Full Description
This collection examines education in the light of a politics of becoming. It takes a non-hierarchical transdisciplinary approach, challenging the macropolitics of pre-established governmental and economic agendas for education. Drawing on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, the contributors consider questions such as how education might engage a politics of becoming, and how education and becoming function in a society of control. Since Deleuze and Guattari contend that a society is defined by its becomings, its transformations, this collection asks how education, itself a process in becoming, may contribute "collective creations" to a society in continual flux.
The chapters bring theory and praxis together, deploying power, affect, cartography, space, relationality, assemblage and multiple literacies in order to experiment with music, art, language, teacher education, curriculum and policy studies. This collection is an innovative resource, creating an encounter with the macropolitics of education, and altering teaching, learning, evaluation and curriculum.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
Contents
1. Introduction: Education and the politics of becoming David R. Cole and Diana Masny 2. Travelling and sticky affects: Exploring teens and sexualized cyberbullying through a Butlerian-Deleuzian-Guattarian lens Jette Kofoed and Jessica Ringrose 3. Becoming-teacher: Encounters with the Other in teacher education Stephen Marble 4. Latino families becoming-literate in Australia: Deleuze, literacy and the politics of immigration David R. Cole 5. Living, learning, loving: Constructing a new ethics of integration in education Inna Semetsky 6. 'It's all about relationships': Hesitation, friendship and pedagogical assemblage Sam Seller 7. Uprooting music education pedagogies and curricula: Becoming-musician and the Deleuzian refrain Elizabeth Gould 8. Policy prolepsis in education: Encounters, becomings, and phantasms P. Taylor Webb and Kalervo N. Gulson 9. Grotesque gestures or sensuous signs? Rethinking notions of apprenticeship in early childhood education Linda Knight 10. Multiple Literacies Theory: Discourse, sensation, resonance and becoming Diana Masny 11. 'We don't believe media anymore': Mapping critical literacies in an adult immigrant language classroom Monica Waterhouse 12. Bon mots for bad thoughts Jason J. Wallin
