1st Edition

A Poetics of Education Edupoetics and Pathways Towards New Educational Collectivities

By John I’Anson, Alison Jasper Copyright 2025
284 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

284 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.

Biography

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.