- Title
- Ethics and education as practices of freedom
- Creator
- Tabensky, Pedro
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/305672
- Identifier
- vital:58602
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2020.1791822"
- Description
- On the one hand, according to Richard Rorty, Paulo Freire and others, education is the practice of freedom. On the other hand, according to Michael Foucault, Mary Midgley and others, ethics is the practice of freedom. How, then, are education and ethics related to one another and what do these authors mean by ‘the practice of freedom’? In this piece, I argue that education and ethics are two mutually constitutive aspects of the practice of freedom. Individuals who are able to engage in this practice can most properly be said to be the authors of their lives, that is, individuals who, to borrow from Neil MacGregor, are able to find their ‘place in things’. To find our ‘place in things’ is to do the necessary educative work required for becoming the authors of our lives, that is, for self-actualization (as Rorty and John Dewey have argued). To take on the authorial role is, moreover, to be able effectively to take control of our lives, to organize them into unities for which we are individually responsible. This, according to Midgley, is precisely what it is to be ethical. This work, moreover, requires ongoing development, that is, education, in Dewey’s sense. I further argue that professional education and skills training cannot be understood properly in isolation from these broader educational aims and I criticize mainstream educational practices for not paying sufficient attention to the intimate relationship between the vocational and non-vocational aspects of education.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (10 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Educational Philosophy and Theory, Tabensky, P., 2020. Ethics and education as practices of freedom. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 53(6), pp.568-577, Educational Philosophy and Theory volume 53 number 6 p. 568 2020 1469-5812
- Rights
- Publisher
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- Rights
- Open Access
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