Barrow, Giles
(2022)
Soil, Soul & Society
in the Educational Encounter.
PhD thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
The study sets out a vision of education that is rooted in the importance of
connection, existentially, ecologically and in terms of community. The work
opens with a critique of what I refer to as product-orientated education which I
suggest is no longer sufficient for current times and context. I argue that such
a view of education is problematic and especially in a wider economic culture
that valorises growth, autonomy and freedom.
The thesis is interested in developing an additional view of education that is
based on encounter which is orientated to soil, soul and society. The intention
is to discover what are the implications for the teacher, student and education
itself, when connection with these three dimensions become the focus of the
educational task. In doing so I pay attention to emancipation, homonomy and
sufficiency, the experiences of arrival, liminality and harvest, in relation to
education.
Alongside the philosophical envisioning of education, I weave a range of
narrative materials, the central one being concerned with a personal education
experience which serves to illuminate much of the theoretical discussion.
However, the importance of story has broader implications for the study in
terms of my research methodology. Vocative text, narratives from both formal
and informal educational contexts are incorporated throughout as a way of
breaking into, or opening up, the phenomenological terrain of education which
seeks reconnection with soil, soul and society.
| Item Type: |
Thesis
(PhD)
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| Keywords: |
Soil; Soul & Society; Educational Encounter; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
16749 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
28 Nov 2022 12:37 |
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| Use Licence: |
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