To Know Is Not Important: Ivan Illich and Jacques Rancière’s Relational Pedagogy

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Abstract

This paper builds on the writing of Illich and Ranciere to develop an emancipatory pedagogy that is less concerned with dispensing knowledge than with fostering relationships of eqaulity between learners.

Author

• Matthew X. Curinga, Adelphi University