Alternatives to Education? Impotentiality and the Accident: New Bearings in the Ontology of the Present

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Can we really think of alternatives to the hegemonic form and idea of education? There has been, increasingly, through modernity and beyond, a weaving together of the way of life and education in thought and in practice. Education has insinuated itself as ontotheological principle of our time. Its values, its order, its hierarchies, its aspirations, its institutions define the very fabric of collective life, “from China to Peru” as Dr Johnson might have it. Education is privileged by conservatives, liberals and radicals alike as the key to well-being, reform and even salvation.

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Asylum Seeker Political Space Learning Society Modern School Symbolic Violence 
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  1. 1.School of EducationBirmingham UniversityBirminghamUK

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