ERIC Number: EJ1402001
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0268-0939
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Beyond School. The Challenge of Co-Producing and Commoning a Different Episteme for Education
Collet-Sabé, Jordi; Ball, Stephen J.
Journal of Education Policy, v38 n6 p895-910 2023
This paper develops previous work in which we deployed a form of Foucauldian critique to clear a space in which it might be possible to think education differently. Here, in that space, we are hoping to 'get lost' in some unexplored spaces of possibility. We sketch some starting points, some 'lines of flight' for such thinking. To do this, we identify a concatenation of three crises and discuss briefly their inter-relationship. But the paper focuses primarily on education. The first of these crises, COVID, offers a moment, a space, in which we might think of ourselves, others, and the world differently. The second, climate, brings to bear a pressing urgency for change in the way that we think of our relation to the world in practical, political and epistemological ways. The third, education in relation to crises, is an opening within which some thinking might be undertaken about what it means to be educated, and in which the relation between education, community and sustainability, in a variety of senses, might be pursued. In the final sections, using concepts from Foucault, Olssen, Lewis and others, we seek to find inspiration from and an accommodation between Foucault's "self-formation" and "commoning" -- a practice of collaborating and sharing to meet every day needs and achieve the well-being of individuals, communities, and environments -- as a new way to think education beyond modern episteme.
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, COVID-19, Pandemics, Climate, Epistemology, School Community Relationship, Sustainability
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