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Deleuze, ethical education, and the unconscious
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May, Todd;  Semetsky, Inna
Institution
The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Education & Arts, School of Education
Description
While teaching values is an important part of education, contemporary moral education, however, presents a set of pre-established values to be inculcated rather than comprising a critical inquiry into their possible rightness and wrongness. This essay proposes a somewhat different direction by saying that education, rather than concerning itself with the moral, should concern itself with the ethical. Although morals and ethics are usually equated, we use ethical here as posited by Gilles Deleuze's question of who we might be, based on the recognition that we have no real idea of who we might be because we do not yet know what a body (which for Deleuze, after Spinoza, is both physical and mental, corporeal and incorporeal) is capable of. This essay addresses the ethical dimension of Deleuze's philosophy in the context of education and pedagogy as based on several important conceptual shifts. First, it proposes a broader inquiry into who we might be. Second, it proposes that it is what we do not know, rather than what we do, that is of educational significance. Third, it asserts that much of our world, as well as our learning, are unconscious rather than conscious. This postulate accords with Deleuze's larger ontology, in which there is more to this world than appears to common sense in immediate experience. And fourth, it proposes education as committed to experimentation rather than the transmission of facts or inculcation of values.
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Nomadic Education: Variations on a Theme by Deleuze and Guattari p. 143-157
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Educational Futures 18
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https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=637&osCsid=1a7
Date
2008
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Keyword(s)
Deleuze;  education;  values;  philosophy;  ethics
Resource Type
book chapter
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804745
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ISBN:9789087904111
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