Thinking Education through Alain Badiou

• Represents the first collection of work in education to grapple with what Alain Badiou might mean for the enterprise of schooling
• Takes up Badiou's challenge to contemporary and conventional Anglo-American doxa
• Includes original essays by experts in several different educational fields

Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction: Alain Badiou: ‘Becoming Subject’ to Education (pages 1–7): Kent den Heyer
Chapter 2 Badiou, Pedagogy and the Arts (pages 8–25): Thomas E. Peterson
Chapter 3 Badiou's Challenge to Art and its Education: Or, ‘Art Cannot be Taught—it can However Educate!’ (pages 26–44): Jan Jagodzinski
Chapter 4 Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan and the Ethics of Teaching (pages 45–61): Peter M. Taubman
Chapter 5 Reconceptualizing Professional Development for Curriculum Leadership: Inspired by John Dewey and informed by Alain Badiou (pages 62–77): Kathleen R. Kesson and James G. Henderson
Chapter 6 The Obliteration of Truth by Management: Badiou, St. Paul and the Question of Economic Managerialism in Education (pages 78–98): Anna Strhan
Chapter 7 Militants of Truth, Communities of Equality: Badiou and the Ignorant Schoolmaster (pages 99–110): Charles Andrew Barbour