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This book asks a deceptively simple question: What is education for? Drawing on curriculum theory, history and social studies research, education philosophy, Indigenous scholarship, and futures studies, it argues that schooling too often socializes students into inherited ways of knowing while neglecting education’s deeper democratic purpose: enabling youth to make judgments about their nation-state and cultural inheritances and to distinguish between their probable and preferable futures. Engaging with timely debates in education, such as the emergence of AI, the author makes the case for a pedagogical approach centred on the use of ‘throughline questions,’ which ask students to connect subject matter to future thinking and critically examine their own role in shaping social worlds. Through innovative concepts such as KINships (knowledge–ignorance–privilege relations), curriculum as encounter, and becoming ‘story smart,’ the book outlines a path beyond both standardized schooling and decontextualized “best practices” toward learning organized around ethical inquiry, Treaty relationships, and preferable collective futures.Recommended reading for educators and researchers with interests in democratic education, curriculum design, and educational philosophy and civic education.

Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou represents the first collection to explore the educational implications of French philosopher Alain Badiou's challenge to contemporary philosophical orthodoxy put forth in his 1993 work, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. Represents the first collection of work in education to grapple with what Alain Badiou might mean for the enterprise of schoolingTakes up Badiou's challenge to contemporary and conventional Anglo-American doxaIncludes original essays by experts in several different educational fields

Thinking Education Through Alain Badiou represents the first collection to explore the educational implications of French philosopher Alain Badiou''s challenge to contemporary philosophical orthodoxy put forth in his 1993 work, Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil. Represents the first collection of work in education to grapple with what Alain Badiou might mean for the enterprise of schooling Takes up Badiou''s challenge to contemporary and conventional Anglo-American doxa Includes original essays by experts in several different educational fields