Is education undeconstructible?
Nick Peim discusses the philosophy of education and the direction education as a field of research and a practice is heading.
Is education undeconstructible?
14 May 2025, 17:30 – 19:15
Education continues to enjoy theological status in contemporary thought. Despite severe ontological evidence that the remorseless triumph of the global education archipelago heralds neither enlightenment nor equality, education’s advocates continue to represent its case. And despite urgent prognostications of ecological catastrophe and a general lack of faith in the authority and benignity of the world order, the dangerous humanist strains of educational theology prevail. Nick Peim will consider some gloomy ruminations of contemporary philosophy/thinking in relation to the above issues: especially focussing on Julie Reshe’s Negative Psychoanalysis for the Living Dead (2023) and Catherine Malabou’s Stop Thief! Anarchism and Philosophy (2023).
This event will be particularly useful for those interested in philosophy of education and the direction education as a field of research and a practice is heading.
To book your place, please email Yuxin Su <stnvysu@ucl.ac.uk>.
PESGB seminar series
This event is part of the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB) seminar series. PESGB is a learned society that promotes the study, teaching and application of philosophy of education. Its London Branch hosts seminars every Wednesday in conjunction with the Centre for Philosophy of Education. These seminars are led by national and international scholars in the field, covering a wide range of issues of educational and philosophical concern.
All are welcome to attend.
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Nick Peim
Teacher
A teacher in schools for eighteen years, Nick taught English, liberal arts, educational history, educational theory and research philosophy until 2018 at several universities supervising dozens of doctoral students. He is the author of Thinking in Education Research (Bloomsbury, 2018), Rethinking the Politics of Education (Routledge, 2022) A Critique of Pure Education (Palgrave, 2024) and The Lacanian Teacher (Palgrave, 2025, with Nick Stock).
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