Interrogating the emotional turn: Making connections with Foucault and Deleuze

In this paper I use theoretical insights from Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari
to explore what I have called ‘the emotional turn’ in education. In following
trails of the pedagogical repercussions of the Foucauldian notion of the
care of the self, I trace various ways that it has been used and transformed
in discourses of progressive pedagogy. The Foucauldian conceptualization of
the care of the self is further making connections with the Deleuzian notion
of desire and affect. What I suggest is that revisiting education as a site
of intense power relations at play, but also as a plane for the production of
intense flows of desire and affect, can perhaps create moments for thinking
critically about the possible dangers of current discourses revolving around
emotional learning.

Citation:
Tamboukou, M. (2003) ‘Interrogating the emotional turn: Making connections with Foucault and Deleuze.’ Eur. J. of Psychotherapy, Counselling & Health 6 (3) 209-223.