Douglas Loveless

Douglas J. Loveless is a lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand where he teaches literacy and inquiry into education. He received his Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Previously, he has taught in public dual-language schools, college-readiness programs for at-risk students and supplementary literacy programs for students of all ages. As an elementary teacher, he specialized in science education in Texas public schools as well as in Costa Rica. Using arts-based research methodologies such as visual art, animation, and performance; he explores the complexity of polymodal narratives, critical and situated literacies/pedagogies, and digital literacies.

Publications

Deconstructing the Education-Industrial Complex in the Digital Age
Douglas Loveless, Pamela Sullivan, Katie Dredger, Jim Burns. © 2017. 354 pages.
Developments in the education field are affected by numerous, and often conflicting, social, cultural, and economic factors. With the increasing corporatization of education...