This book re-centres the practice and discipline of ethics as the core aspect of education.

Jesse Bazzul is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina.

"This is a wonderfully inventive volume, seriously playful in its invitation to plumb the depths of the existential, climatic, and political realities facing education today. Fiercely ethical in its stance, the book gives full rein to the centrality of relational ethics in education and does not shy away from asking difficult questions that compel us as educators to face our complicity within ‘business as usual’ colonial frameworks. Offering innovative responses to real-world issues, it is a valuable resource in challenging simplistic one-world thinking. There is an ebullient energy and passion to Bazzul’s writing informed by his deep respect for Indigenous knowledges, posthumanism, Foucault, and Deleuze. It is truly powerful, creative, and accessible – a text I soon look forward to reading with my students and colleagues!"

Alexander Means, Chair and Associate Professor of Educational Foundations, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa:

"Bazzul has written an elegant work of rare erudition and care, a philosophy and ethics of education that locates teaching as a vital practice for living differently together in the Anthropocene. It is a necessary book for educators seeking a language and concepts that radically open the pedagogical imagination against its closure in our catastrophic era."

Catherine Milne, Professor of Science Education, New York University:

"In his expansive, inclusive, and heartfelt book, An Intense Calling, Jesse Bazzul takes us along on his journey in ethics that also explores the intellectual and practical journey of ethics in education over the past twenty years and into the future, from caring to response-ability. Bazzul invites the reader to experience education in which human exceptionalism is debunked and imagine a future in which all life, including human, and matter are entangled. Bazzul provides insights that support teachers to enact their educational and ethical responsibility to problematize the unproblematized in education and in life. An engaging and thought-provoking journey indeed!"