This article explores two questions: (1) Is education a unique and distinct discipline? (2) Is education anything other than the achievement of noneducational aims or objectives? In it, Trevor Norris examines how these two questions are interconnected, specifically analyzing how what we think about education as a distinct field of study informs what we ask of it as a practice. When we study education, we should be educational about it, because if we render education as the object of study, it is never endowed with agency or distinctiveness. Norris inquires into the distinctiveness of education as a way of thinking and a way of impacting the world, asking what are the conditions that make it possible for us to identify something as “educational”? To investigate this question, Norris draws from Hannah Arendt's account of politics, and he concludes by describing a case study assignment that requires educational foundations students to draw from philosophy of education in order to show what exactly is educational about education by contrasting education with business and psychology.

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关于教育的教育是什么？教育的独特性

本文探讨了两个问题：(1) 教育是一门独特而独特的学科吗？(2) 除了达到非教育目的或目标外，教育是否还有其他意义？在其中，特雷弗·诺里斯 (Trevor Norris) 研究了这两个问题是如何相互关联的，特别是分析了我们将教育作为一个独特的研究领域的看法如何告知我们将其作为一种实践提出的要求。当我们研究教育时，我们应该对它进行教育，因为如果我们把教育作为研究的对象，它永远不会被赋予能动性或独特性。诺里斯探究教育作为一种思维方式和影响世界的方式的独特性，询问什么条件使我们有可能将某些东西识别为“教育”？为了研究这个问题，诺里斯借鉴了汉娜·阿伦特对政治的描述，