Why still education? Emancipation and/or Education: Challenges and Frictions

Abstract

Book of Abstracts of the annual conferences Why still education? presents a collection of presentations as an open forum for development and reflection on educational strategies, which both open the space for the exchange of experiences and knowledge and encourage challenging of the existing educational practices on the topic: Emancipation and/or Education: Challenges and Frictions. The relation between emancipation and education is fraught with tensions. Even though we are the inheritors of the emancipatory potential of the Enlightenment, never before have these potentials been under such rigorous critical scrutiny as from various intellectual traditions of the second half of 20th century, such as postcolonial studies, poststructuralist thought, feminist critique, etc. But precisely because the classic emancipatory ideal became outdated, there is a great need for rethinking and rearticulating the idea of emancipation. We want to question whether, and to what extent, in rethinking emancipation, the role and the aim of education must be rethought as well.