Invisible Education

Jocey Quinn is Professor of Lifelong Learning at Plymouth Institute of Education, University of Plymouth, UK. Her research is transdisciplinary and focuses on marginalised adults and their learning. She has published widely and led many international and national research projects. She has been working with posthuman ideas for the past ten years and is a joint co-ordinator of the Adventures in Posthumanism International Network.

“This is an utterly compelling book that left me mesmerised by its poetic tone, that I have only felt when reading literature. Combined with a fresh and original conceptual rigour, the central notion of the book, ‘invisible education’ unfolds effortlessly through the author’s elegant deployment of what she configures as ‘the epistemology of the ineffable’. Drawing on a critical post-humanist perspective that highlights our immanent relationality with the world, the book thus joins the ‘invisible chain’ of real people, fictional characters, ineffable discourses, as well as aesthetic objects of the everyday that keep educating us invisibly and yet deeply and forcefully, without imposing any restrictions within the unbearable heaviness of formal education.”Maria Tamboukou, Professor of Feminist Studies and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow, University of East London, UK"This book offers much more than theoretical ideas to play with; the stories from Quinn's research that comprise the body of the text, her 'data acts', are sticky and powerful"Karen Gravet, University of Surrey, British Journal of Sociology of Education:"Quinn offers research and first-hand lived examples in this book to create a successfully relatable and engaging read that breaks away from the traditional conventions of the field."Verity Downing, The Open University, Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning

• Foreword Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Invisible Education 2. Social Mobility and Future Mutabilities 3. Invisible Others: Land, Animals, Machines and Things 4. Invisible Knowledges: Activism, Volunteering and Work 5. Invisible Beings: Postverbal People and the Invisible Education of Care 6. Invisible Communities: The Contributions of Invisible Education 7. Index