ERIC Number: EJ1374378
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
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ISSN: ISSN-1744-9642
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Theorizing Aesthetic Injustice in Democratic Education: Insights from Boal and Rancière
Ethics and Education, v17 n4 p388-402 2022
This article examines some aspects of the entanglement between aesthetic injustice and epistemic injustice, paying special attention to how aesthetic injustice can be resisted in the classroom. The article brings into conversation Boal's notion of aesthetic injustice with Rancière's work on the overlapping of aesthetics and politics to suggest that a truly democratic education must work on the level of senses, so that students learn how to identify and resist aesthetic injustice in their everyday lives. Specifically, it is argued that the democratic potential of education is inextricably linked to resisting aesthetic and epistemic injustice in practice. The main point of the article is that resistance to aesthetic injustice in the classroom operates as an instance of politics that mobilizes struggle against oppression. In this sense, the nature of political work conducted in democratic education is to undo the oppressive distribution of the senses.
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Epistemology, Justice, Politics of Education, Democracy, Educational Theories, Teaching Methods, Power Structure
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