The ambivalences of desire in education: Paths of pedagogical reflexivity

Journal title EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Author/s Marta Ilardo
Publishing Year 2020 Issue 2020/2 Language Italian
Pages 12 P. 383-394 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ess2-2020oa9493
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Previews studies reflect around the concept of desire as a fundamental principle of education. Particularly interesting is Burch’s (2013) thesis, which argues that desire should be reconsidered as the union of symbolic and creative values from which to rethink "the hope of a democratic renewal" of the educational experience. Quite the opposite, Girard’s (1961) thinking identifies the destructive and conflicting variables of desire. However it’s unclear how to reconcile these two ambivalent and different positions about the "nature" of desire. In this paper I would suggest that there is a possible integration between these two key interpretations if we want to make room for ambivalent questioning in the educational inquiry.

Keywords: Desire, mimetic desire, democracy, education, ambivalence, problematicism

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Marta Ilardo, Le ambivalenze del desiderio in educazione: percorsi di riflessività pedagogica in "EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY" 2/2020, pp 383-394, DOI: 10.3280/ess2-2020oa9493