Introduction to Educational Life-Forms

Abstract

Yet,there is sense in this potentially confusing starting point. The most prevalent advantage to deploying Deleuze in education is that one does not become embroiled in futile system building. The notion of a ‘one size fits all’ conceptual framing for education is immediately withdrawn through Deleuze. In the place of theoretical framing, one has to be sensitive to context, able to invent concepts, flexible and creative in one’s use of language, conscious that theory and practice are constructed, and, above all, be responsible for the consequences of one’s writing. Education systems can represent monolithic wills to power on the social plane (see Hayes et al., 2006), and the construction of hegemonic power with its accompanying inflexibility will be challenged through this book, as one becomes aware of a different way to teach and learn through educational change as process.