A Poetics of Education: Edupoetics and Pathways Towards New Educational Collectivities

At a time when education is routinely - and problematically - translated into the discourse of learning and teaching to serve a series of instrumental imperatives, the question of what we mean by education is raised with renewed urgency.This book looks beyond present horizons to imagine education anew.It considers ways of theorising education that acknowledge the complexity of its genealogy, empirical practice, and imbrication within regimes of governance, in the light of education’s orientation to both the already actualised and the new and unprecedented.A specifically educational milieu is characterised by the kinds of existential movements and negotiations to which this gives rise, together with a language and grammar for their articulation, that points to their urgency and significance. A poetics of education - an edupoetics - is thus a considered response to this exigency.Through engaging a variety of felicitous tropes - that include the sea and its navigation (Serres), opacity (G