Principles of Transversality in Globalization and Education

This unique book comprehensively covers the evolving field of transversality, globalization and education, and presents creative, research-based thought experiments that seek to unravel the forces of globalization impacting education.

Pursuing various approaches to and uses of transversality, with a focus on the ideas of Félix Guattari, it is the only book of its kind. Specifically, it examines the influence of Guattari at the forefront of educational research that addresses, enhances and sets free activist micro-perspectives, which can counter macro-global movements, such as capitalism and climate change.

This book is a global education research text that includes perspectives from four continents, providing a balanced and significant work on globalization in education.

Associate Professor David R. Cole works as an educational researcher at Western Sydney University, Australia. Currently the Globalisation theme leader at the Centre for Educational Research (CER), he has dedicated his career to exploring how the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari can be used to critique, enliven and change educational practice; his efforts have yielded more than 100 publications and sixteen books in the field. Cole thinks in an international context and has completed 12 major research projects that have investigated how the ideas of Deleuze and Guattari work in an empirical sense. Cole’s latest monograph is: “A Pedagogy of Cinema” (with Joff P.N. Bradley), Sense Publishers, Rotterdam.

Joff P.N. Bradley is associate professor in the faculty of language studies at Teikyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the co-author of Deleuze and Buddhism with Tony See and co-writer of A Pedagogy of Cinema with David R. Cole. He has co-edited Educational Philosophy and New French Thought with the same author. He is a member of the New Tokyo Group in Japan, a committed group of language scholars working on critical pedagogy projects in the nation’s capital and beyond.