A Deleuzian Approach to Curriculum: Essays on a Pedagogical Life

This work examines the impoverished image of life presupposed by the legacy of transcendent and representational thinking that continues to frame the limits of curricular thought. Analyzing the ways in which modern institutions colonize desire and overdetermine the life of its subject, this book draws upon the anti-Oedipal philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, revolutionary artistic practice, and an unorthodox curriculum genealogy to rethink the pedagogical project as a task of concept creation for the liberation of life and instantiation of a people yet to come. This book invites academics, artists, and graduate students to engage the contemporary struggles of curriculum theory, educational philosophy, and pedagogical practice with a new set of conceptual tools for thinking radical difference.

Author: J. Wallin
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/19/2011
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230104006

About the Author
JASON WALLIN Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies in Youth and Media Education at the University of Alberta, Canada.