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Lanas, Maija; Zembylas, Michalinos – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2015
This paper makes a case for love as a powerful force for "transforming power" in our educational institutions and everyday lives, and proposes that "revolutionary love" serves as a moral and strategic compass for concrete individual and collective actions in critical education. The paper begins by reviewing current…
Descriptors: Intimacy, Educational Philosophy, Politics, Critical Theory
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Anglin-Jaffe, Hannah – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2013
This article explores the role of the Deaf child as peer educator. In schools where sign languages were banned, Deaf children became the educators of their Deaf peers in a number of contexts worldwide. This paper analyses how this peer education of sign language worked in context by drawing on two examples from boarding schools for the deaf in…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Boarding Schools
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Pedersen, Helena – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2012
What happens to education when the potential it helps realizing in the individual works against the formal purposes of the curriculum? What happens when education becomes a vehicle for its own subversion? As a subject-forming state apparatus working on ideological speciesism, formal education is engaged in both human and animal stratification in…
Descriptors: Ideology, Animals, Critical Theory, Postmodernism
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Seltzer-Kelly, Deborah; Westwood, Sean J.; Pena-Guzman, David M. – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2010
Curiously, while the efficacy of the arts for the development of multicultural understandings has long been theorized, empirical studies of this effect have been lacking. This essay recounts our combined empirical and philosophical study of this issue. We explicate the philosophical considerations that shaped the development of the arts course we…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Democracy, Cultural Pluralism, Public Education
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Alhadeff-Jones, Michel – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2010
The position adopted in this paper is inspired by Edgar Morin's paradigm of complexity and his critique of scientific and philosophical forms of reductionism. This paper is based on research focusing on the diversity of conceptions of critique developed in academic discourses. It aims to challenge the fragmentation and the reduction framing the…
Descriptors: Models, Educational Theories, Educational Philosophy, Academic Discourse
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Sinha, Shilpi – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2010
This article examines how affect allows us to view the relational form of dialogue, as built upon the work of Derrida and Levinas, to be a site of transformative possibility for students as they encounter and address issues of social justice and difference in the classroom. The understanding of affect that attends this form of dialogue demands…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Cultural Pluralism, Interpersonal Communication, Affective Behavior