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The many centres of education?: A plea for in-between thinking
Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Philosophy, Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, NL-3062 PA Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Malmö University, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Childhood, Education and Society (BUS). Via Univ Coll, Aarhus, Denmark.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8458-4810
2025 (English)In: Educational Philosophy and Theory, ISSN 0013-1857, E-ISSN 1469-5812, Vol. 57, no 8, p. 742-752Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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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.

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Routledge, 2025. Vol. 57, no 8, p. 742-752
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teacher-centred education, student-centred education, thing-centred education, Hannah Arendt
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-72913DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2024.2444426ISI: 001387609900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85214212207OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-72913DiVA, id: diva2:1924935
Available from: 2025-01-07 Created: 2025-01-07 Last updated: 2025-08-11Bibliographically approved

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