POSLUŠNA BIĆA: O PEDAGOGIJI KAO PRAKSI ETIKE BRIGE
OBEDIENT BEINGS: ON PEDAGOGY AS A PRACTICE OF ETHICS OF CARE

Summary/Abstract: Many authors point out that it is necessary to reinvent the meaning of human education, which in WEIRD societies is based on the thesis of man as homo economicus. The neoliberal educational agenda is primarily anthropocentric in orientation, based on the idea of autonomous individuals, who primarily develop competencies in the process of education, raising their own and national economies’ competitiveness. Academic and educational (in the classical sense of caracter education) goals are strongly polarized, which is particularly visible in the neglect of social, emotional and moral values in the curricula. In this regard, care and love, as constitutive pedagogical practices, are further banished from contemporary pedagogical theories. This can be manifested in specific impersonal professionalism in the educational context, in the abolition of physicality and emotionality in learning and pedagogical interactions, and in care-less educational policies. The result of these specific practices is an onto-epistemic injustice that permeates all aspects of banking and apersonally understood processes of education. As a kind of counter-narrative, we consider the question of love and the ethics of care/caring with as a new democratic ideal that could revitalize and re-establish education as an event of meeting everyone with everyone, and with themselves.

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