FROM IMPROVEMENT TO TRANSFORMATION- an attempt to think the institutionalisation of education anewThis paper is an attempt to stage what I find to be important questions in relation to institutionalisation of The Pedagogical Act. Bringing together two texts does the staging. One is The Dreamsong of Olav Åsteson, a visionary poetic work that has been sung in the mountainous regions of inner Norway at least since the early Middle Ages. The other text is from our times; Derrida's seminar lecture "Where a teaching body begins and how it ends". Derrida states; "There is no neutral or natural place in teaching. Here for instance is not an indifferent place."With both the educational institutions and himself as a teaching body in mind he is "beginning, then, this late to question, exhibit, and critique systematically, in view of transformation - the borders of that within which I have given more than one talk."(Derrida, Who's afraid of Philosophy, p. 70,71)My intention is to focus on the thresholds, or the space between, both between these texts and similar spaces presented in the texts. Inspired by these two texts, I am proposing a double gesture of constructive opposition with sites both inside and outside the institutions of society, with the porch as the site closest to being recognised as "home" for The Pedagogical Act as such.The porch of the old Norwegian wooden churches, with their carved expressions of transformation, might function as an image for the dynamic site of differance Derrida elsewhere names Khora.Paper, Poster, Research Workshop, Round Table: the title, name and institution of each author, 400-600 words.Symposium: the name and institution of the convenor and discussant; 400-600 word overview of the symposium; for each paper, the title, name and institution of each author and a 150-200 word abstract.