Heidegger's Hammer: Ontology, Aesthetics, and the Instrumental in Education

Autor/in	Szkudlarek, Tomasz
Titel	Heidegger's Hammer: Ontology, Aesthetics, and the Instrumental in Education
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 72 (2022) 3, S.303-318 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/edth.12532
Schlagwörter	Aesthetics; Educational Theories; Phenomenology; Criticism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ästhetik; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Kritik
Abstract	In the context of the ongoing debate on the ontology of education, where instrumentally defined functions and aims are seen as external to what education is and the focus is on defining "the educational," Tomasz Szkudlarek explores a reverse route in an attempt to see, first, what is "the instrumental" before asking how it operates in education. He assumes that instrumentality may be an ontological phenomenon if we adopt a relational ontology where "things" are always and essentially related to other things, also functionally and instrumentally. To examine this path, Szkudlarek starts with Martin Heidegger's understanding of tools, also in its radicalized version proposed by Graham Harman, and contrasts their conceptions with the phenomenology of tools focusing on their aesthetic value. Through this juxtaposition, educational instrumentality appears as more complex and problematic than much of the current critique assumes, and tools appear as active and seductive elements of the educational. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01