Introduction: What is Education? A Polemical Question

Abstract

'What is Education?' is a question of central import today. Yet, in a contemporary situation replete with educational institutions and saturated by discourses of 'education,' it is nevertheless necessary to take up this question again from another angle. Despite this global institutionalisation and saturation, there remains a lack, something critical to the history, thought and practice of education that education itself requires to be sought.