TY - JOUR
T1 - Education as "Dilemmatic Field"
AU - Tateo, Luca
PY - 2018/9
Y1 - 2018/9
N2 - Psychology of education must discuss a number of relevant ethical, political and societal issues that cannot be simply overlooked as non pertinent to the discipline. For too long educational and developmental psychology have take divergent routes and have not enough dialogued with other fields such as pedagogy. I argue that it is first of all necessary to conceptualize the work of schooling, that is educational processes of teaching and learning in specific social contexts, as complex and dilemmatic fields. I discuss contributions from the past and current debate to support my claim that education is inherently ambivalent and dilemmatic, while educational psychology is too often normative and prescriptive. As many authors have discussed educational processes as battlefields between political and economic tendencies, we cannot avoid to discuss the relationship of such tendencies and the developmental processes of the person. The work of schooling is an action projected towards an imagined future, and educational psychology cannot avoid questioning the predictions emerging from the current socio-economic and political trends.
AB - Psychology of education must discuss a number of relevant ethical, political and societal issues that cannot be simply overlooked as non pertinent to the discipline. For too long educational and developmental psychology have take divergent routes and have not enough dialogued with other fields such as pedagogy. I argue that it is first of all necessary to conceptualize the work of schooling, that is educational processes of teaching and learning in specific social contexts, as complex and dilemmatic fields. I discuss contributions from the past and current debate to support my claim that education is inherently ambivalent and dilemmatic, while educational psychology is too often normative and prescriptive. As many authors have discussed educational processes as battlefields between political and economic tendencies, we cannot avoid to discuss the relationship of such tendencies and the developmental processes of the person. The work of schooling is an action projected towards an imagined future, and educational psychology cannot avoid questioning the predictions emerging from the current socio-economic and political trends.
KW - Cultural psychology of education
KW - Dilemmatic field
KW - Social inequalities
KW - Value-laden development
KW - Work of schooling
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U2 - 10.1007/s12124-018-9429-7
DO - 10.1007/s12124-018-9429-7
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29721689
SN - 1932-4502
VL - 52
SP - 388
EP - 400
JO - Integrative psychological & behavioral science
JF - Integrative psychological & behavioral science
IS - 3
ER -