Education in Flux: Studies on Time, Forms and Reform

This book explores how our understanding of time shapes education,both inside and outside school,and how this understanding has changed over the last decade. It highlights the shift from government to governance in education policy and the emergence of transnational education spaces. The book argues that when education shifts perspectives towards transnational,European or global levels,the past loses relevance and the discontinuity expected from a future deemed open and undetermined becomes an endless resource for the development of new political and educational (re)forms. The contributions to this book aim to answer questions about how education and time are related,and to open avenues to think education and time anew.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 110 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book aims to delve into the intricate relationship between our understanding of time and the shaping of education, both within and outside the school walls. Over the past decades, education and policymaking have undergone a profound transformation, transcending the historical boundaries of the modern nation-state where their contemporary form originated. The often-discussed shift from government to governance in education policy, coupled with the emergence of newly established spaces of transnational education, serve as illustrative examples of this transformative shift. The national grammar of schooling, which arranges time in class hours, schooldays, and yearly cohorts, establishes the lessons that the past should impart to future generations. However, when education takes a transnational, European, or even global perspective, the relevance of this past as a continuous and traditional narrative begins to wane. Instead, education and policymaking embrace the discontinuity that is expected to arise from a future deemed open and undetermined, viewing it as a valuable resource for the development of new political and educational (re)forms.

In exploring these questions, the contributions to this book seek to provide fresh insights and provoke thought on the complex interplay between education and time. By examining the contingency of time-making in educational practices, the chapters herein aim to answer these inquiries and thus open avenues for reimagining education and time in innovative and meaningful ways.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal "Educational Philosophy and Theory."

Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032021072