The impossible constellation: On the conceptual possibility of post-critical educational utopias

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Název: The impossible constellation: On the conceptual possibility of post-critical educational utopias
Autoři: Stefano Oliverio, Piotr Zamojski
Zdroj: Research in Education.
Informace o vydavateli: SAGE Publications, 2025.
Rok vydání: 2025
Témata: Educational utopia, Educational utopia, speculative fiction, post-critical pedagogy, utopia as thoughtexperiment, continental educational theory, post-critical pedagogy, continental educational theory, speculative fiction, utopia as thoughtexperiment
Popis: In this paper, we will take our cue from the metatheoretical question about the role of utopia within educational theory. In this endeavour, we will build upon some debates in the German and Italian contexts which have insisted that a “utopian vector” is a constitutive dimension of the modern discourse in educational theory and philosophy, to the extent that reflection on education is “autonomous” (but not independent) from other sources (such as the sciences of education). In this wake, by valorizing the idea of utopia as a thought experiment, we will explore in what sense science fiction, understood as speculative fiction, may represent a vehicle for educational theorising, and we will show how it operates both within the 'technical' and in the critical understanding of educational theory, Against this backdrop, we will zoom in on the postcritical understanding and investigate the differences in its take on utopia in comparison with both the scientific-technological views (such as Skinner’s) and the critical outlooks.
Druh dokumentu: Article
Jazyk: English
ISSN: 2050-4608
0034-5237
DOI: 10.1177/00345237251370539
Přístupová URL adresa: https://hdl.handle.net/11588/1008815
https://hdl.handle.net/11588/1008815
https://doi.org/10.1177/00345237251370539
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Přístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....c5b814a1b3abf9c484782836c66d5504
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:In this paper, we will take our cue from the metatheoretical question about the role of utopia within educational theory. In this endeavour, we will build upon some debates in the German and Italian contexts which have insisted that a “utopian vector” is a constitutive dimension of the modern discourse in educational theory and philosophy, to the extent that reflection on education is “autonomous” (but not independent) from other sources (such as the sciences of education). In this wake, by valorizing the idea of utopia as a thought experiment, we will explore in what sense science fiction, understood as speculative fiction, may represent a vehicle for educational theorising, and we will show how it operates both within the 'technical' and in the critical understanding of educational theory, Against this backdrop, we will zoom in on the postcritical understanding and investigate the differences in its take on utopia in comparison with both the scientific-technological views (such as Skinner’s) and the critical outlooks.
ISSN:20504608
00345237
DOI:10.1177/00345237251370539