philosophy for children, learnification, intelligent adaptive systems and racism – a response to gert biesta

Authors

  • darren chetty University College London Institute of Education

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2017.30014

Keywords:

philosophy for children, learnification, community of inquiry, racism, reasonablenes

Abstract

Gert Biesta presented at the 2017 ICPIC conference in Madrid and published his paper in this Special Issue. In this short paper I attempt to bring into conversation his presentation, P4C practice, and work on racism and the Community of Inquiry. I do so by asking two main questions: 1) Is P4C an example of what Biesta terms  ‘The Learnification of Education’? 2) Does the Community of Inquiry produce ‘Intelligent Adaptive Systems’? In so doing, I attempt to open up for further contributions an inquiry into the responsibilities of the teacher, particularly in conditions of continuing racial inequality and the extent to which the Community of Inquiry approach encourages participants to ask ‘is this an environment worth adapting to?’ I consider this question with reference to Matthew Lipman’s notion of ‘reasonableness’, Nicholas Burbules’ phrase ‘the hegemony of reasonableness’ and Gert Biesta’s notion of ‘grown-up-ness’.

 

Author Biography

darren chetty, University College London Institute of Education

Darren is a doctoral candidate and Teaching Fellow at UCL Institute of Education. He taught in London primary schools for twenty years.

 

His research focuses on Philosophy for Children, Multiculturalism and Racism. He was awarded the 2013 Award for Excellence by the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC) for his paper ‘The Elephant in the Room: Picturebooks, Philosophy for Children and Racism.’

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Published

2017-09-08

How to Cite

chetty, darren. (2017). philosophy for children, learnification, intelligent adaptive systems and racism – a response to gert biesta. Childhood & Philosophy, 13(28), 471–480. https://doi.org/10.12957/childphilo.2017.30014

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 28 (2017): sep./dec.

Section

dossier

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