Intellectual emancipation as minimal humanism – The relevance of Jacques Rancière in business school teaching

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050762096954
Author(s):  
Mads Kogut ◽  
Morten Sørensen Thaning ◽  
Niklas Birksted
Keyword(s):  
School Environment ◽  
Business School ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Practical Relevance ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Teacher Authority ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

How might emancipatory teaching practices look like in the context of the business school, when the meaning of the subject of emancipation, the human being, has become unsettled? Our philosophical essay addresses this question by excavating Jacques Rancière’s conception of intellectual emancipation and showing its practical relevance for experiments with emancipatory teaching in a business school environment. Speaking from within a tradition where the meaning of human is irrevocably unsettled, Rancière, remarkably, still insists on an essential link between emancipation and humanism – although in a minimal version. First, we show why and how Rancière’s analyses of emancipation are united by the common concern to affirm such a minimal humanism. Thereafter, we describe how three features sets intellectual emancipation apart from social and aesthetic emancipation and makes it pertinent to take intellectual emancipation to school: The possibility and intention to emancipate others, the acknowledgement of the constructive role of reason herein, and the significance of teacher authority in doing so. Lastly, we move beyond and problematize Rancière’s clear conceptual account of intellectual emancipation by extracting three heuristic pedagogical devices from it and by recounting their confrontation with the messy details of our teaching practice at the business school.

Neformalni obrazovni kontekst i nastava prirode i društva u izmenjenom društvenom kontekstu – metodički pristup i značaj

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milana Pivaš
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Traditional Paradigm ◽  
Informal Context

Equally effective and demanding for all students, the traditional paradigm prevents independent acquisition of knowledge in a changed social context. Students should be able to independently research and analyze natural and social phenomena and processes. The role of the teacher is to create a complete picture, and not to interpret the content knowledge as biological, geographical, or historical. To avoid the passivity of students in the teaching process, it is necessary to choose an informal context and adapt it to the content being learned. In this paper, we have tried to point out the importance of an integrative approach in the non-formal educational context within the content of the subject Science and Social studies. We have presented the practical implication regarding natural and social contents. Lack of resources, time and interest of teachers are cited as obstacles to this way of working. In addition to pointing out the effective application of the informal context in a changed social context, we also provided suggestions for future research to improve teaching practice.

scholarly journals Asking for Narratives to be Recognized: The Moral of Histories

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Pierosara
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Collective Narratives ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
The Subject

This paper demonstrates an implicit connection between narrativity and recognition in the work of Paul Ricœur. This view is developed in three steps. First, it shows that the subject who calls for recognition demands that his or her own narrative be recognized. In order to be recognized, a story must be measured with history, particularly that of the victims. Second, from this perspective, the role of collective narratives is fundamental, because they represent the possibility to connect the intrinsic teleology of every human being to the collective attribution of significance. Finally, with the help of a little known essay by Ricœur, the metaphorical power of narrativity to configure meaning will be compared to the power of architecture to construct and to organize space. Both these fields give stories visibility and an ability to be recognized. 

scholarly journals Urban Subalterns in the Arab Revolutions: Cairo and Damascus in Comparative Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 865-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salwa Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Political Force ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
Political Configuration

AbstractThis paper investigates the role of urban subalterns both as participatory agents in the Arab revolutions and as mediating forces against revolutionary action. It argues that during revolutionary periods the positioning of subalterns as a political force should be understood in relation to their socio-spatial location in the urban political configuration. Looking at the protest movements in Cairo and Damascus, the paper examines the differentiated locations of subaltern actors in each to demonstrate how their positioning in relation to state and government has shaped their engagement in the revolutions. In Cairo, the mobilization of subaltern forces was anchored in spatialized forms of everyday interaction between popular forces and agents of government. These interactions were formative of urban subjectivities that entered into the making of “the people” as the subject of the Revolution. In Damascus, the configuration of the urban space and the Syrian regime's modes of control made it difficult for subaltern forces to mobilize on the same scale as in Cairo or to form a unified opposition. The regime instrumentalized socio-spatial fragmentation among subalterns, in effect turning some segments, as buffers for the regime, against others. In analytical terms, the paper underscores the common conceptual ground between the categories of “urban popular forces” and “urban subalterns.” This ground covers their socio-spatial positionality, their bases of action, and the factors shaping their political subjectivities.

Guildsmen, religious reform and the search for the common good: the role of the guilds in the early Reformation in Augsburg

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Broadhead
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Urban Commons ◽  
Capital Intensive

ABSTRACTThis article examines the forces that shaped the responses of the urban commons to the Reformation in Augsburg. Developing work by Blickle and others, it considers the extent to which traditional communal ideals were reflected in measures to construct a system of ‘sacral corporatism’. An examination of the attitudes of guildsmen towards communal values and institutions shows variation in their views, even on such basic points as the identification and imposition of the ‘common good’. Case studies show how predominantly poor weavers were attracted to the call to enforce communal principles as a means of defending their status and incomes. To this end they welcomed evangelical teaching, for it provided scriptural and ethical endorsements of corporate action. In contrast, members of the butchers' guild, who were involved in a capital intensive occupation, resisted communal restraints on their freedom to trade and make profits. The butchers' opposition to the Reformation rested more on their rejection of ‘sacral corporatism’, as advocated by reformers in Augsburg, than on support for Catholicism. Augsburg shows the significance of communal values in the urban Reformation, but it demonstrates that these were neither static nor uniformly accepted. On the contrary they were themselves the subject of dispute.

Conjonctions de subordination et adverbes conjonctifs «  focalisateurs  »

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-328
Author(s):  
Mireille Piot
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Relations ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Verb Phrase ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Syntactic Properties

SummaryIn this paper, we present a unified hypothesis about «focusing» conjunctional adverbs and subordinating conjunctions in French. A similar hypothesis is to be taken to hold at all romance languages as we argue after Piot (2003) mentioned above. At first, differences are to be observed between this case (with “focus”) and another case in which the same conjunctional items are purely conjunctions (coordinating or subordinating, but without “focus”). Then, we point out which are the common semantic and syntactic properties of the global “focus” operation related to all these items (parallelism between sentences and nominal phrases correlated by these conjunctional items, inclusion or union semantic relations between nominal phrases in some respects ensembles theory relations alike: the addition of syntactic-semantic specific items shares this inclusion or union relation). In particular, this study highlights, as a result, the role of the subject nature of the conjoined first sentence and the syntactic-semantic nature of the verb-phrase in the second sentence. Another study (to appear) will present the results about distinctions in this operation according to the particular significance of each different item.

scholarly journals Greek demons who murdered children

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladislava Igorevna Makeeva
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Sudden Infant ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Murdered Children

This article describes the Ancient Greek mythological characters who were attributed with murdering children: Lamia (Λάμια), Mormo (μορμώ) and Gello (γελλώ).The ssuperstitions associated with these demons remain in Greece to this day, although their images have undergone certain transformation. The object of this research is the mythological representations of the Ancient Greeks, while the subject is demons who murdered children. The goal of this article is to determine the role of children's horror stories in life of the Ancient Greek society. The author reviews the facts testifying to the existence of characters as Lamia, Mormo, Gello and Empusa in the Greek and Roman texts, as well gives characteristics to their images based on the comparative analysis. The conducted analysis reveals the common traits of the demons who murdered children: frightening appearance, combination of human and animal traits, ability to transform, identification with Hecate, as well as the story of the failed motherhood underlying the history of emergence of the demon. The key functions of these mythological characters consisted in explanation of the sudden infant and maternal mortality typical to the ancient times, as well as teaching children and adults a lesson. The first could be frightened with such stories, and the latter had to learn from the tale that demonstrates the harm of reckless following the temptations or refusal of fulfilling the prescribed social roles, socially acceptable behavior.

scholarly journals A NECESSARY REFLECTION ON: DISCIPLINE AND INDISCIPLINE IN THE CLASSROOM

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 843-853
Author(s):  
Livia Maria Franco Moreira dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
The Subject

This text deals with the issue regarding discipline and indiscipline in the context of teaching Brazilian education, the role of didactics in teacher education, as well as the role of school and family along with the issue that permeates teaching which is discipline and indiscipline. In this way, the text deals with a literature review on the subject, through an analytical descriptive dialectic, with the objective of identifying, analyzing and reflecting the issues of discipline and indiscipline. The discussion showed that indiscipline is one of the biggest and most serious problems in the school environment, as it has the contribution of the school, teachers, students and family. The undisciplined behavior of the student is present throughout the school trajectory and stage, thus indicating indiscipline as one of the deficiencies of the pedagogical process due to compromising the students' learning, affecting their emotional stability and the performance of the teachers and the student.

scholarly journals Interpretácia ako konštituent človeka, komunikácie a porozumenia / Interpretation as a Constituent of Human, Communication and Understanding

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juraj Dolník
Keyword(s):  
Major Part ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Fundamental Relation ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

AbstractThis paper is intended to be an introduction to the elucidation of the mutual understanding on the basis of the concept interpretation. The author raises the question about how is it possible to understand each other in spite of the fact that the mental world is immediately inaccessible. He argues that the possibility of the mutual understanding is an anthropological constant: the human being is set for understanding as a result of the evolutional mature of his interpretational ability. The major part of the text is an attempt at explanation of the role of interpretation in the process of shaping of the subject. It is argued that the germ of the subjectivity is the instinct for self-preservation which determines the fundamental relation of the human to the world: the world is seen through the lens of egocentrism. Showing that the possibility of the mutual understanding of egocentric subjects is a deceptive paradox helps us comprehend the anthropological foundation of this phenomenon. The final part of the text outlines the problem of the mutual understanding in the real interactional conditions and focuses the attention on three fundamental factors: ego, language, egoism

scholarly journals Lo que el historiador enseñante sabe y hace: Identificando habilidades docentes en practicantes de la Licenciatura en Historia

2013 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. Edgar Gómez Bonilla
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Professional Attitude ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Role Of Teachers ◽  
Relevant Work

El concepto “historiar” se traduce como “investigar”; esta es la explicación del por qué al historiador se le forma para la investigación histórica, aunque el escenario laboral y las oportunidades de contratación son otras, ya que sólo unos cuantos se incorporan en la actividad investigadora. El resto de los historiadores termina ejerciendo el rol de maestro en secundaria y/o bachillerato con conocimientos limitados sobre lo que implica la docencia, evidenciando dificultades para ejercer una labor pertinente, ya que la práctica descansa en una enseñanza rutinaria y tradicional. La presente investigación identifica las habilidades que los estudiantes de la Licenciatura en Historia, de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP), desarrollan en su práctica de la enseñanza desde la asignatura Práctica docente. El estudio es correlacional porque analiza la vinculación entre las dimensiones didáctica, disciplinaria, de contexto y estratégica en el periodo otoño 2007-primavera 2010. Estas dimensiones en su conjunto definen la actitud profesionalizante del historiador-enseñante y le permiten ser un individuo competente en el ámbito laboral, teniendo oportunidades tanto en la docencia, como en la investigación histórica, puesto que ambas líneas terminales están vinculadas permanentemente.AbstractThe concept of “narrating history” translates as “researching”, this is the explanation of why the historian gets a training in historical research, although the labour stage and recruitment opportunities are others, when only a few of them are included in research activities. The rest of historians end up assuming the role of teachers in secondary or high schools, with limited knowledge of what teaching implies, evidencing the difficulties to exercise a relevant work, since their practice rests on routine and traditional teaching. This research identifies the skills that students for the degree course in History of the ‘Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla’ (BUAP), put into action on their teaching duties from the subject: Teaching practice. The study is correlational (Hernández 2006:104-107) because it analyses the link between didactical, disciplinary, contextual and strategic dimensions, and has been carried out between autumn 2007 and spring 2010. These dimensions all together define the professional attitude of the historian-teacher and allow him/her to be a competent individual in the employment context, taking opportunities in teaching, without overlooking their training oriented towards historical research, because both terminal lines are linked permanently. Recibido: 09 de agosto de 2011Aceptado: 11 de noviembre de 2012

scholarly journals Little-known forerunner of «Turandot» of Giacomo Puccini – «Turanda» of Antonio Bazzini

2019 ◽  
pp. 290-308
Author(s):  
Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Commedia Dell'arte ◽  
Femme Fatale ◽  
Giacomo Puccini ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common

Тhe image of Turandot that has almost the greatest number of interpretations in a variety of genres, particularly, in opera, ushered in the masterpiece of G. Puccini. Still, rather little-known remain over ten of her opera forerunners among which a special place belongs to the opera of the king of verismo – the well-known violin virtuoso, composer, social-cultural figure, professor of Milano conservatoire Antonio Bazzini, in whose class G. Puccini was a student. His only opera ―Turanda‖ of 1867 became the subject of the study in this article whose objective is to outline the imagologeme of the cruel princess character in the interpretation of A. Bazzini. Using the imagologic methodologies oriented toward all-round outlining of the Other – particularly in the context of the oriental themes, the author proceeds from the comparative analysis that gives ground for determination of the common and distinctive traits in the interpretation of the heroine character in the context of the Italian and general European cultural paradigm. Created almost 100 years after Carlo Gozzi’s fiaba and 50 years before G. Puccini’s ―Turandot‖ A. Bazzini finds new unexpected dimensions of the work on such theme in the opera genre. Departing from the elements of commedia dell’arte that are the cornerstones in Gozzi’s favola, Bazzini, though staying in the sphere of the fairytale plot defines the genre of his opera as the ―Asian fantasy‖, gravitating despite the decorative-harem and state-imperial image of the Orient to the principles of the lyrical opera French models and looking at the lyrical drama of V. Bellini. The main lady character is the type of the femme fatale, who in the course of unwinding of the dramatic action acquires some sentimental traits, reinvents herself from the princess-killer to the loving lady. Bazzini’s eclecticism was manifested in the departure from the Chinese content and extension of the geocultural boundaries: the action takes place in Persia (Turandot’s ancestral homeland, whose combined prototype image is described in the poem of Nizami ―Seven Beauties‖), Prince Calaf becomes the Indian Prince Nadir, preserving the role of the lyrical-dramatic hero. Bazzinin refuses from the masks and instead brings in the new bright character – magician Ormut who represents the evil forces, for he is hopelessly in love with Turandot, inspires her to killings with the aid of sorcery. The exalted mystical-orgiastic scene of worshipping Ahriman is one of the best in the presentation of the spectacular-theatrical exotica. And though over a dozen of composers-romanticists attempted to adapt the character of Turandot, the heroine found her optimal embodiment in the aura of the high verism, one of the steps on the way to which can be regarded ―Turanda‖ of A. Bazzini.

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