An Immanent Account of Teaching. A Clarification on Affirmation, Politics, Love, Ontology, and Ethos
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https://doi.org/10.34767/FE.2021.03.01Keywords:
teaching, ontology, politics, affirmation, love, ethosAbstract
In this article I have made an attempt to give an account of what the project of an immanent ontology of teaching entails, at the same time dealing with some misgivings that arouse in the wake of the publication of our book. Therefore, I started from the key circumstances that made the development of an ontology of teaching a necessary task. The simultaneous disappearance of the common world from our sight, the risk of losing a strictly educational research interest in education, and the functionalisation of education pose a real danger to the very existence of education. To avoid this, it is requisite to engage in an affirmative way of doing educational research, which is aimed at expressing the essence of suppressed educational practices. One of these being teaching. After that, I synthetised the argument developed with Zamojski in Towards an Ontology of Teaching into a five theses. Finally, I responded to potential and actual criticisms of this position by restating the fundamental tenets of an immanent ontology of teaching: affirmation, the relation between education and politics, educational love, ontology and ethos.
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