Description
Inoperative Learning
A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities
Theorizing Education Series
Author: Lewis Tyson
Language: EnglishKeywords
Inoperative Learning; Education; Dewey’s Early Work; Inoperative; Educational Logic; Learning; Nietzsche’s Gay Science; Lewis; Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology; Philosophy; Vocational Aptitude Test; Potentiality; Developmental Machine; Theory; Parodic Mimicry; Tyson E; Lewis; Kafka’s Short Story; Weak; Weak Philosophy; Jakob Von Gunten; Young Man; Anthropological Machine; Great Swimmer; Dual Machine; Student Perception Surveys; Measure Skill Acquisition; Good Life; Studious Play; Lather’s Work; Rote Assessments; Backward Momentum; Common Language; Creditor Debtor Relationship; John’s Answer
Publication date: 09-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 10-2017
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
Description
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Inoperative Learning embodies a weak philosophy of education. It does not offer a set of solutions or guidelines for improving educational outcomes, but rather renders taken-for-granted assumptions about the theory-practice coupling inoperative. By arguing that such logic reduces education to instrumental ends, this book presents a challenge to contemporary notions of education as outcomesbased, goal-directed learning. From the perspective of learning, the neutralization of progress, growth, and maturity would usually be seen as obstacles needing to be overcome on the path toward set goals. Yet Lewis argues that a serious investigation of inoperativity opens up possibilities that would be otherwise unavailable in a world fixated on the question of learning. In dialogue with philosophers (Agamben, Benjamin, and Esposito), authors (Kafka and Walser) and qualitative researchers (Lather), Lewis turns our collective attention to what remains when concepts such as learning, child development, teacher effectivity, and personal growth are left idle.
Inoperative Learning presents a radical rewriting of educational possibilities. It should therefore be of great interest to educational researchers and educational philosophers concerned with the question of alternative logics of education beyond learning. The book may also be of interest to theorists in the critical humanities that are engaged in education as a thematic concern in their research and classroom practices.
List of Figures Acknowledgements Preface (Fred Moten and Stefano Harney) 1. Inception 2. Divestment Interruption 1: Sopa d’EuropaInterruption 2: "Coming of John" 3. Impersonality Interruption 3: Berlin Chronicle 4. Inhumanity Interruption 4: Going Feral 5. Impropriety Interruption 5: "Bad Design" 6. Irresponsibility Interruption 6: "The Test" Interruption 7: "Absent Minded" Examiner 7. Ineffectiveness Interruption 8: A Comedic Sense of Teaching Interruption 6: "The Test" Interruption 7: "Absent Minded" Examiner 7. Ineffectiveness Interruption 8: A Comedic Sense of Teaching
Tyson E. Lewis is Associate Professor of Art Education at the University of North Texas.