A Reappraisal of Children's "Potential"

Autor/inn/en	Beauvais, Clémentine; Higham, Rupert
Titel	A Reappraisal of Children's "Potential"
Quelle	In: Studies in Philosophy and Education, 35 (2016) 6, S.573-587 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Higham, Rupert)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-3746
DOI	10.1007/s11217-016-9508-5
Schlagwörter	Children; Child Development; Self Actualization; Philosophy; Interpersonal Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Kindesentwicklung; Self actualisation; Selbstverwirklichung; Philosophie; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Abstract	What does it mean for a child to fulfil his or her potential? This article explores the contexts and implications of the much-used concept of potential in educational discourses. We claim that many of the popular, political and educational uses of the term in relation to childhood have a problematic blind spot: interpersonality, and the necessary coexistence for the concept to be receivable of all children's "potentials". Rather than advocating abandoning the term--a futile gesture given its emotive force--we argue that the concept of children's potential must be profoundly rethought to be workable as a philosophical notion in education. In an era marked by the unspoken assumption that "unlimited potential" is always a good thing, we argue that it might be necessary to think about the limitations of the notion of individual potential; namely, the moment when it comes into contact with other people's projects. We propose a conceptualisation of potential as the negotiated, situated, ever-changing creation of a group of individuals, in a process marked by conflict, and which remains essentially difficult. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01