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ERIC Number: EJ1385646
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1744-9642
EISSN: EISSN-1744-9650
Playing It by Ear: Potential as an Improvisatory Practice
Herring, Catherine
Ethics and Education, v18 n1 p138-150 2023
This paper explores the concept of potential through a Deleuzean lens and argues that what is commonly understood as potential is often confused with possibility. It moves through four parts: an introduction exploring the language and context in which potential is ordinarily used in order to uncover underlying presuppositions; the next section explores key concepts from "Difference and Repetition"--namely the Dogmatic Image of Thought, Virtuality and Actuality--to illuminate ways in which a more nuanced concept of potential might be understood, arguing that it is a creative process, rather than a fixed characteristic. Next, it explores how improvisation is a way in which potential can be experienced, before finally considering how changes to education practice- specifically a move towards a more mechanised, digitally-orientated world- might be wholly irreconcilable with potential as a creative process of encountering, and risks a much more impoverished concept that is liable to concretion.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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