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Publication Date: 2019
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Hope and Education beyond Critique. Towards Pedagogy with a Lower Case 'P'
Ethics and Education, v14 n4 p453-466 2019
For Rorty, any attempt to articulate a theory of truth as such is of no interest. This implies that although it may be meaningful to differentiate the truths from the falsehoods, it is pointless to say what the property of goodness is in the things we believe are good to do. Rorty points out that our no longer understanding Philosophy -- with the capital 'P'--as the framing of normative notions would make room for a post-philosophical culture where the philosophers' activity would be closer to the practices of cultural critique with the self-imposed limitation of devoting themselves exclusively to advancing descriptions of how things relate to each other. This article aims to explore what would happen if this provocation were brought to the field of Pedagogy. Taking on this Rortyan theme, keeping hope on the potentially liberating and transformative power of education implies a hopeful attitude by which individuals involved in education processes express their love for the world as a commitment to a better future, as well as their belief in its possibilities.
Descriptors: Criticism, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Educational Philosophy, Futures (of Society), Negative Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Correlation, Transformative Learning, Educational Attitudes, Ethics, Cultural Influences, Educational Change, Politics of Education
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