-Wrap-up of national educational news
-Review of Jacques Ranciere’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, the true story of Joseph Jacotot, a radical nineteenth century theorist of pedagogy. Ranicere seeks to introduce a new way of thinking about education, which challenges the notion that teaching necessarily involves a process whereby someone who knows moves someone who is ignorant gradually towards a higher state of learning. Ranciere , in line with Jacotot, proposes that we all possess an equal capacity to learn on our own – intelligence – and that instead of explicating quantities of knowledge a teacher need only reveal to a student this radical potential of their own intellect. He proposes that a method of teaching which takes this fundamental equality of intelligence as its point of departure will break down social hierarchies of intelligence that distinguish between those who know and those who are ignorant, hierachies which serve to support further inequalities between rich and poor, capitalist and worker, citizen and immigrant…
Find the .pdf file of the book here and emancipate your intelligence.
