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Peer reviewedChild, Mark; And Others – Educational Theory, 1995
Examines ethics in relation to postmodernism, arguing that ethics, subsumed in the ontology of situatedness, is problematic in education and could encourage reincarnation of the violence postmodernism seeks to overcome. Levinas's work is used to argue that ethics cannot be subsumed by ontology but rather precedes ontology, highlighting autonomy…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Higher Education
