Tanu Biswas

Associate Professor

Tanu Biswas

Contact

Telephone: 51831496

Email: tanu.biswas@uis.no

Department

Faculty of Arts and Education

Department of Education and Sports Science

About me

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).  

Publications

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Biswas, Tanu; Florio, Eleonora; Caso, Letizia; Castelli, Illaria; Iacobino, Serena

(2024)

The Adultcentrism Scale: A Potential Contributor to Advancing Children’s Participation Rights in Nordic Contexts.

Social Sciences.

ISSN 2076-0760.

Volum 13.

Hefte 5.

DOI: 10.3390/socsci13050238

Biswas, Tanu; Mattheis, Liola Nike

(2024)

Developing Disobedience: A Decolonial Childist Perspective on School Strikes for Climate Justice.

American Behavioral Scientist.

ISSN 0002-7642.

DOI: 10.1177/00027642241268596

Biswas, Tanu; Mubasher, Enaya

(2023)

Arriving at a question: Retrospections on post-qualitative slow research with children.

Global Studies of Childhood.

ISSN 2043-6106.

DOI: 10.1177/20436106231179605

Biswas, Tanu; Wall, John; Warming, Hanne; Zehavi, Ohad; Kennedy, David; Murris, Karin; Kohan, Walter; Saal, Britta; Rollo, Toby

(2023)

Childism and philosophy: A conceptual co-exploration.

Policy Futures in Education.

ISSN 1478-2103.

DOI: 10.1177/14782103231185178

Biswas, Tanu; Mattheis, Nikolas

(2021)

Strikingly educational: A childist perspective on children’s civil disobedience for climate justice.

Educational Philosophy and Theory.

ISSN 0013-1857.

DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2021.1880390

Biswas, Tanu

(2021)

Letting Teach: Gen Z as Socio-Political Educators in an Overheated World.

Frontiers in Political Science.

ISSN 2673-3145.

DOI: 10.3389/fpos.2021.641609

Biswas, Tanu

(2021)

Who needs sensory education?.

Studies in Philosophy and Education.

ISSN 0039-3746.

DOI: 10.1007/s11217-021-09763-y

Biswas, Tanu

(2021)

Zur Misopädie von Urbanisierung und schulischer Bildung: Eine Würdigung Colin Wards.

s u b \ u r b a n. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung.

ISSN 2197-2567.

Volum 9.

Hefte 3/4.

DOI: 10.36900/suburban.v9i3/4.718

Biswas, Tanu

(2020)

Little Things Matter Much - Childist Ideas for the Pedagogy of Philosophy in an Overheated World.

ISBN 978-3-947186-13-6.

Biswas, Tanu

(2017)

Philosophieren mit Kindern über Grenzen hinweg – eine childistische Perspektive.

Polylog : Forum for Intercultural Philosophy.

ISSN 1560-6325.

Volum 37.

s.89-102.

Biswas, Tanu

(2014)

Technology, Excretion and the Good Life.

European Journal of Sustainable Development.

ISSN 2239-5938.

Volum 3.

Hefte 3.

s.177-188.

Bøker og kapitler

Biswas, Tanu

(2013)

Paradoxes of Conversion - Everyday Lives of Tibetan Buddhist Child Monks in Ladakh.

Formidling

Florio, Eleonora; Biswas, Tanu; Castelli, Illaria; Caso, Letizia

(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.

Biswas, Tanu

(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.

Biswas, Tanu

(2024)

Klage, klage, beklager.

Khrono.

Biswas, Tanu; Wall, John

(2023)

Childist theory in the humanities and social sciences.

Children & society.

ISSN 0951-0605.

DOI: 10.1111/chso.12738

Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Childist notes on positionality and arriving at questions in educational research.

Early Career Collquium on Emprical Educational Research;

2023-04-25.

Biswas, Tanu

(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.

Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Positionality at the intersections of adultism and racism/coloniality.

PhD curated event lecture for the Doctoral College for Intersectionality Studies;

2023-06-15.

Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Soziale Partizipation: Möglichkeiten innerhalb der Begrenzungen.

Keynote for 12. Baustelle Inclusion. Department of Children's Worlds;

2023-06-23.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Undervisningsfilm 1: "Introduksjon. Kritisk Hvithet".

Innspilling av undervisningsfilm;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Undervisningsfilm 2: "Etnisitet og rase. Kritisk Hvithet".

Innspilling av undervisningsfilm;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Undervisningsfilm 3: "Hvite privileger. Kritisk Hvithet".

Innspilling av undervisningsfilm;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Undervisningsfilm 4: "Hvit skjørhet. Kritisk Hvithet".

Innspilling av undervisningsfilm;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Undervisningsfilm 5: "Forglemmelsespedagogikk i Norge. Kritisk Hvithet".

Innspilling av undervisningsfilm;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Undervisningsfilm 6: "Den norske utdanningspolitiske kjeden. Kritisk Hvithet".

Innspilling av undervisningsfilm;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Undervisningsfilm 7: "Kulturelt mangfold og det flerkulturelle i norsk utdanning. Kritisk Hvithet" .

Innspilling av undervisningsfilm;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Educational Video 1: "Introduction. Critical Whiteness".

Record of teaching and learning video;

2023-04-16.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Educational Video 2: "Ethnicity and Race. Critical Whiteness".

Record of teaching and learning video;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Educational Video 3: "White Privilege. Critical Whiteness" .

Record of teaching and learning video;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Educational Video 4: "White Fragility. Critical Whiteness".

Record of teaching and learning video;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Educational Video 5: "Pedagogy of Amnesia in Norway. Critical Whiteness".

Arrangement: Record of teaching and learning video;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Educational Video 6: "The Norwegian Educational Policy Chain. Critical Whiteness".

Record of teaching and learning video;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Fylkesnes, Sandra; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Educational Video 7: "Cultural Diversity and the Multicultural in Norway. Critical Whiteness".

Record of teaching and learning video;

2023-04-16 - 2023-04-19.

Wall, John; Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Childism and Childhood Studies.

Children in Theory;

2023-11-07.

Biswas, Tanu

(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.

Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Positionality: Research Ethics Beyond Legal Correctness.

MA Medborgerskap og Samhandling - Course on Methods ;

2023-10-03.

Biswas, Tanu

(2023)

Review - Feminist Reflections on Childhood: A History and Call to Action by Penny Weiss.

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

ISSN 0887-5367.

s.1-4.

DOI: 10.1017/hyp.2023.52

Biswas, Tanu

(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.

Biswas, Tanu

(2022)

#childism - On the contemporary significance of a seriously playful label.

Global Childhoods Network Meeting;

2022-11-16 - 2022-11-18.

Biswas, Tanu

(2022)

Stavanger er Stedet: Decolonial Childist Notes for Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Workshop Series: Perspectives On Environmental Justice in Scandinavian Green Transitions,;

2022-10-18.

Biswas, Tanu

(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.

Biswas, Tanu

(2022)

Eine dekoloniale Perspektive auf die Kinderrechte.

11. Baustelle Inklusion;

2022-06-27.

Biswas, Tanu

(2021)

Childist Discomfort with Pedagogy - Are We Schooling toward Intergenerational Injustice?.

Speaker Series: Feminist Philosophical Approaches to Oppression and Injustice;

2021-12-07.

Biswas, Tanu

(2021)

Childism and Adultism - Between Theory and Practise.

Children's Rights as Cross Cutting International Field of Study and Action;

2021-03-23.

McNutt, Chris; Biswas, Tanu; Rollo, Toby

(1985)

intersecting coloniality, youth autonomy, and adult supremacy w/ drs. tanu biswas & toby rollo # 136.

Kunstnerisk produksjon

Bilger, Marie Paule; Biswas, Tanu

(2018)

Tanu is dancing.