The Education Assemblage

The Education Assemblage

by Greg Thompson (Editor)

Synopsis

This collection works with the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and his collaborator Felix Guattari, in the context of education. Deleuze once remarked that we get the philosophy we deserve because of the questions that we ask. Deleuze saw that the work of philosophy was the creation of concepts - those working with his theory are admonished not to follow but to think. For Deleuze, education remained a philosophical problem because it is connected to problems of language, authority, meaning and what it means to learn and think. With that in mind, these contributions were chosen because they apply this ethic to education to think again about what constitutes a problem. In this book, Deleuze's conceptual contributions such as affect, assemblage, the logic of sense and control society and modulation are put to work to consider various educational problems in educational settings. What brings these contributions together, apart from working with Deleuze, is that they present education as a problem requiring new concepts. Readers are invited into an encounter with Deleuze's thought because of the situations in which we find ourselves.

The chapters in this book were originally published as journal articles by Taylor and Francis journals.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09 Oct 2018

ISBN 10: 1138573167
ISBN 13: 9781138573161

Author Bio
Greg Thompson is Associate Professor of Education Research at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, educational theory, education policy and the philosophy/sociology of education assessment and measurement, with a particular emphasis on large-scale testing. His recent research projects include reconceptualising test validity; commercialising public education; the topologies of global education policy and assessment, time and education policy and the impending impact of learning analytics/Big Data in schools.