Todd, Sharon
(2009)
Universality and the Daunting Task of Cultural Translation: A
Response to Penny Enslin and Mary Tjiattas.
Journal of Philosophy of Education, 43 (1).
pp. 18-23.
ISSN 0309-8249
Abstract
I first want to thank Penny Enslin and Mary Tjiattas for offering a richly
textured discussion to which the opportunity of crafting a response gives
me great pleasure—on two counts. First, the paper addresses what I see,
along with the authors, to be a pressing problem for philosophy of
education and for the political orientation of education more generally,
namely the question and status of the universal for addressing injustices.
This problem, as Enslin and Tjiattas acknowledge, has become sharply
profiled within the pervasive talk of globalisation and current turns to
cosmopolitan thought, and it therefore deserves the serious thinking it has
received in their paper. As for the second source of my pleasure, Enslin
and Tjiattas’s desire to work toward a ‘qualified universalism’ is one for
which I have a great deal of sympathy, given that it is no longer possible to
think exclusively in ‘absolutist’ terms as though cultural practices were
irrelevant to the promotion of global justice. The paper builds rightly, in
my view, toward a reflective engagement with the terms upon which
justice can be reconceived.
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Article
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| Keywords: |
Universality; Daunting Task; Cultural; Translation; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
8550 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Sharon Todd
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| Date Deposited: |
02 Aug 2017 08:21 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Journal of Philosophy of Education |
| Publisher: |
Wiley |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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