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00 SES 08.2 Keynote, Livable Life, Educational Theory and the Imperative of Constant Change
Keynote, will be streamed to W2.04
Contribution
In this presentation I problematise the idea that we live in an era of constant change with respect to education and educational research. I rather claim that what presents itself as change on supra-national as well as national levels, or even in classrooms, more often than not has to do with adjustments within a given reality rather than of a radical and profound change of this same reality. By challenging the very understanding of “constant change”, I show how the current state of affairs in education in many European countries is rather to be understood as a consequence of no change at all. I intend to show how this blocking of profound change in education creates a dangerous situation in which European democracies are increasingly leaving people behind. The response to this situation I will suggest is to mobilize radical forms of theory that address the inherent emancipatory and transformational character of education. This kind of theory, I argue, actually also addresses the central characteristics of a truly pluralistic democracy, since these are reliant upon diverse persons who are capable of instigating change as part of the exercise of freedom. Drawing on Jacques Rancière and Judith Butler the presentation will lay out some strategies that resist an anti-democratic and anti-pluralistic tendency within current educational trends and instead promote an education that is concerned with a ‘livable life’ (Butler 2015) for all.
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