The Politics of Voice in Education - (Pedagogies: Deleuze and Education Research) by Eve Mayes (Paperback)

About the Book

Engaging with the voices of students and educators and the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Eve Mayes crafts an account of what voice can and must do in education.

Book Synopsis

Engaging with the voices of students and educators and the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Eve Mayes crafts an account of what voice can and must do in education. The book works with the textures, tremors and murmurs of voice felt over ten years of ethnographic and participatory research in Australian schools - from research encounters with students and puppets, to school governance council meetings, to school reform evaluation processes, to students' political activism. It offers a timely critique of the liberal humanist and late capitalist logics of student voice in educational reform, entwined with an affirmation of other possibilities for transversal pedagogical relations in and beyond institutional sites of education.

Review Quotes

Mayes' compelling research gains strength from the breadth and depth of her own doctoral enquiry focussed on her reform initiative, subsequent work with student governing committees, policy critique, and media analysis. While her research is situated within the specific context of education in Australia, the ontological questions raised by Mayes encourage all readers to engage in thinking-feeling-relating in dialogue.--Victoria Jefferies "Irish Educational Studies"

The Politics of Voice in Education is a vibrant and vital engagement with what else student voice can do in ethical-political, participatory research. Each chapter critically explores how the affective force-field of voice can come to matter in and beyond formal schooling, from the perplexities of student activisms to new ontologies of attunement in how schools listen to young people.-- "EJ Renold, Cardiff University"