About the Author
Derek R. Ford
received his PhD in cultural foundations of education from Syracuse University in 2015. He is currently assistant professor of education studies at DePauw University, USA, where he also serves on the steering committee of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. His teaching and research take place at the nexus between educational theory and political movements and are generally concerned with ways that pedagogy can help us re-imagine and re-enact our ways of being-together. Within this trajectory, he’s published and taught about a range of topics from air, aesthetics, and sound to space, affect, and anti-imperialism.
Ford has published four monographs—the latest of which are Politics and Pedagogy in the “Post-Truth” Era: Insurgent Politics and Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Education and the Production of Space: Political Pedagogy, Geography, and Urban Revolution (Routledge, 2017)—and edited or co-edited five books, including Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education: Common Concepts for Contemporary Movements (Brill | Sense, 2019) and Educational Commons in Theory and Practice: Global Pedagogy and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). His work has appeared in a variety of academic journals, including Cultural Politics, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Critical Education, and the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.
Ford currently serves as an associate editor of Postdigital Science and Education and as an assistant editor of the Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. He co-edits three book series, including “Radical Politics and Education” (Bloomsbury) and “Marxist, Socialist, and Communist Studies in Education” (IAP).
He is chair of the education department at The Hampton Institute (a working-class think tank) and editor of LiberationSchool.org.