In education, issues related to knowledge processes have historically been discussed by curriculum studies. The article aims to discuss the question of knowing, through an investigation of the "practices of thought". Methodologically, the study builds a territory of exteriority stretched among education, philosophy (Michel Foucault) and literature (Julio Cortázar). The analysis aims to contribute to the educational debate by proposing working hypotheses for curriculum research anchored in the ethical-political need of producing genealogies of "practices of thought". It concludes, by articulating Foucault-Cortázar, to discuss the need of questioning the practices of thought in our own research areas.
Practices of thought; Michel Foucault; Julio Cortázar; curriculum studies; genealogy