Abstract

Preamble: Singers gathering on stage

This is a paper for three voices. An attempt at a philosophic experience in the symphonic form. The first voice carries the tune and holds the shape of the paper as it focuses on Baudrillard and proposes that public education in Canada today is in fact a simulacra. The second voice has more room to roam, tracing some of the Western philosophical underpinnings of Baudrillard’s stages of the simulacra from Aristotle to Saussure’s centralization of human language and out to the disappearance of the signified altogether. And the third voice, plays a parallel tune to the first two but focuses on the evolution of education for sustainable development. Eventually all three voices find harmonies around the challenges of their respective simulacrum (i.e. public education, human language, and education for sustainable development) and will, as a dramatic conclusion, seek to offer some important educational implications. We have employed, as seen above, different fonts for each voice and divided the paper along symphonic lines (i.e. sonata, adagio, scherzo, and rondo) with each movement being accompanied by one stage of Baudrillard’s development of the simulacra. We encourage the reader to think of this paper as a philosophical score choosing to read each voice separately or all three together seeking resonances along the way.

摘要

序言：歌手齐聚舞台

这是一篇关于三种声音的论文。尝试以交响乐形式进行哲学体验。第一个声音带着调子并保持纸张的形状，因为它专注于鲍德里亚，并提出今天加拿大的公共教育实际上是一种拟像。第二个声音有更多的漫游空间，追溯了鲍德里亚的拟像阶段的一些西方哲学基础，从亚里士多德到索绪尔对人类语言的集中化，再到所指的完全消失。第三个声音与前两个声音平行，但侧重于可持续发展教育的演变。最终，这三种声音都围绕各自拟像（即公共教育、人类语言和可持续发展教育）的挑战找到了和谐，并会：作为一个戏剧性的结论，试图提供一些重要的教育意义。如上所示，我们为每个声音使用了不同的字体，并沿着交响乐线（即奏鸣曲、慢板、谐谑曲和回旋曲）将纸分开，每个乐章都伴随着鲍德里亚拟像发展的一个阶段。我们鼓励读者将本文视为一个哲学分数，选择分别阅读每个声音或三个声音一起寻求共鸣。