ABSTRACT
In the concluding chapter we highlight some of the main insights emerging from the chapters about the possibilities for a new publicness of education, both ‘after’ neoliberalism and ‘after’ the critique of neoliberalism. If one thing has become clear from our attempt at exploring democratic possibilities for education beyond neoliberalism and its critique, it may well be the fact that there is a need not just to defend educational thought against its uneducational and non-educational use but also to literally defend people who are subjected to the violence it produces and the authoritarianism it feeds, both for those who ‘do’ education and for those who ‘enjoy’ education. The struggle for a new publicness of education thus requires both intellectual and political work and requires for the two to work in tandem.
