The Rhetorical Education of Isocrates and the Exemplary in Teaching: Overcoming the “Learnification of Education”
This article argues that the rhetorical education of Isocrates can serve as a vital alternative to today’s dominating trend of outcome-based education, or what Biesta calls “the learnification of education.” According to Biesta, “the learnification of education” represents an individualising discour...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Danish |
| Published: |
Umeå University
2019-12-01
|
| Series: | Nordic Journal of Educational History |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/njedh/article/view/148 |
| _version_ | 1819177826127970304 |
|---|---|
| author | Lars Petter Storm Torjussen |
| author_facet | Lars Petter Storm Torjussen |
| author_sort | Lars Petter Storm Torjussen |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | This article argues that the rhetorical education of Isocrates can serve as a vital alternative to today’s dominating trend of outcome-based education, or what Biesta calls “the learnification of education.” According to Biesta, “the learnification of education” represents an individualising discourse separating the content, purpose and personal aspects of education. This article analyses “the learnification of education” primarily as a crisis of authority, with the political thinking of Hannah Arendt as a point of departure, suggesting that educational theory need to rediscover the roots of the didactical tradition in rhetorics. Thus the rhetorical education of Isocrates, based on examples and exemplary teaching, may rediscover an ancient conception of authority still relevant for our post-traditional and multicultural society. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-22T21:32:49Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-ed31a88ffdff4109b02df05316375f93 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2001-7766 2001-9076 |
| language | Danish |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-22T21:32:49Z |
| publishDate | 2019-12-01 |
| publisher | Umeå University |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Nordic Journal of Educational History |
| spelling | doaj.art-ed31a88ffdff4109b02df05316375f932022-12-21T18:11:51ZdanUmeå UniversityNordic Journal of Educational History2001-77662001-90762019-12-016210.36368/njedh.v6i2.148The Rhetorical Education of Isocrates and the Exemplary in Teaching: Overcoming the “Learnification of Education”Lars Petter Storm Torjussen0University of Bergen, NorwayThis article argues that the rhetorical education of Isocrates can serve as a vital alternative to today’s dominating trend of outcome-based education, or what Biesta calls “the learnification of education.” According to Biesta, “the learnification of education” represents an individualising discourse separating the content, purpose and personal aspects of education. This article analyses “the learnification of education” primarily as a crisis of authority, with the political thinking of Hannah Arendt as a point of departure, suggesting that educational theory need to rediscover the roots of the didactical tradition in rhetorics. Thus the rhetorical education of Isocrates, based on examples and exemplary teaching, may rediscover an ancient conception of authority still relevant for our post-traditional and multicultural society.http://journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/njedh/article/view/148rhetorical educationexemplary teachingauthority,outcome-based education |
| spellingShingle | Lars Petter Storm Torjussen The Rhetorical Education of Isocrates and the Exemplary in Teaching: Overcoming the “Learnification of Education” Nordic Journal of Educational History rhetorical education exemplary teaching authority, outcome-based education |
| title | The Rhetorical Education of Isocrates and the Exemplary in Teaching: Overcoming the “Learnification of Education” |
| title_full | The Rhetorical Education of Isocrates and the Exemplary in Teaching: Overcoming the “Learnification of Education” |
| title_fullStr | The Rhetorical Education of Isocrates and the Exemplary in Teaching: Overcoming the “Learnification of Education” |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Rhetorical Education of Isocrates and the Exemplary in Teaching: Overcoming the “Learnification of Education” |
| title_short | The Rhetorical Education of Isocrates and the Exemplary in Teaching: Overcoming the “Learnification of Education” |
| title_sort | rhetorical education of isocrates and the exemplary in teaching overcoming the learnification of education |
| topic | rhetorical education exemplary teaching authority, outcome-based education |
| url | http://journals.ub.umu.se/index.php/njedh/article/view/148 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT larspetterstormtorjussen therhetoricaleducationofisocratesandtheexemplaryinteachingovercomingthelearnificationofeducation AT larspetterstormtorjussen rhetoricaleducationofisocratesandtheexemplaryinteachingovercomingthelearnificationofeducation |