Session Information
Session 4B, Radical, Emancipatory and/or Negative Pedagogies (2)
Papers
Time:
2005-09-08
11:00-12:30
Room:
ENG
Chair:
Zdenko Kodelja
Contribution
The paper explores the possibilities for an emancipatory education through a reading of Hegel, Derrida, Laclau and Kristeva. Emancipatory education requires, it is argued, an un-reading of contemporary practices of education. This process of un-reading begins with the Hegelian account of the Slave as the producer of knowledge in the service of the Master. It leads to what may be called a slave education - something which can be read alongside much of contemporary schooling. The Hegelian 'end of history' transforms slave education under the totalizing frame of Absolute Reason - a concept that can be read either as leading to a totalitarian state or as a principle unwhich freedom can be continually re-read through an education emancipated from all masters. Derrida, Laclau and Kristeva provide strategies to challenge any totalizing frame. Laclau draws upon Derrida in order to reframe politics and the possibility of emancipation(s). Derrida provides an approach to de-constructive readings that keep open the possibility of the education (drawing out) of possibilities for creative thought and action. Kristeva provides insights into the transposition and transformation of meanings through intertextuality, the speaking subject and the body. Each approach provides a means by which to re- read, and un-read, the frozen bodies of thought that constitute the official curricula of schooling.The paper will draw upon data collected across a range of professions and contexts focusing on both formal and informal processes of 'education' that appear or are said to be taking place. These contexts include the professional training of medics, schools and everyday contexts of interaction in public spaces. It will explore the ways in which education is read in each context, exploring the extent to which each reading reduces meanings to authorized views or opens them out to alternative readings for creative purposes. The possibility of alternative readings opens the possibilities for alternative writings, that is, alternative ways of representing and creating a sense of self, action and being with others. It is argued that Laclau, Derrida and Kristeva offer re-readings of Hegel that open the way for education as an emancipatory educational process fundamental to creativity in contemporary societies. It is further argued that education for emancipatory and creative purposes is fundamental to any development of a radical pluralist democracy.
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