Education's Autonomy

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Since Dewey’s statement on autonomous education in 'The sources of a science of education', scholars raised questions and calls that resonate it. However, education’s autonomy is still under-theorized. Therefore, the objects of the proposed symposium are to address questions about education’s autonomy and to advance a more comprehensive framework for it. This symposium features five paper authors and two discussants who together are familiar both with Continental and Anglo-American tendencies, and have experience working in a variety of political and social contexts. As such, the symposium offers AERA participants both thought provoking and contextual ideas about the meaning, role, and place of education in society. The discussants are prominent and renowned scholars who are leading figures in the proposal's topic.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Philosophical Studies in Education

Chair

• Doron Yosef-Hassidim, Lakehead University

Papers

• Advancing Education's Autonomy Through Looking Educationally at Philosophy - Doron Yosef-Hassidim, Lakehead University

• Education's Nonautonomy: The One-Dimensional, De-Sublimated Wrecking Ball of Technocratic Schooling - Matthew J. Hayden, Drake University; William Harman, Lewis-Clark State College

• What Is Educational About Education? The Distinctiveness of Education - Trevor Paul Norris, Brock University

• Searching for an Autonomous Discipline of Education - Herner Saeverot, Western Norway University, Norway

• Formative Autonomy: The Arts as an Agôn of Difference - John Baldacchino, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Response to the Symposium on Education's Autonomy - Natasha Levinson, Kent State University

Discussants

• Natasha Levinson, Kent State University

• Gert Biesta, University of Edinburgh