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Publication Date: 2018-Apr
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Collaboration: The Politics of Working Together
Shuffelton, Amy B.
Educational Theory, v68 n2 p147-160 Apr 2018
"Collaboration" is frequently urged on students, who are praised for being "good collaborators." Yet collaboration has two senses: a positive sense of autonomously undertaken joint endeavor, but also a sinister implication of treacherous cooperation with enemies. In this article, Amy Shuffelton probes the uses and misuses of collaboration as an educational aim. She engages Josiah Royce's "Philosophy of Loyalty" and John Dewey's "The Public and Its Problems", as well as contemporary critiques of neoliberal workplace structures, to explore the loyalties that shape what we do and who we are. Education for democratic citizenship, Shuffelton concludes, demands that children be provided opportunities to undertake conjoint activities that go beyond the limitations of conventional school collaborations.
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Objectives, Philosophy, Neoliberalism, Citizenship Education, Democracy, Politics
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