Education and the Ontological Question Addressing a Missing Dimensio
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Kaustuv Roy
Education and the Ontological Question
Kaustuv Roy
Education and the Ontological Question Addressing a Missing Dimension
Kaustuv Roy Azim Premji University Bangalore, Karnataka, India
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…καταμάθετε τὰ κρίνα τοῦ ἀγροῦ Matthew 6:28
To my teacher Professor David F. Labaree, Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Emeritus, Stanford University.
Preface
Growing up on the outskirts of an ocean-side town, the impossibly hot sands under a tropical sun had for us many a lesson. The curved line of the sea-shore met up with the sky at an unbearable distance which presented its own melancholy. Landward there were shimmering mirages; seaward, the white phosphorous smelt of mildly rotting fish. Together these surgically opened up an existential suffering that had no expression in the things that we were taught at school. On the shore, the things that we were taught had no meaning against the searing sands; and the furious white-topped waves spurned any attempt to decipher their in-bound solitude. That missing dimension of meaningful connection left an uncomprehending but indelible mark on the soul. Later, a question shaped itself—was the gap inevitable? Must the focus on epistemic acquisition be allowed to suppress ontological sense making? Could the missing dimension be brought into living contact with prescribed studentship? Can formal education be made to face its essential isolation from all that is? Some
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