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Education is society … and there is no society: The ontological turn of education
Policy Futures in Education ( IF 1.3 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-21 , DOI: 10.1177/1478210320933018
F Tony Carusi 1, 2 , Tomasz Szkudlarek 2
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Recent work in education research and policy studies has been critical of the view that sees education as a fix for social problems. This perspective invites a reconsideration of the relationship between education and society that breaks from the long held instrumental assumptions informing most education theory and policy, wherein education is a means to a fully reconciled society. Drawing on Ernesto Laclau’s argument for the impossibility of society, this article considers the ontology of education in light of society’s impossibility. Referring to previous work on rhetorics and tropes in education policy and theory, we discuss how ‘ontological rhetorics’ in the discourse of education create the objects on and through which it operates. By focusing on the ontology of education, we are able to theorize education as more than and different from its role as a means to an end. Expanding the way Laclau and Mouffe use Althusser’s notion of overdetermination, we speak of education as beyond and excessive to the demands of the social, making education a tropological register of the social through which we continually encounter the impossibility of society. Rather than being effective means to current forms of political power, education contributes to the production of discursive resources necessary for the construction of any political entity, for configurations of the political understood as the ontological process of creating the frameworks of social life.

中文翻译:

教育是社会……没有社会:教育的本体论转向

在教育研究和政策研究方面的最新工作一直批评将教育视为解决社会问题的观点。这种观点促使人们重新考虑教育与社会之间的关系,这与长期以来为大多数教育理论和政策所用的工具性假设有所不同,在教育中,教育是实现全面和解的手段。借鉴埃内斯托·拉克劳(Ernesto Laclau)关于社会不可能的观点,本文从社会不可能的角度来考虑教育的本体论。参照先前有关教育政策和理论中的修辞学和比喻的工作,我们讨论教育话语中的“本体论修辞学”如何创造其在其上和通过其运作的对象。通过关注教育的本体,我们有能力在理论上将教育作为一种手段来达到目的,而这与其作用有所不同。扩大拉克劳和穆菲使用阿尔都塞过分确定的观念的方式,我们将教育视为对社会要求的超越和过度,使教育成为社会的形态学标志,通过它我们不断遇到社会的不可能。教育不是形成当前政治权力形式的有效手段,而是有助于产生建设任何政治实体所必需的话语资源,因为政治的配置被理解为创造社会生活框架的本体论过程。我们认为教育超越了社会的要求,并且超出了社会的要求,使教育成为社会的形态学记录,通过它我们不断遇到社会的不可能。教育不是形成当前政治权力形式的有效手段,而是有助于产生建设任何政治实体所必需的话语资源,因为政治的配置被理解为创造社会生活框架的本体论过程。我们认为教育超越了社会的要求,并且超出了社会的要求,使教育成为社会的形态学记录,通过它我们不断遇到社会的不可能。教育不是形成当前政治权力形式的有效手段,而是有助于产生建设任何政治实体所必需的话语资源,因为政治的配置被理解为创造社会生活框架的本体论过程。
更新日期:2020-06-21
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