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Sketching a Place for Education in Times of Learning

  • Addresses the question of education by combining a critique with an imaginative approach?
  • Discusses highly topical issues demonstrating an integrative understanding of the discourse of learning and its impacts on various spheres of life
  • Employs an experimental format that reflects a different way of thinking about current challenges for education in a time dominated by the learning discourse
  • Presents original studies on the philosophy of education and educational theory that combine conceptual work with analyses or descriptions of specific practices in education

Part of the book series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education (COPT, volume 10)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Introduction: De-framing the Sketches

    • Laboratory for Education and Society, KU Leuven
    Pages 1-8
  3. Education or Learning?

    • Laboratory for Education and Society, KU Leuven
    Pages 9-32
  4. Educational Gatherings

    • Laboratory for Education and Society, KU Leuven
    Pages 33-53
  5. Educational Spaces and Places

    • Laboratory for Education and Society, KU Leuven
    Pages 55-75
  6. Educational Tools

    • Laboratory for Education and Society, KU Leuven
    Pages 77-104
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 105-111

About this book

This book explores how traditional institutions of education are affected by the current discourse and practices of ‘learning’; and more specifically, how the evolution towards so-called ‘learning environments’ affects the kind of gathering or association that is staged and configured within families, schools and universities. In addition, it addresses the question of how to articulate what is educational in the context of ‘making’ family, school or university, and to what extent this making is always also a public act. The aim is to approach and investigate family, school and university as educational practices, to focus on the forms of gatherings or associations that take shape within them, and to explore the public, but also possible ‘privatizing’ character of these aspects.

The book presents a diverse range of sketches intended as preparatory study exercises. What they all share, despite the different hands and eyes, and the different sensitivities, is the attemptto figure out what education is all about. Three objectives can be distinguished for the sketches: a cartographic one (to map the discourse of learning but also the discursive and material arrangements of actual educational practices), a morphological one (to describe the educational forms of gathering) and a theoretical one (to bring educational issues into the discussion). The book’s overall aims are to re-establish ‘the educational’ as an issue; to make it visible, to give it shape, to give it a voice, and to make it a thing that can and should be discussed, thus establishing a point of departure for further inquiry and its (re)invention.

Authors and Affiliations

  • KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Laboratory for Education and Society

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