Lewis Inoperative Learning

A radical rewriting of educational potentialities
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-39569-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 150 Seiten

Reihe: Theorizing Education

Inoperative Education draws upon the movement in educational philosophy towards a weak philosophy, which does not offer a set of solutions or guidelines for improving educational outcomes, but rather renders inoperative assumptions about the theory-practice coupling so popular in education today. This book presents a challenge to contemporary notions of education as learning, by arguing that such logic reduces education to merely instrumental ends, which can only be assessed in terms of predefined measurement tools.

The goal of this book is to outline various forms of inoperative learning in which the goal-directedness of learning is temporarily suspended. From the perspective of learning, the suspension of progress, growth, and maturity would usually be seen as obstacles needing to be overcome on the path toward set goals. Yet Lewis argues that a serious investigation of inoperativity opens up possibilities that would be otherwise unavailable in a world fixated on the question of learning. In dialogue with philosophers such as Agamben, Benjamin, and Esposito, as well as authors such as Kafka and Walser, Lewis turns our collective attention to what remains when concepts such as learning, child development, teacher effectivity, and personal growth are left idle. What remains is precisely potentiality itself, the potentiality to be otherwise than.

Inoperative Education presents a radical rewriting of educational possibilities. As such, the book should be of great interest to academics, researchers, philosophers and postgraduate students searching for alternative logics of education beyond learning. The book may also be of interest to educational policy specialists who are looking for new and innovative forms of critical discourse analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lewis, Tyson E.

Lewis, Tyson

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Philosophie der Erziehung, Bildungstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Inception

1. Impotentiality

2. Interruption: "The Coming of John"

3. Impropriety

4. Infantility

5. Interruption: "Sopa d’Europa"

6. Ineffectiveness

7. Impersonality

8. Interruption: "The Great Swimmer"

Über Autor(innen)

Tyson E. Lewis is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Art Education at the College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas.