Poetics of Education - Edupoetics and Pathways Towards New Educational Collectivities

The book articulates an alternative educational imaginary - an edupoetics - that gestures towards collectivities gathered around matters of intense concern. It will be relevant to scholars in the humanities and social sciences interested in educational theory and the philosophy of education.

List of contents

List of Figures; Preface; Part I : Introduction: re-figuring education: towards an edupoetics - Chapter 1 Questioning education: aporia, im/possibility, and edupoetics; Chapter 2 Beyond instrumentality: mapping the field; Chapter 3 Edupoetics: towards an existential poetics and cosmopolitanism; Part II: Introduction: towards an edupoetics: scenes, tropes and heuristics - Chapter 4 Chiasmic crossings; Chapter 5 Higher education and the ten bureaucracies of hell; Chapter 6 The Conference of the Birds: educating in / of / beyond desire; Chapter 7 Everyone's Invited: precarity / ethics / justice; Chapter 8 On variation: edupoetics and the im/possible gift of neurodiversity; Chapter 9 A grammar of educational research: edupoetics, ecology, and inventiveness; Part III: Introduction: edupoetics as collectivity - Chapter 10 An educational image of thought: edupoetics as collectivity; Copyright acknowledgements; Index.

About the author

John I'Anson is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Stirling, UK.
Alison Jasper is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling, UK.

Summary

The book articulates an alternative educational imaginary – an edupoetics – that gestures towards collectivities gathered around matters of intense concern. It will be relevant to scholars in the humanities and social sciences interested in educational theory and the philosophy of education.

Product details

• Authors: John I’Anson, John Jasper Ianson, Alison Jasper
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032259789
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3225978-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Philosophy & theory of education, Social and cultural anthropology, Philosophy and theory of education, Education, Edupoetics,