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ERIC Number: EJ1358908
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Jun
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-2004
EISSN: EISSN-1741-5446
Heidegger's Hammer: Ontology, Aesthetics, and the Instrumental in Education
Szkudlarek, Tomasz
Educational Theory, v72 n3 p303-318 Jun 2022
In the context of the ongoing debate on the ontology of education, where instrumentally defined functions and aims are seen as external to what education is and the focus is on defining "the educational," Tomasz Szkudlarek explores a reverse route in an attempt to see, first, what is "the instrumental" before asking how it operates in education. He assumes that instrumentality may be an ontological phenomenon if we adopt a relational ontology where "things" are always and essentially related to other things, also functionally and instrumentally. To examine this path, Szkudlarek starts with Martin Heidegger's understanding of tools, also in its radicalized version proposed by Graham Harman, and contrasts their conceptions with the phenomenology of tools focusing on their aesthetic value. Through this juxtaposition, educational instrumentality appears as more complex and problematic than much of the current critique assumes, and tools appear as active and seductive elements of the educational.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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