Developing a new philosophy of education by collecting essays on recent French thinkers, this book represents a theoretical way forward for the philosophy of education by working with new French thought. This book was originally published as a special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory.

Introduction: Educational Philosophy and 'New French Thought' 1. Educational non-philosophy 2. Stiegler Contra Robinson: On the hyper-solicitation of youth 3. Educational Plasticity: Catherine Malabou and 'the feeling of a new responsibility' 4. Michel Serres' Le Parasite and Martin Buber's I and Thou: Noise in Informal Education Affecting Dialogue Between Communities in Conflict in the Middle East 5. Reading Kristeva through the Lens of Edusemiotics: Implications for education 6. Thinking Meillassoux's Factiality: A pedagogical movement against ossification of bodymind 7. Plasticity: A new materialist approach to policy and methodology 8. Bernard Stiegler's Philosophy of Technology: Invention, decision, and education in times of digitization

David R. Cole is currently the strand leader of globalisation research in the Centre for Educational Research at Western Sydney University, Australia, where he is also an associate professor in Literacies, English and ESL (English as a Second Language).

Joff P.N. Bradley is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Language Studies at Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan. He is currently researching how to use film to best promote philosophical thinking in the CLIL/CBI language classroom.