Territories of Theory: Post-Colonial Irritations of my Theoretical Practice
German version published as: Jörissen, B. (2019). Territorien der Theorie: Post-koloniale Irritationen meiner bildungstheoretischen Praxis. In U. Stadler-Altmann & B. Gross (Eds.), Beyond erziehungswissenschaftlicher Grenzen. Diskurse zu Entgrenzungen der Disziplin. (pp. 57–62). Opladen: Barbara Budrich. Translated using deepl.com, with a few manual corrections. Get a PDF (german preprint & english version) on the Downloads Page. Educational theory sees itself to a large extent, albeit in very different understandings, as a critical project. In this context, the topos of alterity (of the foreign, of the other) has gained increasing importance – following either critical-theoretical figurations (the non-identical) or positions of difference theory (différance). As the colleagues Bilstein, Ecarius and Keiner (2011, 7) state, “when thinking about education we cannot avoid considering cultural diversity and difference, the complexity of life worlds” – and this is because the global world is an unbounded one (ibid.). Paradoxically, however, the trace of the exclusion of…
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