The Education Assemblage POD

List of contents

Introduction 1. The offence of theory 2. Pedagogy as Friendship 3. Deleuze as a Philosopher of Education: Affective Knowledge/Effective Learning 4. A feel for numbers: affect, data and education policy 5. The logic of data-sense: thinking through Learning Personalisation 6. Deleuze and the girl 7. Deleuze’s children 8. Policy prolepsis in education: Encounters, becomings, and phantasms 9. Ghostings, materialisations and flows in Britain’s special educational needs and disability assemblage 10. Methodology in the fold and the irruption of transgressive data 11. Bon mots for bad thoughts

About the author

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.

Summary

This collection works with the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, applying his conceptual contributions such as affect, assemblage, the logic of sense and control society and modulation to various educational problems. The chapters in this book were originally published as journal articles by Taylor & Francis.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Thompson, Greg (Queensland University of Technolog Thompson
• Assisted by: Greg Thompson (Editor), Greg (Queensland University of Technology Thompson (Editor), Thompson Greg (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138573161
• ISBN: 978-1-138-57316-1
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 253 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / History, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education