A question of relevance
Beyond the domestication of educational definition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11424910 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Debbie Hill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 307-321 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Lifelong Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-1370 • E-ISSN: 1464-519X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/026013799293720 |
| OpenAlex | W1991252585 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This paper examines ways in which we, as teachers, can promote our students' critical awareness of the domesticating power of the very definition of education that is commonplace in contemporary discourse. It highlights how a first-year introduction to philosophy of education module encourages students to begin to ‘read their world’ by challenging not only the conventional renditions of education as simply ‘schooling’ but also those accompanying notions of ‘relevant learning’ that are commonly associated with an institutional and vocational focus. A further purpose of this paper is to highlight how a critical analysis of an individual's own social learning is a necessary prerequisite to personal growth and potential social transformation correspondingly. Such an analysis, it is argued, constitutes a direct assault on a much more invisible form of ‘banking’ educational practice than many Freirean educators have previously acknowledged
Critical theory · Epistemology · Higher education · Pedagogy · Philosophy of education · Political science · Power (physics · Relevance (law · Sociology · Vocational education · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy · Global Educational Policies and Reforms
The Politics of Liberation
Counting for Nothing
Critical literacy, breadth of perspective and universities
Paternalism and Consent
The danger of domestication
Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire
The evolution of philosophy of education within educational studies
The Ideological Reduction of Education1
Perspective Transformation
| Highly cited | No |
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