Revisiting the Sense of Education from a Critical Perspective to Contribute to Social Justice

Autor/in	Echeverria, Priscilla
Titel	Revisiting the Sense of Education from a Critical Perspective to Contribute to Social Justice
Quelle	In: Power and Education, 15 (2023) 2, S.122-131 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Echeverria, Priscilla)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/17577438221116030
Schlagwörter	Role of Education; Social Justice; Neoliberalism; Politics of Education; Democracy; Human Relations; Educational Practices; Humanization; Power Structure; Capacity Building + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsauftrag; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Demokratie; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Bildungspraxis; Humanisierung
Abstract	This discussion article offers a revision of the meaning of educating in times of "neoliberalism" when we care about "social justice," proposing that more than a speech about it, a critical education would consist in putting efforts into developing democratic human interactions. The Western neoliberal societies in which we live nowadays, have given education an important place as an engine of development, but paradoxically, have acquired "instrumental rationality" as common sense, making decisions in educational processes driven by an interest of control. Thus, these societies have developed educational systems obsessed with instrumental criteria to improve quality, such as effectiveness, efficiency, and performance. Therefore, the micro educational level, the human interaction, has impregnated with this instrumental logic, dehumanizing the people involved, mainly teachers and students, turning them into objects that must be able to achieve predetermined results. Considering this concern and following the thinking of Iris Young and Hanna Arendt, this work seeks to shed light to orient educational processes to strengthen social justice. In order to reach such aim, this article defends that any attempt to educate should start from the micro educational level, trying to confront dehumanizing logics of control and rejecting domination by interacting in a democratic way that strengthen the capacity of action of others. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01