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Revisiting Rancière’s Concept of Intellectual Emancipation in Vocational Educational and Training Practices

Gisselle Tur Porres Orcid Logo, Danny Wildemeersch, Maarten Simons

Sisyphus Journal of Education, Volume: 8, Issue: 3, Pages: 23 - 40

Swansea University Author: Gisselle Tur Porres Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.25749/sis.19957

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The paper discusses the emancipatory potential of Uruguayan Vocational Educational and Training (VET) practices, usually associated with job discourses, skills and training. In doing so, we revisit Rancière’s work concerning intellectual emancipation to provide us with a guide to connect with the ph...

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Published in: Sisyphus Journal of Education
ISSN: 2182-8474 2182-9640
Published: Online Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa 2020
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa57137
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Abstract: The paper discusses the emancipatory potential of Uruguayan Vocational Educational and Training (VET) practices, usually associated with job discourses, skills and training. In doing so, we revisit Rancière’s work concerning intellectual emancipation to provide us with a guide to connect with the phenomena studied, as a lens to look at and to problematize emancipation in concrete practices on a heuristic level.Thus, the paper is structured as follows. First, we describe the context of Uruguayan VET practices. Second, we discuss Rancière’s key concepts about emancipation in education. Third, we craft a conversation between the empirical and theoretical work, in view of exploring concrete VET practices from the axiom of equality. Last, the text concludes with a reflection on new meanings regarding Rancière’s intellectual emancipation that deserve further attention and allow us to identify other forms of emancipatory potential in VET practices, to move beyond its currently predominant functionalist understanding.
Keywords: Rancière; intellectual emancipation; vocational education and training
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Issue: 3
Start Page: 23
End Page: 40

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