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Publication Date: 2025
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The Many Centres of Education? A Plea for "In-Between Thinking"
Julien Kloeg1; Morten Timmermann Korsgaard2
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v57 n8 p742-752 2025
In this paper, we argue that the attempts to centre education in one of its three constitutive aspects that have long determined the discourse on the purpose and aims of education run the risk of one-sidedness. Theories of student-centred education have been in vogue for many centuries now, having been born out of a polemic against teacher-centred education which focuses on knowledge transfer. In turn, recent thing-centred or world-centred accounts of education polemicize against student-centred accounts and their privileging of individual learning processes. However, each side of this multifaceted polemic is one-sided in its own way, and this has held back not only theories of education, but also educational practice. We argue that educational theorising that is not attentive to all three aspects and dimensions of educational practices -- teacher, student, and world -- will ultimately lead to a poorer understanding of the purpose and aims of education. Here, we argue with Hannah Arendt that educational love must be polyamorous.
Descriptors: Role of Education, Educational Philosophy, Student Centered Learning, Transfer of Training, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Learning Theories, Educational Practices, Individualized Instruction
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Author Affiliations: 1Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; 2VIA University College, Aarhus, Denmark & Faculty of Education and Society, Malmö University, Sweden