Education Theory Reading Network
A platform for discussion centered around issues in education theory - all welcome
A School of Education research event | |
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Date | 26 July 2023 |
Place | ZOOM |
Provider | School of Education |
Intended audience | Academic staff and students |
Registration information | Contact the event organiser for the online meeting link |
Organizer | Brahm Norwich |
Event details
The final meeting of the term, with the continuation of the focus on democracy and hope.
Reading:
Tiainen, K. Leiviskä, A. Brunila, K. (2019) Democratic Education for Hope: Contesting the Neoliberal
Common Sense. Studies in Philosophy and Education 38:641–655
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-019-09647-2
Abstract
This paper provides a reinterpretation of Paulo Freire’s philosophy of hope and suggests that this interpretation may function as a fruitful ground for democratic education that aims to contest the prevailing neoliberal ‘common sense’. The paper defines hope as a democratic virtue required for resisting the discursive practises and affective mechanisms associated with the contemporary neoliberal ethos—those, which Carlos Alberto Torres characterizes as the “neoliberal common sense” and Lauren Berlant as “cruel optimism”.
Conclusively, the paper constructs three principles for democratic education –´history as possibility´, ´the ethics of intervention´, and ´democratization’—which are intended to function as a foundation for democratic education through which the virtue of hope can be fostered. These principles are argued to form a basis for reviving the political dimensions of education and thus allowing collective transformative action.
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Tiainen_et_al_2019_Democratic_educ_for_hope.pdf | Reading (528K) |