This book, while not exhaustive, takes the most pertinent aspects of new French thought, and applies them to the philosophy of education. In contemporary philosophies of education, the repetitions of evidence-based and neoliberal theories abound. This book serves as an antidote to the levelling off, and exhaustion in thought, that a capitalist takeover implies, while keeping sight of the crucial relationships between science, the arts and metaphysical speculation. Furthermore, this book represents a thoroughgoing thinking through of philosophy of education’s relationships with neuroscience, new scientific paradigms, feminist materialisms, anti-correlationism, technology and the socius, and as such constitutes a new philosophy of education.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.
David R. Cole is currently the strand leader of globalisation research in the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University, Australia, where he is also an associate professor in Literacies, English and ESL (English as a Second Language).
Joff P.N. Bradley
is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Language Studies at Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently researching how to use film to best promote philosophical thinking in the CLIL/CBI language classroom.