Utopian spaces and the promise of education: a conceptual analysis

Argenton, Gerald

doi:10.4324/9781003025849-3

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“…In my analysis, I use a selection of significant policy texts published since 2010 which I have found to feature topological reflexivity in envisioning future learning environments in comprehensive schools. The texts analysed here reiterate a widely shared future-oriented governmental configuration in educational policy discourse, envisioning a harmonious, ideal future brought about through sweeping reforms in learning environments and technology (Argenton, 2019). They are written and published by a host of both public and private organisations, with varying levels of involvement in education.…”

Section: Finnish Discourses Of Future Learningmentioning

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Topologies of desire: Fantasies and their symptoms in educational policy futures

Saari

2021

European Educational Research Journal

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This article studies topological reflexivity in educational policy discourse, when policy is considered in terms of eradicating the distances involved and increasing mobility and commensurability. Topological reflexivity is critically evaluated from a Lacanian point of view as a form of political fantasy which structures reality within the coordinates of desire. The article also unpacks two prominent symptoms of fantasy – dislocation and paradoxical elements – that subvert the functioning of these very same fantasies. First, while heralding imminent fulfilment and the promise of pleasure in new learning environments, these discourses are also obliged to keep the object of desire at a certain distance. Second, while educational policy discourse is founded on subjective autonomy and a freedom to develop learning environments, it implicitly requires teachers and schools to implement new learning environments and to take pleasure in doing so. Attempts to grapple with these symptoms of fantasy take the form of denying not only the repetition inherent in such discourses, but also the othering of teachers who express resistance to such changes.

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Section: Finnish Discourses Of Future Learningmentioning

confidence: 97%

Topologies of desire: Fantasies and their symptoms in educational policy futures

Saari

2021

European Educational Research Journal

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Utopian spaces and the promise of education: a conceptual analysis

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Topologies of desire: Fantasies and their symptoms in educational policy futures

Topologies of desire: Fantasies and their symptoms in educational policy futures

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