The Disassembly of the Idea of Freedom. Are We Facing the Degeneration of Didactics in the Humanities? Cover Image

Demontaż idei wolności. Degeneracja dydaktyki w humanistyce?
The Disassembly of the Idea of Freedom. Are We Facing the Degeneration of Didactics in the Humanities?

Author(s): Agnieszka Doda-Wyszyńska
Subject(s): History, Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Epistemology, Logic, Communication studies, History of ideas, Theology and Religion, Cognitive linguistics, Contemporary Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Culture and social structure , Social psychology and group interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Methodology and research technology, Social Theory, Social Norms / Social Control, Theory of Literature, Identity of Collectives, Pedagogy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: didactics; master; thinking; academic discourse; social systems

Summary/Abstract: Didactics is a function of an educational system based on examination-observation of the people who participate in the process of teaching and learning. In the process of conveying knowledge this observation of a student by a teacher/master, and vice versa, every now and then builds a practice of independent thinking. On the one hand, the process enables the development of ideas, but, on the other hand, also distorts them and exposes a humanities student to the pitfall of ideology. In my reflections about the disassembly of ideas and deteriorating education I shall make use of the concept of cognitive bias, the polemic about the contemporary University (Bill Readings), the concept of Jacques Lacan’s discourses, Hannah Arendt’s findings about willing and ideology, and Niklas Luhmann’s assumptions of social systems theory understood as autopoietic systems of codified rules of operation.

  • Issue Year: 2024
  • Issue No: 48
  • Page Range: 169-187
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Polish
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