Education by the probability: an essay about possible educabilities with the thoughts of Nietzsche and Deleuze

Abstract

In this article, we think about the possible educabilities by means of the probability permeated by the thought of the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Gilles Deleuze. By choosing a political position that unbounds the probability from mathematics education, thus establishing an “education by the probability”, we go through aspects that can strengthen this way of thinking in a school education. We will set forth considerations about forms of knowledge that may emerge from a pedagogical attitude guided by this thought and about the mathematization process of the probability in a school education, understanding this process as an action on and through mathematics. Regarding specially the mathematization, we discuss four definitions of probability commonly found in education and, together with the thought of the authors already mentioned and others, we seek to rethink its educabilities in the school context.