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This chapter addresses the future form of pedagogy and explores a related educational theory. The chapter, first, reflects on exopedagogy as a form of post-humanist education. Second, the chapter positions exopedagogy in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s philosophical thought and his pedagogy of the concept. Education as informed by Deleuze-Guattari’s transformational pragmatics is “located” in experience, in culture, and in life. As grounded in praxis, education necessarily includes an ethical dimension. Such cultural pedagogy is oriented to the “becomings” of human subjects and has an affective, erotic aspect. The feminine qualities of care and love associated with the concept of Eros should not only form the basis of education for the future but can make this rather utopian future our present ethos in accord with the educational policy agenda of the twenty-first century. Future educational leaders as “people to come” are themselves produced via the creative forms of experiential becomings, including “becoming-woman.” In conclusion, the chapter asserts that people to come in education should be able to use imagination to cross the limits of the present and tap into the future.
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Semetsky, I. (2020). Exploring the Future Form of Pedagogy. In: Trifonas, P. (eds) Handbook of Theory and Research in Cultural Studies and Education. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56988-8_7
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