CONTACT Nesta Devine nesta.devine@aut.ac.nz © 2021 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia ACCESS: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATION 2021, VOL. 41, NO. 1, 52–59 https://doi.org/10.46786/ac21.2779 Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Nesta Devine Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand After Jim’s funeral one of my PhD students wrote to me: Nga mihi aroha kia koe, Ki te Whanau o matua James, nga mihi arohanui kia ratou hoki. Ki a koe e te Rangatira, e matua James, okioki tonu koe i roto i te ringa o te Matua nui I te rangi, moe mai, moe mai, moe mai ra. Another wrote: Condolences Nesta I thought about your supervisor too and his legacies, I’m truly blessed to be part of his legacies as a grandchild of his work. Inspirational big time! Suzanne Weber described Jim as our ‘DoctorVater’; the ancestor of a continuing inheritance of scholars and students, not just in Auckland, or Aotearoa New Zealand, but abroad too, wherever his students and his students’ students work – in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Pacific, China, Taiwan, Bhutan, and undoubtedly other places. Jim and his colleague Colin Lankshear founded ACCESS in the 1980s. It was initially a vehicle for members of the School of Education at the University of Auckland, both staff and students. The journal has had several editors over the years: including Michael Peters, Susan Robertson, Elizabeth Grierson, and Nina Hood. It has had several different forms of presentation - most recently finding new life when it was re-established by Tina Besley as part of PESA Agora. But it has always carried with it the dual imperative to scholarly acuity and social justice that it took on under Jim Marshall’s initial guidance. It spread beyond its early character of an almost in-house journal, acquiring an international character. We try to maintain its early character as a critical, intellectually rigorous vehicle for exploration of the social sciences, with a focus – but not an exclusive focus – on education. I saw Jim fairly regularly in his retirement home as my mother was there too. It is widely known that he had dementia, but he never lost his personality. Always busy, always courteous, and always somehow able to make friends. I was immensely touched that he appeared to recognise me. Jim’s contribution to philosophy of education is quite widespread. He will be remembered for his works on punishment, for introducing Foucault to New Zealanders, for his interest in Māori educational issues. But I would like to draw attention to a prescient interest in the very nature of IN MEMORIAM Jim Marshall