Education in Radical Uncertainty

Stephen Carney is Professor of Educational Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research focuses on global educational reform and has involved ethnographic work in Denmark, England, Nepal and China. He is active in the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), especially its Special Interest Group concerned with ‘Post-foundational approaches to comparative and international education’. He is also a member of Executive Committee of the Comparative Education Society of Europe (CESE). Ulla Ambrosius Madsen is Associate Professor of Educational Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark. She has carried out extensive field work in Mongolia, Eritrea, Nepal, South Korea, Zambia and Denmark with a focus on schooling and youth, research methodology and philosophy of education. She has written widely on these themes, especially in relation to the work of Jean Baudrillard.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsSeries Editors’ ForewordIntroduction: By Way of Explanation1. A Thousand and One Disturbing Little Stories2. Education in/and the Global3. Into the Darkness4. Writing as MethodIn Extremis5. A World in/of Fragments6. Comparative Education and Radical UncertaintyNotesReferencesIndex

This is a courageous book that will make readers think differently about educational research. Carney and Madsen present a profound epistemological argument for alternative ways of doing research, and they also actually do it. Aesthetically curated, juxtaposed, designed in poetic forms and complemented by drawings and sketches, little stories lead to an extremely coherent portrait of the complex world of schooled life in three sites. A must read!