NDLI: Experiencing (Im)potentiality: Bollnow and Agamben on the Educational Meaning of School Practices

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Vlieghe, Joris
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	This article explores the uses of Agamben’s philosophy for understanding the educational meaning of practices that typically take/took place at school, such as the collective rehearsal of the alphabet or the multiplication tables. More precisely, I propose that these forms of ‘practising’ show what schooling, as a particular and historically contingent institution, is all about. Instead of immediately assessing the ‘practice of practising’ in terms of learning outcomes, I turn to Bollnow’s attempt to analyze this phenomenon in a substantially educational way, which for him essentially consists in opposing practising and learning. I show that his analysis is superficial and that we need Agamben’s notion of ‘potentiality’ in order to come to grips with the sense of this phenomenon. This will allow to see that practising concerns an uncommon way to relate to a subject matter that makes possible a transformation of individual and collective existence. The main objective of this investigation is not to hold a plea for reintroducing obsolete pedagogical methods, but to rethink the very meaning of education.
Starting Page	189
Ending Page	203
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00393746
Journal	Studies in Philosophy and Education
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	1573191X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2012-07-06
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Agamben Bollnow Stiegler Practising Potentiality Schooling as a unique pedagogical form Educational Philosophy Philosophy of Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Education

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