THE POLITICS OF VOICE AND EDUCATION

Eve Mayes' book explores the concept of voice in education, highlighting its evolution as a policy priority and the complexities involved in its implementation. It engages with philosophical debates and offers examples of transversal experiments in the politics of education. The book critiques dominant logics of student voice and advocates for alternative pedagogical relations.

Format: Hardback
Publication date: 31 August 2021
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Maps the evolution and metamorphosis of the concept of voice in education, highlighting its rise as a prominent policy priority in educational reform.

Explores the complexities and ambivalences of student voice in educational reform, shedding light on its conflicting interpretations and implications.

Provides an in-depth account of the ontology, ethics, and politics of voice in education, drawing from philosophical debates and contemporary scholarship.

Converses the perspectives of students and educators, bringing their accounts of voice into dialogue with historical and contemporary philosophical debates.

Offers examples of transversal experiments in the politics of education, showcasing innovative practices and initiatives that challenge traditional power structures.

Engages with the voices of students and educators, as well as the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, to explore the potential and limitations of voice in education.

Through extensive ethnographic and participatory research in Australian schools, Eve Mayes crafts a comprehensive account of what voice can and must do in education. The book delves into the textures, tremors, and murmurs of voice experienced across ten years of research, encompassing encounters with students and puppets, school governance council meetings, school reform evaluation processes, and students' political activism. It offers a timely critique of the liberal humanist and late capitalist logics of student voice in educational reform, while simultaneously affirming the existence of other possibilities for transversal pedagogical relations in and beyond institutional sites of education.

ISBN-13: 9781474451208