O'Donnell, Aislinn
(2018)
Experimentation in Institutions: Ethics, Creativity,
and Existential Competence.
Studies in Philosophy and Education, 37 (1).
pp. 31-46.
ISSN 0039-3746
Abstract
The existential, experiential, ethical, pathic and pre-pathic dimensions of education
are essential for the creative composition of subjectivities in institutional spaces, yet
educational research and policy tend increasingly to privilege technical discourses and
prescriptive approaches both when evaluating ‘what is effective in education’ and when
determining educational policy. This essay explores those aspects of the educational
experience and educational institutions that are often felt and sensed pre-cognitively by
students, parents and teachers, but are seldom given further elaboration or articulation in
educational research. We will reflect on what is meant by the experience of education and
experience in education, including the struggles to make sense of or understand something,
the surprises that strike pre-reflectively, and the ways in which such moments are noticed,
pursued, and explored rather than reflexively ‘evaluated’. We then explore the idea of
experimentation in institutions, in particular in relation to the range of concepts that Jean
Oury introduces in order to move our attention and awareness to questions of experience,
existence, atmosphere, and the pathic—the way in which we undergo, sense and participate
in the world prior to cognition and the desire for mastery and control of our encounters.
Finally, we address the question of the ethics of institutions.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Creativity; Experimentation; Educational experience; Institution; Existential
competence; Singularity; Ethics; Jean Oury; Pathic; Guattari; Deleuze |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
11416 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-017-9572-5 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof Aislinn O'Donnell
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| Date Deposited: |
23 Oct 2019 17:07 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Studies in Philosophy and Education |
| Publisher: |
Springer Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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