Maturity and Education, Citizenship and Enlightenment: An Introduction to Theodor Adorno and Hellmut Becker, ‘Education for Maturity and Responsibility’  

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Thomas, Jem ; French, Robert

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of the Human Sciences vol. 12 no. 3 (Aug. 1999), page 1–19.
Topik: education; enlightenment; freedom and authority; friendship; maturity and responsibility
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In a series of radio broadcasts, one of which is translated for the first time in this issue (pp. 21–34), Adorno and Becker claimed that modern education is profoundly inadequate. Their views on education draw heavily on Kant’s notion of Enlightenment as a process for the development of personal and social maturity and responsibility. As such, education cannot just be a training but must itself be a developmental process which takes into account not only social and political realities but also the complex psychodynamics involved in learning. However, Adorno and Becker arrive at a position that is close to self-contradictory, unable to solve the paradox inherent in the idea of an education that is at once authoritative and non-conformist. This might arise from their failure to reflect on the nature of their own dialogue, and it is suggested that friendship offers the social model of a dynamic relationship of the type they sought to articulate. Despite the fact that the discussion took place in 1969, in a climate of educational debate radically different from today’s, their work raises issues and poses questions of the profoundest importance 30 years on.

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