Policy, Geophilosophy and Education

Education policy is premised on its instrumentalist approach. This instrumentalism is based on narrow assumptions concerning people (the subject), decision-making (power), problem-solving (science and methodology), and knowledge (epistemology). Policy, Ge

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Policy, Geophilosophy and Education

P. Taylor Webb University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and Kalervo N. Gulson University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

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Acknowledgementsix Introduction: Notes on the Writing Experiment

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Part 1: Emergence Chapter 1: Policy Scientificity 3.0: Theory and Policy Analysis in-and-for This World and Other-Worlds Policy Scientificities in Education Policy Scientificity 1.0 Policy Scientificity 2.0 Policy Scientificity 3.0 Policy Mutations

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Chapter 2: Education Policy Geophilosophy: Theory and Policy Analysis for Emergent Worlds

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Critical Parochialisms, or “Where Did My Ontology Go?” The Spatialities of Education Policy (Analyses) Unpredictable ‘Agency’: Emergence and Affect What It Does (and Doesn’t Do)…

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Chapter 3: Policy Problematization

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No Solution; No Problem: Policy Logics in Education 35 Policy37 Problematization38 Problematization: Contradictions, Recursions, and Events 39 Policy Problematizers 44 The Insufficiencies of Knowledge in Educational Research 47 Part 2: Intermezzo Chapter 4: Policy Prolepsis: Phantasmic Encounters in Becoming-Policy The Incompleteness of Policy Policy Prolepsis The Politics of Affective Space: Phantasmic Positionings

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The Politics of Absences and Presences: Policy Prolepsis in Time Policy Prolepsis and Enacting Subjects Chapter 5: Policy Intensions and the Folds of the Self Critiquing and (Re)conceptualizing Policy Implementation History of ‘Policy Implementation’ Immanent Space and Emergent Geographies The Immanent Space of Education Policy Policy Intensions and the Geographies of the Self Policy Cartographies and the Geographies of the Self Chapter 6: The Neo-Liberal Policies of Epimeleia Heautou Caring for the Self in Education Markets: Mapping Biopolitical Catallaxies in Education Policy with Viviana Pitton Neo-liberalism and Governmentality Human Capital as Voluntary Formations of the Self The Aporias of Neo-Liberal Equality in Education

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Part 3: Connections Chapter 7: Ambient Fear, Islamic Schools and the Affective Geographies of Race and Religion: “We Had to Hide That We’re Muslim All the Ti