Strategies of imitation
In the tradition of Enlightenment which we are successors of, education is constructed to quantitative knowledge, primarily to naming and attribution of things, and then to managing them. Handling terms, facts, definitions, provides one with authority and control over things. This knowledge is the r...
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description | In the tradition of Enlightenment which we are successors of, education is constructed to quantitative knowledge, primarily to naming and attribution of things, and then to managing them. Handling terms, facts, definitions, provides one with authority and control over things. This knowledge is the result of training, not education, and as such it is no more than taking control over, even manipulating with, things. The purpose of education is not a question of progress: it leads in reverse direction, towards its original meaning of mimesis. It is in imitating, in the manner of mimesis, that we find that qualitative knowledge which determines permanently every artistic, philosophical, pedagogical and educational work. |
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spelling | doaj.art-d89761d5e2084d98ae5611de050f4d7b2022-12-21T23:03:15ZengAkademija umetnosti Univerziteta u Novom SaduZbornik Radova Akademije Umetnosti2334-86662560-31082018-01-012018636452334-86661806036RStrategies of imitationRichter Marijan0Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za nastavničke studije, Zadar, HrvatskaIn the tradition of Enlightenment which we are successors of, education is constructed to quantitative knowledge, primarily to naming and attribution of things, and then to managing them. Handling terms, facts, definitions, provides one with authority and control over things. This knowledge is the result of training, not education, and as such it is no more than taking control over, even manipulating with, things. The purpose of education is not a question of progress: it leads in reverse direction, towards its original meaning of mimesis. It is in imitating, in the manner of mimesis, that we find that qualitative knowledge which determines permanently every artistic, philosophical, pedagogical and educational work.https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/2334-8666/2018/2334-86661806036R.pdfimitationmimesiseidosinnocent eyecreativitykalokagathia |
spellingShingle | Richter Marijan Strategies of imitation Zbornik Radova Akademije Umetnosti imitation mimesis eidos innocent eye creativity kalokagathia |
title | Strategies of imitation |
title_full | Strategies of imitation |
title_fullStr | Strategies of imitation |
title_full_unstemmed | Strategies of imitation |
title_short | Strategies of imitation |
title_sort | strategies of imitation |
topic | imitation mimesis eidos innocent eye creativity kalokagathia |
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