The staged cage? Education, reality, and "illusions" of freedom : a dialogue
Robertson, Nicola and Prajapati, Vijayita and Chen, Yueling; (2024) The staged cage? Education, reality, and "illusions" of freedom : a dialogue. In: Education of a Free Society. Peter Lang, Lausanne. (In Press)
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Abstract
Inspired by the wit and artistry displayed by Paul Feyerabend in Three Dialogues on Knowledge (1991), this chapter is presented in a dialogue format in which the three interlocutors participate in a hypothetical conversation on the concepts of reality, education, and freedom. Central to this conversation is the model of a staged representation of reality, used perhaps unconsciously by both artists and scientists, that Feyerabend introduces in Conquest of Abundance (1999). Using the backdrop of contemporary political unrest as a tinderbox, the speakers begin with a discussion on Feyerabend’s stage model, before embarking on a journey to consider how this could relate to education and, furthermore, how it might tie in with notions of freedom and what a free society might look like, if such a thing could exist at all.
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 88583 Dates: DateEvent2024Published2024Accepted1 November 2022SubmittedSubjects: Education Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Institute of Education > Education Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 27 Mar 2024 15:13 Last modified: 08 Apr 2024 14:23 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/88583