Mark Curcher
About me
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)
Fields of expertise
Curriculum Theory and Design, Higher Education Pedagogy, Education Fiction, Liquid Curriculum, Relational Pedagogy, Critical Studies of Educational Technology, Generative AI in Education, Critical Pedagogy, Educational Leadership.
Alternate description
Educator immersed in the rhizome. Bibliophile. Wondering and writing about education and AI and what that relation reveals about both. Still punk!
Project links
Research topics
Generative AI in education, and what its arrival reveals about assumptions already embedded in teaching, learning and the university.
New models of curriculum and pedagogy for conditions of liquid modernity, grounded in a relational and process ontology.
Education fiction and speculative writing as forms of critique and foresight.
Education as a relational, situated and emergent practice, and what that means for pedagogy and leadership.
Selected publications
[See ORCID for full details.]
Selected recent publications.
Curcher, M. 2026. Writing the Pseudo Uni: Speculative Fiction as Catharsis, Critique, and (Accidental) Foresight. In: Hrastinski, S. (ed.) Education Fiction: Reimagining Teaching and Learning. New York: Routledge.
Curcher, M. 2026. "I'm Sorry Dave, I Can't Do That": So, What Can AI Actually Do for Learning? TCC Worldwide Online Conference.
Curcher, M. 2024. Resonating with a Liquid Curriculum: The Case for a Fluid Education. TAMK tulevaisuuden tekijänä – TAMK-konferenssi 2024.
Mena-Lucía, I. & Curcher, M. 2024. Exploring the Impact of Chatbots on Learning Experiences: A Study of Spanish University Students. TCC Worldwide Online Conference.
Curcher, M. & Briggs, J. 2023. "Now we're COOC'ing": The Design and Implementation of a Collaborative Open Online Course (COOC) in Educational Leadership. TCC Worldwide Online Conference.
Curcher, M. 2022. The Pseudo Uni. Postdigital Science and Education.
Curcher, M. 2021. Let's Get Critical: The Importance of a Critical and Reflective Approach to Digital Technology Adoption. TCC Worldwide Online Conference.
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.
Rasi, M., Jantunen, A., Curcher, M. & Teräs, H. 2018. Unexpected Insights: A Collaborative Autoethnography of the Experiences of International Students on an Authentic E-Learning Distance Educational Leadership Program. AACE, Amsterdam, Netherlands.