Preliminary Material / Tomasz Szkudlarek -- Introduction: Education and the Political / Tomasz Szkudlarek -- Are Duties of Justice in Education Global in Scope? / Zdenko Kodelja -- Education for Resistance, Education for Consensus? / Leszek Koczanowicz -- Grammars of Privatization, Schooling, and the “Network State” / André Elias Mazawi -- Identity and Normativity: Politics and Education / Tomasz Szkudlarek -- Time Out: Can Education Do and Be Done Without Time? / Gert Biesta -- The Double Subjectification Function of Education / Claudia Ruitenberg -- The Politics of the University / Jan Masschelein and Maarten Simons -- Toward the Ignorant Gdańsk Citizen / Maria Mendel -- Stop Making Sense! / Carl Anders Säfström.

The essays in this collection address the relation between education and politics in new ways. Rather than understanding education simply as the object of political decision-making, or as preparation for politics, the authors of this volume see education as implicated in social conflicts and in the political processes that produce and change social structures. Education, then, is a practice that reconfigures the relations between subjectivities and the political. The collection focuses on several critical cases and theoretical debates where the relation between education and politics demands new articulations. It explores the potential of theoretical languages proposed by Rancière, Laclau, Derrida, Mouffe, Bakhtin, and other thinkers whose work has not yet been fully recognized in its pedagogical meaning.

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