Philosophy of Education

Authors:

Saito, Naoko1

Source:

Educational Theory. Aug2007, Vol. 57 Issue 3, p261-275. 15p.

Document Type:

Article

Subject Terms:

*PHILOSOPHY *TRANSLATIONS *DEMOCRACY *EDUCATION *COMPREHENSION *GLOBALIZATION ESSAYS

NAICS/Industry Codes:

923110 Administration of Education Programs 611699 All Other Miscellaneous Schools and Instruction 611710 Educational Support Services

Abstract:

Dewey’s idea of “mutual national understanding” faces new challenges in the age of globalization, especially in education for global understanding. In this essay Naoko Saito aims to find an alternative idea and language for “mutual national understanding,” one that is more attuned to the sensibility of our times. She argues for Stanley Cavell’s idea of philosophy as translation as such an alternative. Based upon Cavell’s rereading of Thoreau’s Walden, Saito represents Thoreau as a cross-cultural figure who transcends cultural and national boundaries. On the strength of this, she proposes a Cavellian education for global citizenship, that is, a perfectionist education for imperfect understanding in acknowledgment of alterity. Our founding of democracy must depend upon a readiness to “deconfound” the culture we have come from, the better to find new foundations together. The “native” is always in transition, by and through language, in processes of translation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Author Affiliations:

1Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University

ISSN:

0013-2004

DOI:

10.1111/j.1741-5446.2007.00256.x

Accession Number:

26253173

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