Rate My Professor Olivera Kamenarac

Her research specializes in the sociology of education, philosophy of education, education policy, teacher education, and early childhood education, with a critical focus on neoliberalism's impacts, teacher agency, professional identities, ethics, and education as a public good. Key publications include 'Resistant curiosity: an ethical praxis of transforming neoliberal self and becoming an early childhood educator otherwise' (Ethics and Education, 2025); 'Why shouldn't teacher education produce "ready-to-teach" graduates?' (2024); 'Reconfiguring teacher agency within market-driven early childhood spaces' (2023); 'The policy-research-practice triangle in New Zealand early childhood education: Complexities, impossibilities and silences' (2023); 'Business managers in children\'s playground: Exploring a problematic (or not!) identity construction of early childhood teachers' (Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2023); 'Discourses Shaping Primary School Leaders\' Approaches to Enacting Social Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand' (International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions, 2023); 'Transnational conversations about teacher identities in early childhood education' (Policy Futures in Education, 2021); and 'Infantologies: An EPAT collective writing project' (2019). She co-edited 'The Geopolitics of Postdigital Educational Development' (Postdigital Science and Education, 2025) and contributed chapters to 'Postdigital Education for Development' (2025) and 'A Geopolitics of Postdigital Education: Foundations and Future Research' (2025). Kamenarac participates in early years research labs, supervises PhD students, and delivers conference presentations on teacher identities and educational discourses.