The Deschooled citizen: Educating the Citizen of Empire

• In Event: Roundtable Session 84
  In Roundtable Session: Not Knowing and the Politics of Powerlessness in Empire

Abstract

In this article we conceptualize an education that would be consonant with a contemporary notion of global citizenship, that we call a Citizen of Empire. Drawing from the work of Hardt and Negri in their book Empire, we argue that global society is a virtual space manufactured through the biopolitical generativity of the people on a global scale. An education that is consonant with this kind of citizenship would be consistent with Ivan Illich’s proposal for a deschooled society. A deschooled education foregrounds poesis over praxis as it links people together through globally articulated learning webs.

Authors

• Michael T. Hayes, Washington State University

• Melissa Saul, University of Idaho