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Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy has an enormous potential for educational theory, pedagogical practice, and educational research methods and policy. The questions asked by Deleuze (and Deleuze & Guattari in their combined works) address important areas for education such as human subjectivity, experience, logic, language, ethics, creativity, and desire. Deleuze’s philosophy is pragmatic and has a surprising affinity with Dewey’s educational philosophy with its attention to problematic situations and learning from experience. Deleuze’s is the pedagogy of concepts: practical, experimental pedagogy oriented to focusing on problems that defy univocal solutions but represent experimentation with the world and ourselves leading to the creation of new meanings and values. Deleuze’s philosophy defies static “being” in lieu of dynamic “becoming” made possible by relations and...
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Semetsky, I. (2017). Deleuze’s Philosophy for Education. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_65
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