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What Is This Thing Called Education

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ID2386248
AuthorsClaire Colebrook (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA)
Year2017
Volume23
Issue9
Pages649-655
Publication date2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800417725357
OpenAlexW2751644741
LanguageEN
Citations received30
References cited3

Education exposes a conundrum that extends well beyond government policy and beyond those working in education as a designated discipline. If education is nothing more than a human science or the achievement of satisfactory outcomes by way of testing, then education has no future. Education is the manufacture of docile subjects and (as Bernard Stiegler has argued) it will do little more than short-circuit attention. Stiegler does, however, point out that education's power to orient bodies beyond themselves toward a complex future relies necessarily on the same technologies that contract and disorient individuals, becoming nothing more than captivation by already actualized forms. Education is at once necessary to bring forth a future distinct from what we already are, and yet that orientation toward a world of relations that is not oneself comes with the essential risk of stupidity

Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Nothing · Power (physics · Sociology · Stupidity · Digital Media and Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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Citations per year4,29
Citation span2019 - 2026 (8)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 30

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