Reflecting on the ethical responsibility of the educator as pedagogical reducer

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Robertson, Nicola (2026) Reflecting on the ethical responsibility of the educator as pedagogical reducer. Ethics and Education. ISSN 1744-9650 (https://doi.org/10.1080/17449642.2026.2635992)

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Abstract

Despite being a mainstay of continental educational discourse for centuries, the concept of pedagogical reduction has received only a little attention among Anglophone philosophers of education, although it is arguably a central feature of education. Inspired by the small, yet pioneering, body of work in this area, this paper aims to draw out, for an Anglophone audience, the as-yet unexplored ethical dimensions of pedagogical reduction as they are shaped by each of the discrete stages of the process – selection, simplification, and representation.

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