Celem artykułu jest z jednej strony przedstawienie mechanizmu komodyfikacji i fetyszyzacji tożsamości, które, w warunkach opisywanej w literaturze przedmiotu instytucjonalizacji indywidualizacji oraz związanej z nią dominacji racjonalności neoliberalnej, wiążą się ze skoncentrowanym na budowaniu przedsiębiorczego „ja” procesem tożsamościowym. W artykule opiszę również wpływ, jaki mechanizm ten wywiera na edukację i przede wszystkim szkołę. Opierając się na literaturze przedmiotu, odniosę się do dwóch współcześnie identyfikowanych przez badaczy zjawisk: edukacjonalizacji/pedagogizacji oraz redukcji znaczenia szkoły przez koncentrację na kategorii „uczenia się”. Z drugiej strony celem artykułu jest przedstawienie alternatywy w myśleniu o edukacji i szkole, w ramach której edukacja oznacza proces de-subiektywizacji i wyprowadzania podmiotu z dominującej racjonalności, natomiast szkoła – zgodnie z etymologicznym pochodzeniem pojęcia – oznacza uwolniony od społecznej i ekonomicznej determinacji czas wolny. W kontekście opisanej diagnozy dominującej racjonalności oraz przedstawionej możliwej wobec niej alternatywy ulokowana jest podstawowa teza artykułu, mówiąca o konieczności przekroczenia „podmiotowego paradygmatu” myślenia o zmianie.
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The main purpose of this paper is to describe the mechanisms of commodification and fetishization of identity, which in the neoliberal, individualistic context, are tied with the process of the creation of entrepreneurial self. M My aim is also to describe how these processes function in schools and in the wider, educational context. Two phenomena, described by contemporary educational research – the educationalization/pedagogization, and the reduction of the importance of schools that comes with the popularity of the notion of “learning” – play important role in my analysis. M My second purpose is to present an alternative way of thinking about education – understood as a process of de-subjectivization, of leaving the dominant rationalities behind; and schools understood as places where people are free from the influence of social and economic factors and thus experience “free time”. I In this context I I locate the main thesis of the paper – about the necessity of breaking with the subject-centered paradigm of change.
Despite the growing popularity of discourse theory and critical analysis of interrelations between education and its social, political and cultural contexts, neither the “discursive” nor “linguistic” turn in social sciences are usually thought of as possible foundations for pedagogical practice. The aim of this paper is to review the possible educational applications of two critical discourse theories: Critical Language Awareness and Positive Discourse Analysis. Both of those perspectives aim to go beyond the purely research oriented modes of analysis, towards constructive and positive projects of critical language education. Thus, they may provide us with a foundation for a critically oriented pedagogy of language.
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the continuing relevance of some elements of Anton Makarenko’s pedagogical thought. My other aim is to reinterpret those elements in the light of contemporary theories of commonality and communal education. The category that is reinterpreted in relation to the modern theories of the production of the common and the new forms of being together that thus produced, is Makarenko’s notion of the “collective”. Based upon this, I propose an idea of a collectivizing pedagogy, that is a remedy for the current neoliberal delegitimization of all forms of common identity, and the latter’s effects such as incapability of imagining (and consequently teaching about) the possibility of a communal, solidary action.
This paper will address an issue that is not often discussed in the context of civic and democratic education – the shaping of political emotions. My main purpose is to outline pedagogical currents that are oriented towards cultivating the ability to identify with the suffering of the Other. This emotional identification is based on an ability to perceive structural processes that generate marginalisation and injustice and can serve as a basis for an affirmative, collective action. The thesis presented in this paper is that educational institutions should work towards fostering democratic and collective forms of subjectivity. Drawing on ideas from the existing literature I will discuss the political dimension of anger and the notion of critical pedagogy of compassion that are placed in a broader perspective of radically conceived solidarity.
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