“What Does It Mean To Teach? Between Ignorance, Invention and Emancipation”
Venue: Friday, February 2, 2018, 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Scarfe, Room – 310
In this symposium, we will connect the ideas of ignorance, invention, and emancipation. We will start with different notions of ignorance in order to question the role of the educator. Here we will examine the Socratic ignorance through the critiques of “The ignorant schoolmaster” by J. Ranciere. We’ll also present the idea of invention inspired by Simon Rodriguez (far from the neoliberal apology of creativity and invention). The question “What does it mean to teach?” will be raised in this symposium.
Walter Omar Kohan is a full time professor at State University of Rio De Janeiro and a researcher of the National Council of Research of Brazil (CNPq). He is now a Visiting Researcher at ECPS. His main area of inquiry is the relationship between childhood, education and philosophy.