Todd, Sharon
(2004)
What’s the Use of a Teacher?
Philosophy of Education Yearbook.
pp. 254-257.
ISSN 8756-6575
Abstract
Most of us have experienced at some time that dreadful feeling of being used.
No more than a pawn in another’s strategic game, we feel manipulated, taken
advantage of, and somehow betrayed. It is as if in being used we are no longer
subjects, but objects of someone else’s will and intent. When others use us as means
to their ends, we feel there is no shared moral ground, no intersubjective possibility;
it is as if our very sense of who we are vanishes into the instrumentality by which
the other defines us. Paradigmatic of immorality, then, why is using others at all
useful to education?
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Article
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| Keywords: |
Use; Teacher; Education; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
8533 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Sharon Todd
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| Date Deposited: |
01 Aug 2017 11:52 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Philosophy of Education Yearbook |
| Publisher: |
Philosophy of Education Society |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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