Straightening devices

We use Sara Ahmed's concept of straightening devices. She talks about the will as a technique, "a way of holding a subject to account". The concept is interesting to think about how children's imagination was kept within certain borders. The children chewing the borders of a 'right' way of imagining were those willful subjects that child art as a straightening device, or the multiple ways through which imagination was configured within the educational discourse, tried to hold to account.   
We can read those willful subjects as the queer subjects. As studied by Eve Sedgwick, the word queer derives from the Indo-European word 'twerkw', meaning to turn or to twist, thus, a deviation from the straight orientation. The concept is particularly useful for our line 'the hopes and fears of creativity in education'.