ABSTRACT
Deleuze and Guattari claim that 'philosophy is the discipline that involves creating concepts' and that the 'object of philosophy is to create concepts that are always new'. This chapter is designed to take this philosophical practice and to encourage an application of the approach within education settings. It argues that a philosophical approach of this kind is essential to the theory and practice of education studies. There is a pedagogical intent that can be drawn up from a recognition of what Deleuze and Guattari refer to as 'nomad thought' or 'nomadism' (1988), where nomadic inquiry involves a movement in space, smoothing out existing patterns and opening up a new trajectory or pathway. The Deleuzian creative practice of conceptualisation is therefore not simply about the creation of new ideas in a learner-centred domain of education practice; it has tendencies and leanings which pay attention to realist ontology and a holism of the self.
