The Pedagogy of Self-Fashioning: A Foucaultian Study of Montaigne's "On Educating Children"

Autor/in	De Marzio, Darryl M.
Titel	The Pedagogy of Self-Fashioning: A Foucaultian Study of Montaigne's "On Educating Children"
Quelle	In: Studies in Philosophy and Education, 31 (2012) 4, S.387-405 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-3746
DOI	10.1007/s11217-011-9282-3
Schlagwörter	Essays; Ethics; Educational Philosophy; Role of Education; Letters (Correspondence); Teaching Methods; Teacher Role; Phenomenology; Models; Children; Individual Development; Aesthetics; Beliefs; Self Concept; Schemata (Cognition) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Ethik; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungsauftrag; Brief; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Lehrerrolle; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Analogiemodell; Child; Kind; Kinder; Individuelle Entwicklung; Ästhetik; Belief; Glaube; Selbstkonzept; Cognition; Schema; Kognition
Abstract	In this paper I interpret Montaigne's essay, "On Educating Children", as a pedagogical text through its performance of a distinct epistolary function, one that addresses the letter-recipient for the purpose of shaping the ideas, actions, and beliefs of that individual. At the same time, I also read "On Educating Children" within the context of the wider project of Montaigne's "Essays", which, as I suggest, is an ethical-aesthetic project of self-fashioning and self-cultivation. The net result is an interpretation of teaching as an ethical-aesthetic practice of the self, one that is in concert with the interpretation of Montaigne's writing of the Essays as a similar practice of the self. In order to build this case, I employ Michel Foucault's fourfold schema of ethical subjectivity, mapping that schema onto "On Educating Children", so as to reveal a unique pedagogy of self-formation--a pedagogy that works as much upon the self of the teacher as it does the self of the student. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10