The "Lifeblood" of Science and Its Politics: Interrogating Epistemic Curiosity as an Educational Aim

Autor/in	Papastephanou, Marianna
Titel	The "Lifeblood" of Science and Its Politics: Interrogating Epistemic Curiosity as an Educational Aim
Quelle	In: Education Sciences, 6 (2016), Artikel 1 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2227-7102
Schlagwörter	Epistemology; Educational Objectives; Personality Traits; Politics of Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erkenntnistheorie; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Individual characteristics; Personality characteristic; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	Social- and virtue-epistemologies connect intellectual and moral concerns in ways significant for education and its theory. For most educationists, epistemic and ethical virtues are no longer dissociated. However, many political framings or operations of epistemic virtues and vices remain neglected in educational discourses. This article illustrates why a politicization of epistemic issues is relevant to education through reference to political performances of a curiosity typically considered educationally valuable. Curiosity bore political connotations from antiquity to late modernity whose exploration may add critical nuance to educational-philosophical conceptions of epistemic desire. This leads us to the main argument of the article, which is that such politicization helps us interrogate unqualified, uniform, and glorifying treatments of curiosity as an educational aim. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01