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3This book responds to the need for new ways of defining the aims and forms of education, in an age that has seen the ideals of progress and growth lead the planet and its inhabitants to the brink of extinction. Arguing that contemporary ideas of performance and accountability counter 'the heart' of education, the book calls for a retuning of education that encourages the young generation to study objects and ideas for their own sake, rather than to appease established and conventional notions in…Read more
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5To the burrow and back again. A review of Towards an ontology of teaching. Thing-centred pedagogy, affirmation and love for the World (review)Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (9): 951-952. 2021.
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8Pearl diving and the exemplary way educational note taking and taking note in educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 1-9. 2020.In this paper, I will explore the experience of noticing/becoming attentive to something in education. What does it mean to take notice of something in an educational way, and how does some...
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28Diving for Pearls. Thoughts on Pedagogical Practice and TheoryJournal of Philosophy of Education 53 (1): 180-199. 2019.In this paper, the notion of pearl diving as a metaphor for historical methodology is explored as a possible conceptual contribution to pedagogical thinking and practice. Pearl diving in the thinking of Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin refers to a process of bringing to life and coming to terms with a fragmented past, and requires of the thinker a form of Homeric impartiality. This they contrast with the processual and functional modern understanding of historiography, where events and things a…Read more
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45Positioning Theory som pædagogisk teori – Til et forsvar for en svag pædagogikStudier i Pædagogisk Filosofi 3 (1): 55-70. 2014.The article addresses the emerging framework of ‘positioning theory’, which has become influential in educational theory. We will present the central concepts and ideas of ‘positioning theory’ and subsequently how they are being used to contribute to educational theory. We will focus on an article by Svend Brinkmann where he uses ‘positioning theory’ as the foundation for moral education. Seemingly, Brinkmann uses ‘positioning theory’ rather uncritically in an attempt to ‘strengthen’ the educatio…Read more
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12Conversing with Friends or (Higher) Education Beyond the Logic of ProductionStudies in Philosophy and Education 42 (4): 351-366. 2023.In this paper, we will propose an idea of education as conversations between friends on matters of common concern. In a scholarly and pedagogical climate of competition, testing and accountability, there seems to be little room for true pedagogical and scholarly conversation. What we aim to develop here, is a vocabulary that is able to capture some educational experiences that are being repressed in the current educational and academic discourse and practice. Starting from our own experiences as…Read more
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10Pearl diving and the exemplary way educational note taking and taking note in educationEducational Philosophy and Theory 53 (13): 1350-1358. 2021.In this paper, I will explore the experience of noticing/becoming attentive to something in education. What does it mean to take notice of something in an educational way, and how does something become educationally noteworthy? In order to grasp in more detail the idea of something being noteworthy, I turn to the metaphor of pearl diving – as this appears in the works of Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin - and to Martin Wagenschein’s theory of exemplarity. These perspectives helps us to grasp no…Read more
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10Exemplarity and education : Retuning educational researchBritish Educational Research Journal 46 (6): 1357-1370. forthcoming.This article explores the idea of exemplarity in relation to educational research and teacher education. Exemplarity is introduced as an alternative to the paradigm of evidence and 'what works', which seems to be omnipresent in educational research at present. The idea of exemplarity relates to the particularity of educational practice. The claim of this article is that we need to skew the dominance of functionalistic studies of education, which focus on skills and solutions to problems, or on p…Read more
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4To the burrow and back again. A review of Towards an ontology of teaching. Thing-centred pedagogy, affirmation and love for the World (review)Educational Philosophy and Theory 53 (9): 952-954. 2021.The super computer Deep thought in The Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy once informed us that the answer to what it is all about is 42. The problem being of course that no one had thought to figure...
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19Visiting exemplars. An Arendtian exploration of educational judgementEthics and Education 15 (2): 247-259. 2020.ABSTRACTThe role of exemplification and exemplars is receiving increasing attention in educational theory. Usually, this is connected to emulation models in character and moral education. Exemplars in this framework are those who show us how to act and what to do, and inspire us emotionally to improve. In Hannah Arendt’s unfinished work on judgement, the exemplar plays a different role. Instead of functioning as an inspiration for behavioural change, the exemplar inspires thinking. In Men in Dar…Read more
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34Introduction: the role of the exemplar in Arendt and Spinoza: insights for moral exemplarism and moral educationEthics and Education 15 (2): 135-143. 2020.“Can you feel the warmth of the Hive?”Tom in Leave No Trace (2018).In a haunting scene in the motion picture Leave No Trace1 (Granik 2018), Tom, an adolescent girl living on the edges of normality,...
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3Growing Roots and Becoming Interested: Teaching about the World through ExemplarityJournal of Philosophy of Education 54 (1): 235-249. 2020.Journal of Philosophy of Education, EarlyView.
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27Exploring the role of exemplarity in education: two dimensions of the teacher’s taskEthics and Education 14 (3): 271-284. 2019.ABSTRACTThis paper explores the role of exemplarity in education through a conceptualisation of two different dimensions of exemplarity in educational practice. Pedagogical exemplarity, which relates to the pedagogical and ethical dimension of educational practice. In other words, this dimension explores the educational moments when someone takes up an exemplary function in educational practice. Didactical exemplarity, which relates to the exemplary function of subject matter or educational cont…Read more
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12Education and the concept of commons. A pedagogical reinterpretationEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (4): 445-455. 2019.This paper explores the concepts of commons and commoning from an educational vantage point. These concepts point to places and activities that are shared, communal and un-privatised, in other words they point to places and practices not yet enclosed or appropriated by capital and market logics. Education is certainly a place and an activity that is increasingly being enclosed and appropriated by these logics, but at the same time education seems to always find ways of escaping this enclosure, a…Read more
Morten Timmermann Korsgaard
Malmö University
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Malmö UniversitySenior Lecturer
Areas of Specialization
Phenomenology |
Existentialism |