Can the very thought of education break bricks? A Commentary on Biesta and Säfström’s ‘A Manifesto for Education’

  • Mario Di PaolantonIo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19137/praxiseducativa-2018-220206

Keywords:

Manifesto for education, education thinking, ideality, temporary tension

Abstract

This text tries to reflect on the very potentiality of education thinking in what refers to there signification of schemes from the reading of “A Manifesto for education”. This manifesto can be understood as an adolescent ideality, which not only begins, but also always sends in disappointment –in this evil of ideality. The ideality pursued by every manifesto can lead to immobility and disappointment, without even trying to break down structuring schemes. The article that is presented will try to approach this question from our own thoughts about the critique of ideality and there flections that the manifesto in question invites us to make. In some way it gives us the possibility to think and think educationally. But what does that mean, exactly? To reach the meaning of thinking about education, we need to consider what is implicit in holding “what is” and “what is not” in tension. This will focus on the last section of the work.

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Author Biography

Mario Di PaolantonIo

Profesor Asociado en la Facultad de Educación de la Universidad de York, Toronto. Canadá. Sus intereses están ligados al campo de la Filosofía, la Etica y las metodologías de innovación a partir de perspectivas que prestan
atención a temas de la memoria y la historia. Forma parte del Centro de
Estudios en Pedagogías Contemporáneas de la Escuela de Humanidades de la
Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), Buenos Aires. Argentina |

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Published

2018-05-31

How to Cite

Di PaolantonIo, M. (2018). Can the very thought of education break bricks? A Commentary on Biesta and Säfström’s ‘A Manifesto for Education’. Praxis Educativa, 22(2), 47–57. https://doi.org/10.19137/praxiseducativa-2018-220206

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