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Educationalists are currently engaging with Jacques Rancière’s thought on emancipation and equality. The focus of this paper is on what initiates the process that starts emancipation. With reference to teachers the question is: how do teachers become emancipated? This paper discusses how the teacher’s life is made ‘sensible’ and how sense is distributed in her life. Two stories are taken from Rancière’s own work, that of Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Jacotot, that give us an indication of the initiation process of emancipation. Then I will see this in relation to the teacher, Mr Briggs, who is one of the main characters of the play Our Day Out (1987) by Willy Russell.
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When reading The Ignorant School Master, it is very difficult to say when Rancière is writing in his own voice and when he is quoting Joseph Jacotot. This is whyI write Rancière/Jacotot.
What we normally understand by politics, Rancière calls policing, the police order. Rather than police force the idea of policing implies policy-making, parliamentary legislation, executive orders, judicial decisions, economic arrangements, interest-groups, etc. What all these have in common is that they situate us in a particular position, with a particular understanding and role—they position us according to predetermined criteria.
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Mercieca, D.P. Initiating ‘The Methodology of Jacques Rancière’: How Does it All Start?. Stud Philos Educ 31, 407–417 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11217-012-9297-4
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