Mark Curcher

Senior Lecturer, Business and Media

Creator and Co-Designer of the MBA in Educational Leadership (MEL)

Former Program Director of the MBA in Educational Leadership (MEL)

Intersection of Technology and Education, Distributed Knowledge, Digitalization, Liquid Curriculum, Datafication, Critcal Realism, Punk Pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy.

Bibliophile, Curmudgeon, Flâneur, Pedagogical Provocateur, Educational Emigre, Scholarly Skeptic, Critical Contrarian, Disillusioned Dreamer, Pragmatic Pessimist. Immersed in the Rhizome, Punk AF!

Digitalisation and its impacts on education, culture and society.  

New models of pedagogy and curriculum that reflect the impacts of liquid modernity and are based on an ontological foundation of critical realism.

See ORCID for full details.

Selected recent publications.

Curcher, M. 2022. The Pseudo Uni. Postdigital Science and Education. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-022-00384-3. Accessed: 14 December 2022.

Curcher, M. 2021. Let’s Get Critical: The Importance of a Critical and Reflective Approach to Digital Technology Adoption. Hawaii. URL: https://2021.tcconlineconference.org/21066-2/.

Curcher, M. & Briggs, J. 2023. "Now we’re COOC’ing”: The Design and Implementation of a Collaborative Open Online Course (COOC) in Educational Leadership. University of Hawaii. Hawaii. URL: https://tccpapers.coe.hawaii.edu/archive/2023/Curcher.pdf.

Rasi, M., Jantunen, A., Curcher, M. & Teras, H. 2018. Unexpected Insights: A Collaborative Autoethnography of the Experiences of International Students on an Authentic E-Learning Distance Educational Leadership Program. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Amsterdam, Netherlands. URL: https://www.learntechlib.org/p/184443.

Teräs, M., Suoranta, J., Teräs, H. & Curcher, M. 2020. Post-Covid-19 Education and Education Technology ‘Solutionism’: a Seller’s Market. Postdigital Science and Education. URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00164-x. Accessed: 20 July 2020.