Morten Timmermann Korsgaard is Associate professor of education at the department of Childhood, Education and Society, and chair of the research group Philosophical studies in education (PSE) at Malmö University.
His research is focused on the Philosophy of Education, Educational Theory and History, inclusive education, and the work of Hannah Arendt.
Today's lecture: Retuning education
Bildung and exemplarity beyond the logic of progress
While the ideals of economic and personal progress and growth are slowly destroying the planet we inhabit and its inhabitants along with it, education – often seen as the solution to this problem - is slowly being suffocated by the very same ideals.
Korsgaard argues that in order to move beyond this destructive logic, we must rethink, or retune if you will, the way we think of education.
Instead of seeing education as a process of growth and accumulation of whatever skills and competences are in vogue, we must see it instead as an encounter, a process of bringing into presence, both the subject matter and the student so that world and student can become acquainted.
In order to outline such a retuning we must retune the concepts of Bildung and exemplarity in a way that moves beyond both classical definitions of these and the logic of progress which has hitherto determined their usage.
The lecture will have two commentators
Odin Fauskevåg is associate professor at the department of pedagogy and lifelong learning at NTNU. He works with educational questions from a philosophical point of view. Fausevåg attempts to shed light on educational concepts and phenomena such as competence, digital technology, democracy, subjectivity and education based on readings by, among others, Hegel, Kant, Arendt, Skjervheim, Klafki and Taylor.
Torill Strand is a professor at the Department of Education at UiO. Her professional interests range from political philosophy of education to social epistemology, cosmopolitanism and semiotics. Strand works with ethical-political formation based on a critical reading of the French philosopher Alain Badiou.
Practical information
The lecture will be in English.
The lecture is organized by the research group Humanities Studies in Education (HumStud), as part of the lecture series in philosophy of education.
This is an open lecture, no registration is required.
There will be a small reception on the fifth floor after the lecture.
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Contact person: Elodie Guillemin