ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the ideas and writing of Frantz Fanon to offer a renewed vision of the project of education. It focuses on action topicalises questions of subjectivity that include, but extend beyond, formal and informal spaces of learning to consider political engagement. The readings of Fanon's writings underscore the importance of three key points. First, they emphasise the inextricable links between emotions and learning. Second, they emphasise how the political inscribes the personal, albeit in specific and idiosyncratic ways. Third argument concerning how rhetoric or mobilisations of appeals to notions of child perform particular and significant ideological work that connects education with politics and individual psychology with social policy. Child as method, as a Fanonian-informed approach, offers an analytic methodology for reading the practice of child within social and political theory.
