Maintaining knowledge on curriculum conversation, but through discourse: A dialogue with Gert Biesta
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https://doi.org/10.24220/2318-0870v19n2a2684Keywords:
Knowledge, Curriculum, PragmatismAbstract
I present in this paper my dialogue with Gert Biesta about the connections among knowledge, power, curriculum and discourse. I argue that my way of thinking is not a kind of relativism. The absence of a criterion that once and for all justifies a decision making among different possible solutions to a problem – different curriculum options, as well as different ways to educate - is not a reason for the decisions not to be made. I agree with Derrida and Laclau that such decisions are taken in an undecidable terrain.
Keywords: Knowledge. Curriculum. Pragmatism.
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