Rethinking the Philosophy of Education Essay -- Teaching Education Res

Rethinking the Philosophy of EducationABSTRACT Philosophy is a special focusing of signifying the world. If philosophy is the place where the question is radical, then the task of the philosophy of rearing is to turn education into a problem through the practice of criticism. With this in mind we ask, Is teaching mathematical? What can really be transmittable? If man, as psychoanalysis indicates, is constituted as a desirous being, encyclopaedism is possible only if desire is present. This interweaving of philosophy and psychoanalysis leads us to calculate the impossibility of education in terms of three questions. (1) Is it possible or desirable to transmit the culture in its entirety? (2) Is learning possible without desire? (3) Could any pedagogical syllabus cover for lack in the other? In the field of teaching, no one should be inhis place anywhere (I quieten down with thiscontinuous shifting if more or less day I found myplace, I would not even affect to teach, Iwould ab solutely give up)Roland Barthes, Lobvie et lobtus.We are support a moment of deep, historical mutation, in which traditional meanings are dissolving. This makes it essential to re-think the certainties which the essentialist and totalizing Modern conception has crystallized to question them from the standpoint of the crossroads at which this age of postmodernism has placed us. But Modernity has not been a homogenous process some new routes have been opened and they allow us to question those truths. Rousseau, Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Foucault and many others enable todays reflexion taking other distinguishable standpoints. This is what we will try to do in relation to education.Philosophy is a special way of signifying the world and turning reality... ...ndiscipline, failure, maladjustment.In a multiple, globalized, changing world, subject to deep, social unfairness, the philosophy of education must question scene in order to keep on resisting, in order to hardihood to thi nk the unthinkable and must prosecute the underground task of unmask of the nietzschean mole.Notes(1) F. Kafka, Carta al padre, Nuevomar, Mxico, 1983. p.26-27.(2) M. Heidegger, Qu significa pensar?, Nova, Buenos aires, 1958, p. 20.(3) I. Bergman, Las mejores intenciones, Tusquets, Mxico, 1993.(4) J. Lacan, El Seminario 6. El deseo y su interpretacin, gives, Buenos Aires, 1995. (5) A. S. Neil, Summerhill. Un punto de vista radical sobre la educacin d elos nios, Fondo de Cultura Econmica, p. 20. (6) A. Puiggrs, Volver a educar. El desafo de la enseanza argentina a finales del siglo XX, Ariel, 1995, p. 95