Educational attunement in post-secondary education
Rowena Azada-Palacios (University of Edinburgh and Ateneo de Manila University)

This presentation builds on a co-authored chapter from the forthcoming collection Teaching Ethically in the Global South, edited by Nuraan Davids and Samuel Mendonça, in order to reimagine relationality between teachers and students in post-secondary education. It proposes a concept of educational attunement that draws on notions of subjectivity and relationality found in Philippine philosophy, and brings these ideas into dialogue with ideas from bell hooks and Emmanuel Levinas to consider its ethical limitations.

Rowena Azada-Palacios is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and Assistant Professor of philosophy at Ateneo De Manila University. Her monograph Postcolonial Education and National Identity: An Arendtian Re-imagination (2024, Bloomsbury Academic), based on her PhD completed at UCL, won the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia’s 2025 Book Award. Rowena’s work brings Continental philosophy and critical political thought to bear on questions related to education. She is co-convener of the Philosophy of Education Sans Frontiers group within PESGB and Founding Chair of the Philippine Society of Education and Philosophy.