Areas of Expertise
- Educational Philosophy
- Educational Policy
- Learning Technologies
Keywords
Educational Philosophy and Theory, Sociology of Education, Learning, Work, and Technology, University Studies, Academic Freedom, Environmental Education, Social Movements
Research Methodologies
- Mixed Methods
- Qualitative Methods
- Single Case Research
Research Levels
- Adult Learning
- Community
- Informal Education
- K–12
- Postsecondary
Research Overview
My work is concerned with how education, teaching, and learning can enable individuals to locate themselves within history and the constellations of power, culture, technology, and ideology that are shaping collective experiences of space and time, relative conditions of vulnerability and precarity, as well as the ability or inability to engage meaningfully in collective life. Thus, I am interested in education and pedagogy not simply as formal institutional processes, but unresolved questions of how human beings, within complex histories and social orders, learn to relate to themselves, others, and the world. This involves analyzing capital, labor, complex cultural exchanges, nationalism and imperialism, identity and difference, and the mediating role of media technologies (such as AI) in the constitution of thought, subjectivity, social relations, and political identifications.
- Means, A. J. & Magalhães Neto, A. C. (2026). Contesting global far-right education. Cambridge University Press.
- Means, A. J. (2026). Teaching against the machine: Critical pedagogy in an era of artificial intelligence. Bloomsbury.
- Means, A. J., & Saltman, K. J. (2027 in press). Critical studies of AI in education. Cambridge University Press.
- Means, A. J. (2018). Learning to save the future: Rethinking education and work in the era of digital capitalism. Routledge.
- Series editor, Elements in the Cultural Politics of Education, Cambridge University Press
- Series editor, Critical Directions in Education, Technology, and Politics, Bloomsbury Academic
- Editor-in-Chief, Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Taylor and Francis