In the communication we both argue against the current episteme of modern mass schools and its organization, and for a new episteme oriented from and for the common good and diversity. In the first part, from a Foucauldian perspective, we reject the modern episteme for education and education organization (Ball and Collet, 2021), and we propose to open up to alternative education organization using his concepts of positive and productive power and heterotopia. In the second part, we propose to join the Foucauldian proposal of an ethical and political education (organization) based on the care of the self, others and environment with an approach to education as a commoning activity (Collet and Ball, 2022). Both the critical and the proposal parts could help education organizations to question its current truth, forms of government and what kind of subjectivities and relationship they produce and to be engaged with alternative proposals based on diversity and oriented from and for the common good.

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