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ERIC Number: EJ1277450
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Oct
Pages: 23
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ISSN: ISSN-0309-8249
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Poetics of the Encyclopaedia: Knowledge, Pedagogy and Research Today
Lee, Soyoung
Journal of Philosophy of Education, v54 n5 p1237-1259 Oct 2020
This paper explores ways in which Roland Barthes' discussion of the encyclopaedia provides us with resources for thinking about education and research practice today. What Barthes addresses in his essay 'The Plates of the Encyclopedia' is a particular encyclopaedia, the "Encyclopédie" produced by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert, which was published in France between 1751 and 1772. This is commonly referred as the first of a form that we recognise as the encyclopaedia today. I begin with Barthes' analysis and critique of the "Encyclopédie." Barthes, writing in 1964, engages with the "Encyclopédie" as an iconic product of its time, seeing it as conditioned by and, in effect, reinforcing a particular way of experiencing the world. Next, I consider ways in which a parallel critique is pertinent today. I explore some current examples of encyclopaedic form in relation to education and educational research. The purpose of this is to examine the interplay between particular cultural products and their society, in which not only certain types of knowledge but also a certain conception of knowledge are produced and reinforced. So, it will not be the purpose of this paper to provide direct analysis or critique of the Enlightenment, or to provide a historical account of knowledge. Rather, what I am interested in is problematising a particular understanding of language and knowledge that arises through these cultural products, particularly with regard to educational inquiry. This lays the way for thoughts expressed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in "What is Philosophy?" which, as I shall try to show, are of help in furthering the analysis of the dominant research culture's use of such products and in imagining the task of education and research differently.
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Language: English
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