ABSTRACT

This chapter explains the possible features of a post-foundational study, how it is possible to discern and portray the foundation-less study moments, and what implications this project has for rethinking schooling in current China at the next of East and West, past and present in a post-foundational way. Rather, a post-foundational study scrutinizes the very foundation we start with and stand upon, cuts into our taken-for-granted knowledge and reason, and opens to new horizons of thinking. Post-foundational study, treated as being antagonistic to the learning logic, first of all demands a radical denial of not just particular ends but ends in general and in toto. Put simply, a post-foundational study problematizes the grounding principles of modern epistemology, including the representational language, a given educational body, and an identity-based difference.