Product reviews for Becoming Mobius

The teaching manual is a form of book which has become increasingly popular in recent years. With its tips and menus of how to be a -˜brilliant' teacher, there is an assumption that careful replication of set principles should underpin the work of teachers. However both the ethical and the particular can become buried and lost in such narratives. Becoming Mobius, growing out of the philosophies of Deleuze and Guattari, instead emphasises the particular, the transient, the detail of the lived experience in education. It provokes the reader to consider the intricate networks of teaching from a series of alternative perspectives and in so doing, to reflect on their own assumptions about practice, ethics and beliefs. This book challenges us to think and reflect on what we value in education, not by telling us how we should act, but by sensitising us to the everyday complexity and experience of being a teacher.