On Study: Giorgio Agamben And Educational Potentiality (new Directions In The Philosophy Of Education)
by Tyson E. Lewis /
2013 / English / Kindle, EPUB
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In an educational landscape dominated by discourses and practices
of learning, standardized testing, and the pressure to succeed,
what space and time remain for studying?
In an educational landscape dominated by discourses and practices
of learning, standardized testing, and the pressure to succeed,
what space and time remain for studying?
In this book, Tyson E. Lewis argues that studying is a
distinctive educational experience with its own temporal,
spatial, methodological, aesthetic, and phenomenological
dimensions. Unlike learning, which presents the actualization of
a student’s "potential" in recognizable and measurable forms,
study emphasizes the experience of potentiality, freed from
predetermined outcomes. Studying suspends and interrupts the
conventional logic of learning, opening up a new space and time
for educational freedom to emerge.
In this book, Tyson E. Lewis argues that studying is a
distinctive educational experience with its own temporal,
spatial, methodological, aesthetic, and phenomenological
dimensions. Unlike learning, which presents the actualization of
a student’s "potential" in recognizable and measurable forms,
study emphasizes the experience of potentiality, freed from
predetermined outcomes. Studying suspends and interrupts the
conventional logic of learning, opening up a new space and time
for educational freedom to emerge.
Drawing upon the work of Italian philosopher and critical
theorist Giorgio Agamben, Lewis provides a conceptually and
poetically rich account of the interconnections between
potentiality, freedom, and study. Through a mixture of
educational critique, phenomenological description, and
ontological analysis, Lewis redeems study as an invaluable and
urgent educational experience that provides alternatives to the
economization of education and the cooptation of potentiality in
the name of efficiency. The resulting discussion uncovers
multiple forms of study in a variety of unexpected places: from
the political poetry of Adrienne Rich, to tinkering classrooms,
to abandoned manifestos, and, finally, to Occupy Wall Street.
Drawing upon the work of Italian philosopher and critical
theorist Giorgio Agamben, Lewis provides a conceptually and
poetically rich account of the interconnections between
potentiality, freedom, and study. Through a mixture of
educational critique, phenomenological description, and
ontological analysis, Lewis redeems study as an invaluable and
urgent educational experience that provides alternatives to the
economization of education and the cooptation of potentiality in
the name of efficiency. The resulting discussion uncovers
multiple forms of study in a variety of unexpected places: from
the political poetry of Adrienne Rich, to tinkering classrooms,
to abandoned manifestos, and, finally, to Occupy Wall Street.
By reconnecting education with potentiality this book provides
an educational philosophy that undermines the logic of
learning and assessment, and turns our attention to the
interminable paradoxes of studying. The book will be key
reading for scholars in the fields of educational philosophy,
critical pedagogy, foundations of education, composition and
rhetoric, and critical thinking and literacy studies.
By reconnecting education with potentiality this book provides
an educational philosophy that undermines the logic of
learning and assessment, and turns our attention to the
interminable paradoxes of studying. The book will be key
reading for scholars in the fields of educational philosophy,
critical pedagogy, foundations of education, composition and
rhetoric, and critical thinking and literacy studies.
