Renato Huarte Cuéllar (UNAM) 
Education’ as a word: philosophical approaches

‘Education’ is a word. Like all words, it implies a relationship with objects, ideas, etc. Analyzing the implications of naming any phenomenon ‘education’ implies philosophical standpoints. This session considers Émile Benveniste and his discussion with Jacques Derrida, to understand the philosophical implications of words and their naming of reality. Beyond ‘education’, are there other words that we can translate as education? Can paideia (Gk.) or hinuch (Hebrew) be translated as ‘education’? Barbara Cassin has used the term ‘untranslatables’ – words that need to be translated over and over. Examples from different philosophical traditions and languages will be provided. 

Renato Huarte Cuéllar holds a BA in Philosophy and Pedagogy, an MA in Philosophy of Science, and a PhD in Philosophy from Mexico’s National Autonomous University (UNAM).  He has been professor in the area of Theory, Philosophy and History of Education and Pedagogy since 2005.  He is responsible of the Research Group in Philosophy of Education at the School of Philosophy and Literature at UNAM.  Together with several colleagues in 2010 he founded the Latin American Association of Philosophy of Education (ALFE). He has been a Board Member of ALFE since 2010 and its President since 2015.

For further inquiries: Yuxin Su (yuxin.su.16@ucl.ac.uk).

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