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Carol Goodey
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Mainly focused on education, systems thinking, adult education, community learning, ESOL, informal learning, research, language. She/her.
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My new article in the open access journal, Scottish Educational Review.

‘Claiming the Status of Speaking and Thinking Beings’: Using Rancière to Encourage a Perceptual Shift around People, Education and Equality

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Image shows screenshot of the first page of the article linked to in the post with the title, Claiming the status of speaking and thinking beings: using Rancière to encourage a perceptual shift around people, education and equality. The Abstract is as follows: Education is often seen as a solution to the many challenges we face as a society where people and the problems they experience, or cause, can be fixed by education. Equality, it is believed, can be achieved through education. The work of Jacques Rancière offers a different perspective. This article draws on data from a qualitative study of community activist learning to illustrate Rancière’s principle of equality. It considers how education may create and sustain inequality. Community activism provides a useful context to consider how, rather than being deferred, equality can be verified through people claiming the status of speaking and thinking beings. The aim is to encourage a shift in how people, education and equality are perceived. Since education reform after reform have had little impact on tackling inequality, it is argued that we need to see differently before we can do differently.
September 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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The contrast between bell hooks' experiences of school in the intro to Teaching to Transgress is always so striking

From loving learning, where "To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure"

To "we soon learned that obedience, and not a zealous will to learn, was what was expected of us"
Screenshot from the book Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks with the following text: Attending school then was sheer joy. I loved being a student. I loved learning. School was the place of ecstasy—pleasure and danger. To be changed by ideas was pure pleasure. But to learn ideas that ran counter to values and beliefs learned at home was to place oneself at risk, to enter the danger zone. Home was the place where I was forced to conform to someone else’s image of who and what I should be. School was the place where I could forget that self and, through ideas, reinvent myself. Screenshot from the book Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks the following text: School changed utterly with racial integration. Gone was the messianic zeal to transform our minds and beings that had characterized teachers and their pedagogical practices in our all-black schools. Knowledge was suddenly about information only. It had no relation to how one lived, behaved. It was no longer connected to antiracist struggle. Bussed to white schools, we soon learned that obedience, and not a zealous will to learn, was what was expected of us. Too much eagerness to learn could easily be seen as a threat to white authority.
November 23, 2024 at 2:29 PM