Yaseen Younus Vally
201321397
May 17, 2015
Equality and emancipation in education
In this essay I will be considering emancipation as a motive for education by investigating and acknowledging the theory of Jacques Ranciere. There are a few themes that present itself in Ranciere’s philosophy of the ignorant schoolmaster. I will outline three main themes of Jacques Ranciere, the ignorant schoolmaster, and explain how an educator can promote emancipator learning. The objective of emancipatory learning is to free learners from the feeling that bound their possibilities and control over their lives and to move them to take action to bring about political and social change. The three themes that will be discussed are emancipation, explication and …show more content…
Jacotot mentions that there are two wills and two intelligences in his classroom. The wills are the students and Jacotot. On the other hand, the intelligences are the students and the books. Students perhaps need to pursue the teachers will, who guides them around the subject. Stultification arises when the learners intelligences are associated with the teachers, when they have to depend on the master to explain what they have learned. On the contrary, we therefore have emancipation. The teacher, educator, schoolmaster, master, the wise, etc are the ones who emancipates. Ranciere speculates that the nature of the relations among students, teachers, and educational materials is pivotal to an emancipatory education. I acknowledge Ranciere’s beliefs that the only way to emancipate is when intelligence obeys only itself even if its ‘will’ obeys another will. Ranciere brings up the concept of “universal teaching” and he says it has always been in existence, alongside explication. Universal teaching, according to Ranciere is when someone learns something by himself without a master explicator. Jacotot’s students learned using their own procedure, not his. In the end, it resulted that they were able to learn French, using the oldest method in the book, universal …show more content…
The traditional view of masters is to “explicate”. Explicate is defined as a way of explaining something, making it more comprehensible for students in our case. When Jacotot had delivered a book, the Telemaque, to his students and asked them to learn the French text. Surprisingly he discovered that the learners managed this demanding task. The students began the foreign language and understood gradually without an explication. The questions raised as to why do the students manage this challenging task as well as French could have done. Were all men capable of gaining knowledge and understanding without the presence of explication? Jacotot/Ranciere raised the question as to why were the teachers explications needed. I agree to Ranciere’s beliefs that explication hampers learning by deceiving the expedition that the student is able to make. Teachers who rely on explication accidently without being aware are creating a child who cannot do without the explications of a master. This creates a world of superior intelligence and a inferior one. Ranciere goes on to say that all people are competent enough to learn without any explication. He supports this by pointing out that we have all acquired our mother tongues without explication. Learners learn, repeat, and relate, and universally all people grow up able to understand their parents with a teachers presence. So ultimately why do we assume this kind of intelligence
201321397
May 17, 2015
Equality and emancipation in education
In this essay I will be considering emancipation as a motive for education by investigating and acknowledging the theory of Jacques Ranciere. There are a few themes that present itself in Ranciere’s philosophy of the ignorant schoolmaster. I will outline three main themes of Jacques Ranciere, the ignorant schoolmaster, and explain how an educator can promote emancipator learning. The objective of emancipatory learning is to free learners from the feeling that bound their possibilities and control over their lives and to move them to take action to bring about political and social change. The three themes that will be discussed are emancipation, explication and …show more content…
Jacotot mentions that there are two wills and two intelligences in his classroom. The wills are the students and Jacotot. On the other hand, the intelligences are the students and the books. Students perhaps need to pursue the teachers will, who guides them around the subject. Stultification arises when the learners intelligences are associated with the teachers, when they have to depend on the master to explain what they have learned. On the contrary, we therefore have emancipation. The teacher, educator, schoolmaster, master, the wise, etc are the ones who emancipates. Ranciere speculates that the nature of the relations among students, teachers, and educational materials is pivotal to an emancipatory education. I acknowledge Ranciere’s beliefs that the only way to emancipate is when intelligence obeys only itself even if its ‘will’ obeys another will. Ranciere brings up the concept of “universal teaching” and he says it has always been in existence, alongside explication. Universal teaching, according to Ranciere is when someone learns something by himself without a master explicator. Jacotot’s students learned using their own procedure, not his. In the end, it resulted that they were able to learn French, using the oldest method in the book, universal …show more content…
The traditional view of masters is to “explicate”. Explicate is defined as a way of explaining something, making it more comprehensible for students in our case. When Jacotot had delivered a book, the Telemaque, to his students and asked them to learn the French text. Surprisingly he discovered that the learners managed this demanding task. The students began the foreign language and understood gradually without an explication. The questions raised as to why do the students manage this challenging task as well as French could have done. Were all men capable of gaining knowledge and understanding without the presence of explication? Jacotot/Ranciere raised the question as to why were the teachers explications needed. I agree to Ranciere’s beliefs that explication hampers learning by deceiving the expedition that the student is able to make. Teachers who rely on explication accidently without being aware are creating a child who cannot do without the explications of a master. This creates a world of superior intelligence and a inferior one. Ranciere goes on to say that all people are competent enough to learn without any explication. He supports this by pointing out that we have all acquired our mother tongues without explication. Learners learn, repeat, and relate, and universally all people grow up able to understand their parents with a teachers presence. So ultimately why do we assume this kind of intelligence