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The (Un)bearable educational lightness of common practices: On the use of urban spaces by school children

dc.contributor.authorGomes, Elisabete Xavier
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-21T14:48:43Z
dc.date.available2020-07-21T14:48:43Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThe present paper is about the author’s current research on children’s education in urban contexts. It departs from the rising offer of programmes for school children in outof- school contexts (e.g. museums, libraries, science centres). It asks what makes these practices educational (and not just interesting, entertaining and/or audience building). Based on Biesta (2006a, 2010) theory of education, the author frames and analyses the educational characteristics of, and possibilities of articulating, in and out-of-school educational practices. This paper aims at understanding if the occasional outing from primary school premises promotes interruptions in the humanist foundations of school. In order to analyse relations between different institutions and professionals (to be) engaged in educational activities and programmes, No´voa (2002, 2009) essays will be brought to the discussion, namely his conception of the ‘Public Space of Education’—as a space where culture, education, arts, sports and leisure are shared responsibilities, and where diverse institutions are networked aiming towards societal pluralism. I argue for the possibility of using cities’ public spaces as contexts with a worldly quality to complexify children’s education. Nevertheless, I draw attention to the unbearable educational lightness that these practices may carry if they do not go beyond the praise of chance; as well as to their unsustainable weight if they perpetually repeat school’s normal orders and add up rational discourses.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.citationStudies in Philosophy and Education, 31(3), 289-302 Doi: 10.1007/s11217-012-9289-4pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11217-012-9289-4pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn00393746
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/7717
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlandspt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectPedagogy of interruptionpt_PT
dc.subjectPublic space of educationpt_PT
dc.subjectChildren’s educationpt_PT
dc.subjectUrban spacespt_PT
dc.titleThe (Un)bearable educational lightness of common practices: On the use of urban spaces by school childrenpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceNetherlandspt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage302pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue3pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage289pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleStudies in Philosophy and Educationpt_PT
oaire.citation.volume31pt_PT
rcaap.rightsrestrictedAccesspt_PT
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