Publications

Substack for Elke

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Articles for a broader audience

The Danse Macabre between Belgian’s colonial past and the sustainability discourse (2024, essay published in Medium)

Against bullshit jobs and bullshitis: a call for anarchisation (2023, essay published in Medium)

Why educative school leadership based on anarcho-syndicalist principles will fail, but is still necessary: A conversation at the intersection of theory and practice (2023, intellectual conversation in Management in Education)

(Re-)thinking human flourishing in the privileged spaces of international schools, (2023, article in Research Journal, International Education, Theory and Practice – RIPE) 

How to approach difficult knowledge in the classroom, (2023, article in TES)

Learning by Leading: the Outdoor Leadership Programme, (2022, article in Horizons Magazine)

Flexible Learning: Podcasts, poetry, aliens and animals, (2021, article in TES)

From measuring test results to personal growth (2021, article in The International Educator)

Towards defamilisarisation and curriculum in a new key (2021, article in Pesa Agora)

Embracing democratic dissent in a data-driven age (2021, article in ECIS)

Why calling everything a ‘crisis’ is damaging (2021, article in TES)

International Leaders and Wellbeing: The Research Review (2021, article in TES)

Wellbeing and International Schools: The Research Review (2021, article in TES)

Wellbeing, Relationships and Teaching as a Caring Profession? (2021, article in The International Educator

International School Leadership During Tough Times: Reflecting on What Matters (2021, article in East Asia Regional Council of Schools)

Creating a truly rounded educational offering, (2021, article in TES)

Academic publications

Alberro, H., Van dermijnsbrugge, E., Firth, R. & Kopnina, H.(2026). Educating to transgress: Ecotopian Pedagogies for the Symbiocene. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2026.2663118

Chatelier, S. & Van dermijnsbrugge, E. (2022) Beyond instrumentalist leadership in schools: Educative leadership and anarcho-syndicates. Management in Education. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/08920206221130590

Chatelier, S., Van dermijnsbrugge, E. & Roosenburg, F. (2023). Why educative school leadership based on anarcho-syndicalist principles will fail, but is still necessary: A conversation at the intersection of theory and practice. Management in Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/08920206231200088 

Jackson, L. & Van dermijnsbrugge, E. (2022), Educational Research: An Unorthodox Introduction Gert Biesta Bloomsbury, 2020, Pp. 169 (book review). Educational Theory. https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12515

Van dermijnsbrugge, E. (2027). Education for Uprising: The radical imagination and direct action as collective practices. In Chatelier, S., Thomas, A., Rudolph, S., Fricker, A., Cabiles, B., Gannaway, J (Eds.). Educational agitations: imaginings, experiments and speculations towards anti-oppressive futures. 



Van dermijnsbrugge, E. (2024). Beyond Hope and Despair: The Radical  Imagination as a Collective Practice for Uprising. Educational Philosophy and Theory. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2024.2333853

Van dermijnsbrugge, E. (2023). Imagining alternative futures in the present: Punk Ethnography as a guiding practice in education and beyond. In Stewart, F., Way, L. (Eds.). Disruptions and connections – Punk pedagogies in practice. Intellect. 

Van dermijnsbrugge, E. (2022). Rethinking research methodologies: Punk Ethnography as a futures forming practice. Dewey Studies.

Van dermijnsbrugge, E. & Chatelier, S. (2022). Utopia as method: A response to education in crisis? Asia Pacific Journal of Education. DOI: 10.1080/02188791.2022.2031870

Interviews and podcasts

A perspective on international teaching, researching and more (2023, ITE Talks)

Innovative Research Methodologies: Punk Ethnography (2023, British Educational Research Association) 

Beyond the orthodoxies : alternative concepts and tools for research (2021, British Educational Research Association)