{"product_id":"interrogating-neoliberalism-and-cruel-optimism-in-education","title":"Interrogating Neoliberalism and Cruel Optimism in Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is a philosophical examination of the ways in which neoliberalism underpins and impedes public education. It proposes that education’s adoption of neoliberal logic generates a sense of despair amongst educators, who often enter the profession with the hope of building a better, more just world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the author’s 27 years of experience as a secondary classroom teacher and engaging with a range of theoretical concepts, cultural objects, and scenes of violence from her time in the classroom, \u003cem\u003eThe Radical Potency of Despair\u003c\/em\u003e renders visible the ongoing harms that neoliberal logic creates for education and educators. The author proposes a new “ruptured fantasy of education” and suggests that it is not \u003cem\u003ehope\u003c\/em\u003e that ignites educators who keep fighting for education, but rather despair. Despair is conceived of as a generative force, provoking educators to hold time and space open for pedagogical encounters that interrupt the ongoing instrumentalization of education. The author further conceptualizes a notion of thinking \u003cem\u003ewith\u003c\/em\u003e images as a pedagogical interruptive force. Thinking \u003cem\u003ewith\u003c\/em\u003e images, she argues, gives students time and space to attend to what they see, thus affording them the chance to think \u003cem\u003edifferently\u003c\/em\u003e about the violence of modern society. Such pedagogical interruptions are presented as a refusal of the normative order of education, countering present infrastructures that aim to constrain and instrumentalize education.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compelling and original volume, it will appeal to scholars, researchers, and upper-level students with interests in neoliberalism and education, the philosophy of education, critical pedagogy, and educational policy and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238248042840,"sku":"9781032933689","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032933689.jpg?v=1779173142","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/interrogating-neoliberalism-and-cruel-optimism-in-education","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}