Education as Mediation Between Child and World
The Role of Wonder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10801335 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anders Schinkel (0000-0003-3929-1418, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 479-492 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Philosophy and Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3746 • E-ISSN: 1573-191X |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11217-019-09687-8 |
| OpenAlex | W2987014742 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 19 |
Education as a deliberate activity and purposive process necessarily involves mediation, in the sense that the educator mediates between the child and the world. This can take different forms: the educator may function as a guide who initiates children into particular practices and domains and their modes of thinking and perceiving; or act as a filter, selecting what of the world the child encounters and how; or meet the child as representative of the adult world. I look at these types of mediation (or aspects of the mediating role of the educator) at the hand of the work of John Dewey, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and Richard Peters. The purpose of this paper is to explore the bearing that the mediating role of the educator—as interpreted by these authors—has on the role wonder may play in the educational process. I suggest that initiation highlights the familiarizing function of wonder, and is most readily associated with inquisitive wonder; representation draws attention to the defamiliarizing role of (in particular contemplative) wonder, as well as to its world-affirming role; and selection (the educator as ‘filter’) foregrounds the distinction between momentary and dispositional wonder
Aesthetics · Contemplation · Epistemology · Function (biology · Higher education · Mediation · Philosophy of education · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Wonder · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychological and Educational Research Studies · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 2.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |