Learning as Swimming: Imaginational School Project in Deleuzean Way

Abstract

This article interprets allegories of water and swimming to create smooth space in the future school, as had been used by Deleuze and other philosophers, who inspired Deleuze (S. Maimon, H. Bergson). These concepts are related to the things, which are straightly or metaphorically important for the educational field: repetition and creativity, deep diving and being on the surface, balancing between a broad field and local area, using different directions of movement, being relaxed and attentive. The proper space in the school is imagined as a flooding space that means a disorder, changing positions of things, which helps to deterritorialize space without stepping out from it. Four dangers: Fear, Clarity, Power and Disgust will be shortly described in the perspective of new school project. All these dangers according to Deleuzean war machine paralyze potentiality of creativity, except of Disgust. What do these dangers mean in the situation of the school flooding is interpreted within this article also.