Thinking About Educational Time With Hägglund and Levinas

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fifteen
  In Roundtable Session: Orienting a Life: Time and Perspective (Table 14)

Abstract

This paper explores the concept of time in education. It argues that the neoliberal capitalist construct of time as a resource to be deployed in service of labor—ever-accelerating—has permeated education with implications for curriculum, teaching, and learning. To slow the effects of neoliberal capitalism in schools requires a reconsideration of time that permits both different understandings of how time is encountered and different values orienting how one spends one’s time. Using Hägglund’s argument for finitude and Levinas’s idea of time as a gift, the paper articulates the philosophical rationale and pedagogical implications for making the most of one’s educational time.

Author

• Lana Parker, University of Windsor
  Presenting Author