This book explores how traditional institutions of education are affected by the current
discourse and practices of 'learning' and more specifically how the evolution towards
so-called 'learning environments' affects the kind of gathering or association that is staged
and configured within families schools and universities. In addition it addresses the
question of how to articulate what is educational in the context of 'making' family school or
university and to what extent this making is always also a public act. The aim is to approach
and investigate family school and university as educational practices to focus on the forms
of gatherings or associations that take shape within them and to explore the public but also
possible 'privatizing' character of these aspects.The book presents a diverse range of sketches
intended as preparatory study exercises. What they all share despite the different hands and
eyes and the different sensitivities is theattempt to figure out what education is all about.
Three objectives can be distinguished for the sketches: a cartographic one (to map the
discourse of learning but also the discursive and material arrangements of actual educational
practices) a morphological one (to describe the educational forms of gathering) and a
theoretical one (to bring educational issues into the discussion). The book's overall aims are
to re-establish 'the educational' as an issue to make it visible to give it shape to give it
a voice and to make it a thing that can and should be discussed thus establishing a point of
departure for further inquiry and its (re)invention.
