A New Logic of Emancipation: The Methodology of Jacques Ranciere

Autor/in	Biesta, Gert
Titel	A New Logic of Emancipation: The Methodology of Jacques Ranciere
Quelle	In: Educational Theory, 60 (2010) 1, S.39-59 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-2004
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-5446.2009.00345.x
Schlagwörter	Social Justice; Educational Theories; Democracy; Freedom; Power Structure; Political Issues; Politics; Social Change; Educational Philosophy; Role of Education; Educational Environment; Politics of Education; Social Environment; Educational Principles; Critical Theory; Educational Practices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Demokratie; Freiheit; Politischer Faktor; Politik; Sozialer Wandel; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungsauftrag; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Soziales Umfeld; Bildungsprinzip; Kritische Theorie; Bildungspraxis
Abstract	The idea of emancipation plays a central role in modern educational theories and practices. The emancipatory impetus is particularly prominent in critical traditions and approaches where the aim of education is conceived as that of emancipating students from oppressive structures in the name of social justice and human freedom. What is needed to effect emancipation, so it is assumed in this tradition, is an exposition of the workings of power, as it is only when one sees and understands how power operates that it is possible to address its influence. In several of his publications the French philosopher Jacques Ranciere has raised questions about the logic of this view of emancipation. Throughout his career Ranciere has also worked consistently on the articulation of a different approach, an alternative way to understand and do emancipation. In this essay Gert Biesta provides a systematic reconstruction of Ranciere's ideas on emancipation from three angles: political theory, political practice, and the practice of education. Biesta argues that Ranciere provides us with a new and different way to understand how education might contribute to emancipation and also where and how, often in the name of emancipation and democracy, it actually hinders emancipation. (Contains 43 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10