Jacques Ranciere: Education, Truth, Emancipation

Charles Bingham is Associate Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is the author of Authority is Relational (SUNY Press, 2008) and Schools of Recognition (Roman and Littlefield, 2001) and co-editor of No Education Without Relation (Peter Lang, 2004). Gert Biesta is Emeritus Professor of Public Education in the Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at the Maynooth University, Ireland, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pedagogy, Religion and Social Studies at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway.

"By showing how the relationship between education and emancipation can be thought of as political, rather than psychological or sociological, Bingham and Biesta put into question many received educational ideas, for example about what 'school improvement' means and what is involved in 'inclusive pedagogy'. The book's argument and experimentations with concepts such as 'police', 'politics' and 'disagreement' vividly portray the relevance of Ranciere's thought for contemporary education practice, policy-making and philosophy." - Caroline Pellatier, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

• 1. On Ignorant Schoolmasters, by Jacques Rancière \ 2. A New Logic of Emancipation \ 3. The Figure of the Child in Rancière and Paulo Freire \ 4. Inclusion in Question \ 5. Recognition's Pedagogy \ 6. Truth and Emancipation \ 7. Learner, Student, Speaker \ 8. Conclusion: The World is Not a School \ Bibliography \ Index.