11143/fennia.107490

Tanu Biswas (2020) Little Things Matter Much - Childist Ideas for the Pedagogy of Philosophy in an Overheated World. Büro Himmelgrün. ISBN 9783947186136. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3983430

Tanu Biswas (2017) Philosophieren mit Kindern über Grenzen hinweg – eine childistische Perspektive. I: Polylog : Forum for Intercultural Philosophy. ISSN 1560-6325. Volum 37. s.89-102. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3271523

Tanu Biswas (2014) Technology, Excretion and the Good Life. I: European Journal of Sustainable Development. ISSN 2239-5938. Volum 3. s.177-188. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3342780

Bøker og kapitler

Tanu Biswas, Vebjørg Tingstad (veileder). (2013). Paradoxes of Conversion: Everyday Lives of Tibetan Buddhist Child Monks in Ladakh. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/269100

Formidling

Lena Lindgren; Tanu Biswas; Sigurd Hverven; Beate Charlotte Lunde (2026) Barnets makt og avmakt - NRK Radio. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5559057

Tanu Biswas (2026) In the Pensive Pause of Supervision: A Footnote on Citing Santos | Platypus. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5559058

Tanu Biswas (2025) Transform Research Cultures: The Role of Doctoral Inquiry in Age-Inclusive Knowledge Production. European Educational Research Association Summer School 2025; 2025-06-02 - 2025-06-06. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5096096

Tanu Biswas (2025) UiS-styret bør ikke stemme over ECIU-saken nå. I: Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4701952

Tanu Biswas (2025) Sviktende tallgrunnlag og tillit i styringskulturen. I: Khrono.no. ISSN 1894-8995. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4150114

Tanu Biswas (2025) Una svolta trasformativa per il childism in Italia (prefazione al libro di Maura Tripi - Non chiamateli bambini. Un’introduzione al childism). https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4400961

Tanu Biswas (2024) Facing the epistemology of non-perception through decolonial childism. Raising awareness of scientific epistemology/ies: Potential biases and opportunities in society and academia; 2024-04-29. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4141264

Eleonora Florio; Tanu Biswas; Illaria Castelli; Letizia Caso (2024) Bleak Pedagogy: a new term unveiled from research on Adultcentrism. ATEE Spring Conference 2024 “Teacher education research in Europe: trends, challenges, practices and perspectives”; 2024-05-29 - 2024-06-01. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3779451

Tanu Biswas (2024) Klage, klage, beklager. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4585149

Tanu Biswas; Toby Rollo (2024) confronting adultcentrism: childist and decolonial interventions in educational philosophies and institutions. I: childhood & philosophy. ISSN 2525-5061. Volum 20. DOI: 10.12957/childphilo.2024.88634

Tanu Biswas (2024) Childism Beyond Children. Misopédie: La domination adulte dans les discours contemporains artistiques, scientifiques, politiques et médicaux; 2024-10-03 - 2024-10-04. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4772238

Tanu Biswas (2024) Educational Research in Europe: decolonise, democratise and develop. Legacies and futurities. Round Table with Dalila Pinto Coelho and Pedro Ferreira. European Educational Research Association Summer School 2024; 2024-07-01 - 2024-07-05. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4654171

Tanu Biswas (2024) Childist research by adults with and without children. Symposium on Childism and Child Prism Reearch with Hanne Warming, Sarah Alminde, Jeanette Sundhall, Christina Haandbæk Schmidt and Anna Busk Rasmussen. 3rd Child Life Conference; 2024-09-23 - 2024-09-25. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4354865

Tanu Biswas (2024) Childism - En transformativ tilnærming til voksensentriske barrierer for sosial rettferdighet. Guest Lecture; 2024-12-06. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5090389

Tanu Biswas (2023) Positionality: Research Ethics Beyond Legal Correctness. MA Medborgerskap og Samhandling - Course on Methods ; 2023-10-03. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3685995

Tanu Biswas (2023) Stand-points of departure: Epistemological implications of the figure of the child in Nordic humanities and social science research. PhD Seminar on Epistemologies; 2023-11-09. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4117256

John Wall; Tanu Biswas (2023) Childism and Childhood Studies. Children in Theory; 2023-11-07. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4511183

Tanu Biswas; John Wall (2023) Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences. I: Children & society. ISSN 0951-0605. DOI: 10.1111/chso.12738

Tanu Biswas (2023) On Becoming Good Ancestors: A childist reading of Sacchi et al vs Argentina et al 2019. 2023 Summer/Winter School – Transformations and transitions in the right to a healthy environment through the rights of children/youth; 2023-09-11 - 2023-09-15. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4252162

Tanu Biswas (2023) Positionality at the intersections of adultism and racism/coloniality. PhD curated event lecture for the Doctoral College for Intersectionality Studies; 2023-06-15. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4676740

Tanu Biswas (2023) Soziale Partizipation: Möglichkeiten innerhalb der Begrenzungen. Keynote for 12. Baustelle Inclusion. Department of Children's Worlds; 2023-06-23. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4401625

Tanu Biswas (2023) Childist notes on positionality and arriving at questions in educational research. Early Career Collquium on Emprical Educational Research; 2023-04-25. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3845664

Tanu Biswas (2023) Review - Feminist Reflections on Childhood: A History and Call to Action by Penny Weiss. I: Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. ISSN 0887-5367. s.1-4. DOI: 10.1017/hyp.2023.52

Tanu Biswas (2023) A childist perspective on children’s civil disobedience for climate justice: Transformative ways of thinking pedagogy and marginalisation. PhD Course: Pedagogikkens legitimitet i lys av samtidens utfordringer for demokratisk deltakelse; 2023-11-15 - 2023-11-18. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3484286

Tanu Biswas (2022) Eine dekoloniale Perspektive auf die Kinderrechte. 11. Baustelle Inklusion; 2022-06-27. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3454115

Tanu Biswas (2022) Ageism and Childism. Lecture Series "Too young, too old? Age as a marker of social difference across the life course and intergenerational injustice from a global perspective; 2022-01-12. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4194677

Tanu Biswas (2022) #childism - On the contemporary significance of a seriously playful label. Global Childhoods Network Meeting; 2022-11-16 - 2022-11-18. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5239927

Tanu Biswas (2022) Stavanger er Stedet: Decolonial Childist Notes for Thomas Hylland Eriksen. Workshop Series: Perspectives On Environmental Justice in Scandinavian Green Transitions,; 2022-10-18. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4120747

Tanu Biswas (2021) Childism and Adultism - Between Theory and Practise. Children's Rights as Cross Cutting International Field of Study and Action; 2021-03-23. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4763391

Tanu Biswas (2021) Childist Discomfort with Pedagogy - Are We Schooling toward Intergenerational Injustice?. Speaker Series: Feminist Philosophical Approaches to Oppression and Injustice; 2021-12-07. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5080235

Chris McNutt; Tanu Biswas; Toby Rollo (1985) intersecting coloniality, youth autonomy, and adult supremacy w/ drs. tanu biswas & toby rollo # 136. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4642989

Kunstnerisk produksjon

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Educational Video 2: "Ethnicity and Race. Critical Whiteness". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4195112

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Educational Video 4: "White Fragility. Critical Whiteness". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5258951

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Educational Video 3: "White Privilege. Critical Whiteness". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3770783

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Undervisningsfilm 2: "Etnisitet og rase. Kritisk Hvithet". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4724442

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Educational Video 1: "Introduction. Critical Whiteness". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3453375

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Undervisningsfilm 7: "Kulturelt mangfold og det flerkulturelle i norsk utdanning. Kritisk Hvithet". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3885207

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Undervisningsfilm 4: "Hvit skjørhet. Kritisk Hvithet". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5092566

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Undervisningsfilm 5: "Forglemmelsespedagogikk i Norge. Kritisk Hvithet". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4132334

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Undervisningsfilm 6: "Den norske utdanningspolitiske kjeden. Kritisk Hvithet". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4274760

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Undervisningsfilm 3: "Hvite privileger. Kritisk Hvithet". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4540156

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Undervisningsfilm 1: "Introduksjon. Kritisk Hvithet". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4099475

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Educational Video 6: "The Norwegian Educational Policy Chain. Critical Whiteness". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3476952

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Educational Video 7: "Cultural Diversity and the Multicultural in Norway. Critical Whiteness". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3744512

Sandra Fylkesnes; Tanu Biswas (2023) Educational Video 5: "Pedagogy of Amnesia in Norway. Critical Whiteness". https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4493456

Marie Paule Bilger; Tanu Biswas (2018) Tanu is dancing. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4621608

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