Redeeming Education after Progress: Composing Variations as a Way Out of Innovation Tyrannies                         

Bianca Thoilliez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

5.30-7.15 pm

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At a time of pedagogical exhaustion, this article imagines ways to spare education from its unaccomplished promises and work towards possible futures. But how can this be done when there is no longer inherited faith in history as progress? The alternative now offered is what I will describe as the “innovation paradigm”: what we are and what is in place is unsatisfactory and must be changed. This powerful narrative has been absorbed into mainstream ways of thinking. Would it not be more pedagogically productive to speak of “variation” instead of “innovation” as a potential path towards redeeming education after progress?

Bianca Thoilliez is Associate Professor at the Department of Pedagogy at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). In July 2019 she was appointed Visiting Professor of the Faculty of Education at the Edge Hill University, UK. She has served as elected Board Member of the International Network of Philosophers of Education (INPE) for the period 2018-2022 and has recently been elected Co-convenor of Network 13 on Philosophy of Education at the European Educational Research Association (EERA). Her most recent publications in English include: “Conserve, pass on, desire. Edifying teaching practices to restore the publicness of education”, Revista de Educación, 395 (2022), 61-83.

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