Educational Studies in the Light of the Feminine

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The book is organized around major issues that are studied, crossed, confronted and reconnected in various ways, seeking a balance between educational, professional, intellectual, scientific and ethical issues. Our approach is rooted in humanist and primary references. They are primordial in Deligny’s sense: through their appearance on our itinerary, through their strength of transversality that is conducive to containing an entire journey, to regain it when necessary; if we did not grasp all the possibilities right away, they revealed themselves and re-founded themselves later, staggered over time, bringing us new resources for new problems. This confirms in our eyes their depth, their strength, their untimely capacity to grasp emerging issues: the human at the center but not alone, neither all-powerful nor impotent, inscribed in vast temporalities and numerous environments, contained by, and containing, one or more histories, one or more cultures. They are always “cultures” and “histories”, and depending on the focus from which they are observed, they either unify or disperse.

We think of the human being therefore in the capacity of sensitivity, intelligence and creativity to grasp history and culture and to regain control of it. What would narrative and history be if not a weapon of existence and becoming-transformational, as soon as childhood appears before us, capable of propelling us, as Agamben helps us to think? This book deals with the development ...