What is the Educational Task? Arousing the Desire for Wanting to Exist in the World in a Grown-up Way
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| author | Gert Biesta |
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| contents | What is the Educational Task? Arousing the Desire for Wanting to Exist in the World in a Grown-up Way Gert Biesta Educación up ness grown teaching Education Discussions about education often focus on the purposes that should be achieved or the outcomes that should be produced. In this paper I approach the question of the purpose of education differently, by asking what the work of teachers and other educators should focus. The answer I propose is that this work is about arousing the desire in children and young people for wanting to exist in the world in what I refer to as a "grown-up" way. I explain my use of the idea of "grown-up-ness," where I argue that we should not think of this as the outcome of a developmental trajectory but as a way in which human beings can try to exist in and with the world. This suggests, as I explain, that central to the work of education is the interruption of ways in which children and young people are entirely self-centred and self-focused, thus turning them towards the world in which their existence as grown-up subjects can only take place. Education that is focused on this has a task to provide time, space and curricular forms through which children and young people can work "on" their grown-up-ness. And education needs to provide sustenance so that children and young people can be supported and nourished in their task of trying to exist in a grown-up way. 2019 artículo científico 0121-2494 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=614064457004 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/614064457004.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/movil en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=6140 Pedagogía y Saberes application/pdf Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Pedagogía y Saberes (Colombia) Num.50 |
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| spellingShingle | What is the Educational Task? Arousing the Desire for Wanting to Exist in the World in a Grown-up Way Gert Biesta Educación up ness grown teaching Education What is the Educational Task? Arousing the Desire for Wanting to Exist in the World in a Grown-up Way Gert Biesta Educación up ness grown teaching Education Discussions about education often focus on the purposes that should be achieved or the outcomes that should be produced. In this paper I approach the question of the purpose of education differently, by asking what the work of teachers and other educators should focus. The answer I propose is that this work is about arousing the desire in children and young people for wanting to exist in the world in what I refer to as a "grown-up" way. I explain my use of the idea of "grown-up-ness," where I argue that we should not think of this as the outcome of a developmental trajectory but as a way in which human beings can try to exist in and with the world. This suggests, as I explain, that central to the work of education is the interruption of ways in which children and young people are entirely self-centred and self-focused, thus turning them towards the world in which their existence as grown-up subjects can only take place. Education that is focused on this has a task to provide time, space and curricular forms through which children and young people can work "on" their grown-up-ness. And education needs to provide sustenance so that children and young people can be supported and nourished in their task of trying to exist in a grown-up way. 2019 artículo científico 0121-2494 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=614064457004 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/614064457004.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/movil en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=6140 Pedagogía y Saberes application/pdf Universidad Pedagógica Nacional Pedagogía y Saberes (Colombia) Num.50 |
| title | What is the Educational Task? Arousing the Desire for Wanting to Exist in the World in a Grown-up Way |
| topic | Educación up ness grown teaching Education |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=614064457004 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/614064457004.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/6140/614064457004/movil |