Multiplicities of Multiplicities: Exploring Deleuze and Guattari Across Educational Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together five scholars who have jointly read Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) A Thousand Plateaus to de-territorialize dominant educational discourses within their own scholarly pursuits. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari’s notions of faciality, Body without Organs, planes of organization, and becoming, this session challenges normalizing Western discourse of the educative experience. As becoming-scholars, becoming-researchers, becoming-teacher educators, this session resists imposed scientific discourses, liberating notions of the child, the novice teacher, charter schools, postsecondary students, identity, the subject, and the human. Resultantly, educational research is imagined from more-than ontological perspectives. This symposium would interest curriculum theorists, teacher educators, postsecondary scholars, school leaders, and educational philosophers.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies

Chair

• Petra Munro Hendry, Louisiana State University

Papers

• The "Face" of Induction: Deleuzian Perspectives on Becoming the Novice Teacher - Maria Ferris Greene Wallace, Louisiana State University

• From Arborescence to Rhizome: West (Finally) Meets East at the Intersection of the Buddhist and Deleuzian Subject - David Wayne Robinson-Morris, Louisiana State University

• Should (Postsecondary) Education Seek Desubjectification? - Paul William Eaton, Sam Houston State University

• Reconceptualizing Child and Childhood in Education: A Deleuzian Perspective - Shaofei Han, Louisiana State University

• A Charter School as a Body Without Organs - Gareth Mitchell, Louisiana State University

Discussant

• Alecia Youngblood Jackson, Appalachian State University