Sustainable Empowering Learning Environments
Conversations with Gramsci’s Organic Intellectual
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23247609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sechaba Mahlomaholo (0000-0002-6811-1626), Vhonani Netshandama (0000-0002-2466-6099) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 73-82 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Intellectual: A Phenomenom in Multidimensional Perspectives (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9781848880276_008 |
| OpenAlex | W3135465961 |
| ISBN | 9781848880276 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
In order to understand the role, the character, the nature and the place of intellectuals (us) and intellectual work, we use Antonio Gramsci’s concept of organic intellectual as a point of entry. This theoretical position enables us to talk from a vantage point about the public intellectual who has to move in the direction of engaged scholarship where research is about discovery, integration, sharing and application between and among the intellectuals and all instances of civil society. Through this theorization, grounded in Boyer’s notion of scholarship of engagement, we look at the unfinished business of emancipation from the legacy of capitalist apartheid’s social arrangement. To concretise our argument we use examples from the school and the university education scenes. The point we attempt to make therefore is that; intellectual work is always political because the past and the present experiences (capitalist apartheid) as well as future aspirations (liberation) always inform what we say about ourselves, what discursive practices we value and valorize as legitimate knowledge, and finally, how society in general is ultimately (re-)structured.
Argument (complex analysis) · Civil society · Critical theory · Emancipation · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Digital Education and Society · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Philosophy · Political theory and Gramsci
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |