Introduction 1. The offence of theory 2. Pedagogy as Friendship 3. Deleuze as a Philosopher of Education: Affective Knowledge/Effective Learning 4. A feel for numbers: affect, data and education policy 5. The logic of data-sense: thinking through Learning Personalisation 6. Deleuze and the girl 7. Deleuze’s children 8. Policy prolepsis in education: Encounters, becomings, and phantasms 9. Ghostings, materialisations and flows in Britain’s special educational needs and disability assemblage 10. Methodology in the fold and the irruption of transgressive data 11. Bon mots for bad thoughts
Biography
Greg Thompson is Associate Professor of Education Research at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. His research focuses on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, educational theory, education policy and the philosophy/sociology of education assessment and measurement, with a particular emphasis on large-scale testing. His recent research projects include reconceptualising test validity; commercialising public education; the topologies of global education policy and assessment, time and education policy and the impending impact of learning analytics/Big Data in schools.
