Presenting Education

Situating representation and the politics of the image as central features of the contemporary social milieu, this work explores the nature of the image and its relationship to lived experiences of education. The way the image of education is constructed and consumed in the contemporary social milieu holds significant implications for the way we conceive of and interact with those education environments we experience directly. Drawing on a range of contemporary theories, Hickey and Austin present a reading of the image and the real that actively critiques the contradictions between constricted images of education and those drawn from first-hand experience.