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- Levinas’s philosophy gives educational theorists the conceptual tools to resist dominance and to rethink educational theory and practice in ways radically different from modern Western conventions.
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Feb 9, 2022 · A second, more foundational point with regard to the application of Levinasian ethics to our teaching and learning is that the encounter with the Other is essential to any real learning. In fact, welcoming of the Other is his definition of being taught.
- stephen.hancock@byuh.edu
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Jan 11, 2018 · This essay examines Levinas’s writings on education considering in particular how Levinas’s ethical subject emerges. The first part of the essay focuses on Levinas’s claim that we are in a crisis of humanism, a crisis that calls for a new subjectivity.
May 12, 2015 · His recent work systematically applies Levinas’s ethics to the commonplaces of education—teaching, learning, curriculum, and instruction—through an interesting analysis of the experiences of calling and inspiration (Citation 2014). His article in this issue, ‘The Temporal Transcendence of the Teacher as Other’, responds to Biesta’s ...
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Jul 23, 2006 · Some commentators have called Levinas’ work an ethics of ethics, others a meta-ethics, while still others have urged that his thought can accommodate many ethical theories, from intuitionism to rationalism (see below). However that may be, his work is in ongoing, critical dialogue with three philosophers: Husserl, Heidegger, and Hegel.
In his book, Joldersma claims that learning inspires the student to the call of justice, whereas teaching calls teachers to be responsible for students. He applies this analysis to argue that the curriculum, through teachers, encourages students to be responsible for the world revealed through disciplinary knowledge.
Pedagogy of the Other: A Levinasian Approach to the Teacher-Student Relationship. Clarence W. Joldersma. Calvin College. What conditions are present in the relation that creates the possibility of one person learning something from another?
Characteristically, Levinas’s philosophy can be read as an ontology as well as ethics, and his theory of the subject has been worked out as an ethics (Critchley, 2008). Levinas’s work has been the driving force leading to the ethical turn in postmodern and post-structural philosophy.
