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ERIC Number: EJ1090820
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Mar
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0039-3746
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Undergoing, Mystery, and Half-Knowledge: John Dewey's Disquieting Side
d'Agnese, Vasco
Studies in Philosophy and Education, v35 n2 p195-214 Mar 2016
In this article I argue that Dewey, throughout his work, conducted a systematic dismantling of the concept of rationality as mastery and control. Such a dismantling entails, at the same time, the dismantling of the auto-grounded subject, namely, the subject that grounds itself in the power to master experience. The Deweyan challenge to Western ontology goes straight to the core of the subject's question. Dewey not only systematically challenged the understanding of thinking as a process consciously managed by the subject but also conceived of thinking as an event rather than a process--something that occurs in us rather than something intentionally staged by a reflective subject. Such a twofold dismantling of rationality and subject rather than a flow in a nihilistic/relativistic account of education results in a reinforcement of education that must be understood not so much as the attempt to understand and predict experience but as the means to create new, unpredictable experience. As a result, education, for Dewey, is grounded on, moved by, and directed at uncertainty. Education, in a sense, engenders uncertainty.
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Language: English
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