Author Archives: Tanu Biswas

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.
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In the Pensive Pause of Supervision: A Footnote on Citing Santos

Tanu Biswas August 20, 2026
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Author’s editorial prelude: In what follows, I open up insight into a micro-moment of everyday scholarly life which shows itself through the body; like that slightly deeper breath which follows while one is thinking through a problem that occupies the mind. Such fleeting moments pass unnoticed, yet they are part of the labour and effort of what counts as teaching and supervision ‘work’. I believe there is value in turning attention to and staying with such moments as they quietly shape how one thinks, reads, judges, writes, teaches, supervises and such. My request to the reader is to stay present with the moment, the internal self-talk, and recalls that I describe in this piece. A request that places a demand on the reader to perform the sometimes-tedious task of curbing the desire to go beyond the moment that is the subject of analytical attention. (read more...)

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