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A Levinasian Ethics for Education’s Commonplaces: Between Calling and Inspiration

Part of the The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137415493

ISBN: 978-1-349-49177-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Sep 18, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Joldersma, Clarence W.

Pages: 1 –6

[The introduction sets the stage by introducing the difference between education and schooling, and between Levinas’s idea of ethics and other uses of the term. It explains the purpose of the book as an extended critique of schooling as currently imagined, especially in a globalizing age. It...
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Chapter 2Calling and Inspiration

Joldersma, Clarence W.

Pages: 7 –21

[This chapter develops Levinas’s idea of the ethical as the structural call to responsibility for the other’s good. I first develop an idea of transcendence, especially as relates to what I term ‘time immemorial’ and ‘time unforeseen.’ I concretize this by elaborating two types of indirect...
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Chapter 3Learning

Joldersma, Clarence W.

Pages: 22 –42

[This chapter develops a deeper understanding of the student and learning. By recasting the student’s subjectivity in terms of a deep relation to the teacher as other, it suggest that the learning process involves welcoming an external disturbance, something the chapter develops as the...
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Chapter 4Teaching

Joldersma, Clarence W.

Pages: 43 –60

[A parallel to the previous chapter, this one addresses teaching and the teacher. It develops the Levinasian framework in terms of the teacher’s subjectivity, traditionally construed as an autonomous subject embodying rationally developed disciplinary knowledge. Below that autonomy, the...
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Chapter 5Curriculum

Joldersma, Clarence W.

Pages: 61 –88

[This chapter addresses the curriculum using the Levinasian ethics developed earlier. It first articulates the representational model of knowledge typically connected to an understanding of curricular content and then reinterprets this within a Levinasian frame. The analysis suggests that the...
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Chapter 6Institutions

Joldersma, Clarence W.

Pages: 89 –111

[This chapter addresses the institutional character of education. Here a Levinasian framework reveals that institutionalization is both a limitation on, and a concretization of, positively valorized educational experiences. In particular the analysis shows that formal organization is an important...
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Chapter 7Conclusion

Joldersma, Clarence W.

Pages: 112 –117

[The book concludes with a short chapter that brings together the ethical orientations of the commonplaces developed in previous chapters. The conclusion explains how the commonplaces interact for education to emerge, and reiterates that it emerges most fully when schooling’s everyday activities...

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