Fulfilment: Crisis, discontinuity and the dark side of education

Abstract

This paper forms part of a Special Issue titled 'Beyond Virtue and Vice: Education for a Darker Age' , in which the editors invited authors to engage in exercises of 'transvaluation' . Certain apparently settled educational concepts (from agency and fulfilment to alienation and ignorance) can be reinterpreted and transvaluated (in a Nietzschean vein) such that virtues become vices and vices virtues. The editors encouraged authors to employ polemics and some occasional exaggeration to reimagine educational values that are all too readily accepted within contemporary educational discourses.