Session Information
13 SES 11, A Plea for Potentialism in Education
Symposium
Time:
2016-08-25
17:15-18:45
Room:
NM-F104
Chair:
Joris Vlieghe
Discussant:
Suninn Yun
Contribution
In this contribution, I propose to re-think the concept of repetition, using a ‘potentialist’ approach. I will argue that, in the context of the learning society we are currently living in, the practice of practicing (apprenticeship) is losing its educational dimension, in the sense that it refers less to a way to keep improving an ability, and more to the minimum of repetitive exercises that are needed to achieve a certain goal in a defined way. I will show that what makes the difference between these two conceptions of practicing is the way in which repetition is understood. On the one hand, in a “learnificated” context (Cf. Biesta 2010), repetition is expected to generate specific outcomes, and therefore, as soon as the outcomes are obtained, practice is expected to cease. On the other hand, in a context of apprenticeship, repetition makes all the difference. This means that repetition is a way of recovering possibilities that have not been actualized. In other words, repetition undoes the actual in favour of potentiality (Cf. Agamben 2007). In the context of apprenticeship, practice becomes a way of ‘repotentialisation’. In this paper, I explore this educational dimension of repetition from a potentialist perspective. More precisely, I will draw from Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition (1994) and show how Deleuze’s development of repetition resounds in dance apprenticeship.
References
- Agamben, G. (2007) Infancy and History: On the Destruction of Experience. New York: Verso - Biesta, G.J.J. (2010). Good Education in an Age of Measurement. Boulder (CO): Paradigm Publishers - Deleuze, G. (1994) Difference and repetition, London, The Athlone Press.
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