Thursday, May 7, 2015
Neville Scarfe, Room 2415 at 10:30 a.m.
Title: Foucault’s Ethics In Education
Co-Supervisors: Barbara Weber (HDLC) and William Pinar (EDCP)
Supervisory Committee: Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur (HDLC)
ABSTRACT
Ethical questions are often posed to explore the relationship between and the responsibilities of actors to each other by adopting criteria. Ethical criteria engender assumptions about the actors by focusing on their responsibilities. Instead of relying on criteria, Michel Foucault’s writing and lectures contributed to an awareness of the activities we take upon ourselves as ethical subjects.
Foucault’s ethics seeks to examine the possibilities of the constitution of the subject and the transformation of subjectivity. The topic of this conceptual research is the contribution of “care of the self” and parrhesia to ethics in education. Foucault offers an avenue of understanding the formation of ethical subjects in their educational interrelationships.