From The Ignorant Master to The Initiator: school form and intellectual emancipation
By narrating the intellectual adventure of Jacotot, Rancière brushes the story against the grains - resorting to the Benjaminian metaphor -, echoing a voice that seemed condemned to oblivion. This text aims at exposing the ways in which Jacotot opposes a stultifying master to an emancipating one, wh...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Educação & Realidade |
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| Online Access: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/educacaoerealidade/article/view/91817 |
| Summary: | By narrating the intellectual adventure of Jacotot, Rancière brushes the story against the grains - resorting to the Benjaminian metaphor -, echoing a voice that seemed condemned to oblivion. This text aims at exposing the ways in which Jacotot opposes a stultifying master to an emancipating one, who verifies in the present the equal capacity of everyone to understand the works of human intelligence. In face of this dichotomy, I propose an intermediate image: the master as an initiator, for whom an educational process committed to the equality principle cries out for both the intellectual emancipation and the intergenerational transmission of a legacy of symbolic experiences that provides durability to a world of historical achievements. |
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| ISSN: | 0100-3143 2175-6236 |