Making Education Educational

• In Event: 14.041 - Integrating Philosophy Into Educational Practice

Abstract

This paper was initiated by questioning in what way teachers recognise their acts of recognising pupils? It is based on a deliberation of Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition vs. Paul Ricoeur’s text, The Course of Recognition. Through a deliberation we propose that mutual recognition may work as a possible foundation for the understanding of teaching and learning processes in education, if one acknowledges that a collective practice opens up possibilities for everyone to actively influence and to be influenced by a collective. Both texts (Honneth, 1995; Ricoeur, 2005) address recognition as a moral grammar of social practice, and in that respect, we argue, this theme cannot be overlooked in education or by education research.

Authors

• Marit Honerod Hoveid, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

• Halvor Hoveid, Norwegian University of Sceince and Technology