ERIC Number: EJ747701
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Publication Date: 2006-Aug
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The Literary Life of Educational Authority
Bingham, Charles
Journal of Philosophy of Education, v40 n3 p357-369 Aug 2006
This article looks into the workings of educational authority. While scholarly debate in education usually promotes authority as either good or bad, the same debate seldom asks questions about how authority works. This article is, then, an answer to the question "How?" How does educational authority operate? It operates, it is suggested, in much the same way that literary authority operates. To make the case for educational authority as literary authority, the paper uses the philosophical work of Jacques Derrida and the literary work of Franz Kafka.
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Power Structure, Debate, Literary Criticism, Organizational Theories, Educational Administration, Intellectual History, Inferences
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Language: English
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