The educational fiction of agential control: Some preliminary notes on a pedagogy of ‘as if’

Dahlbeck, Johan

doi:10.1080/00131857.2022.2089978

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“…The only way to make sense of this, for me, was by way of the notion of an educational fiction. 56 Mr. Möller's gesture was directed to me "as if" I was already transformed by the power of great literature (when in reality I was far from an avid book reader at that point in my life). In my commentary on Yacek's book, I compared Mr. Möller's gesture to that of the used bookseller in Michael Ende's The Neverending Story.…”

Section: Third Starting Point: Exemplars That Help Us Actmentioning

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The Pedagogy of “As If”

Dahlbeck

2024

Educational Theory

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In this paper Johan Dahlbeck sets out to propose a pedagogy of “as if,” seeking to address the educational paradox of how students can be influenced to approximate a life guided by reason without assuming that they are already sufficiently rational to adhere to dictates of practical reason. He does so by outlining a fictionalist account, drawing primarily on Hans Vaihinger's systematic treatment of heuristic fictions and on Spinoza's ideas about how passive affects can be made to strengthen reason. Dahlbeck suggests that such an account can help us overcome the problem of assuming that reason needs to be enlisted as an instrument in the educational endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason. The reason this is so is that fictions can use passive affects that are prosocial and that thereby strengthen the sense of community necessary for laying a cooperative foundation for successful joint striving. Dahlbeck suggests further that exemplary teachers are crucial to this endeavor insofar as they can offer educational fictions as imaginative and temporary placeholders for the truth, allowing students to act “as if” they were already guided by reason.

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Section: Third Starting Point: Exemplars That Help Us Actmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Pedagogy of “As If”

Dahlbeck

2024

Educational Theory

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The educational fiction of agential control: Some preliminary notes on a pedagogy of ‘as if’

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