The Significance of Controversial Issues in Citizenship Education from the Viewpoint of Radical Democracy : Focusing on J. Rancière’s Idea of “Dissensus”
The purpose of this article is to argue for the importance of dealing with controversial issues in citizenship education. This develops through examining the thoughts of Jacques Rancière’s, one of the most famous radical democrats, focusing especially on his idea of “Dissensus.”
On controversial issues in citizenship education, there have been a number of studies in Japan since 1960’s, and many of those have agreed to think it helpful for development of student’s political literacy to recognize controversial issues or to try to reach an agreement on them. These arguments tend to implicitly assume that we should and are able to reach a reasonable consensus on each of the issues.
Nowadays, however, radical democrats criticize such assumption because consensus in fact inevitably hides decisive differences among people, and they also argue that it is the very impossibility of reaching consensus on controversial issues that constitutes politics fundamentally.
This article redefines the controversial issues referring to an important radical democracy theory, namely Rancière’s. First of all, we try to make it clear what Rancière means by “dissensus.” Then, we examine a social studies’ class in Ochanomizu Elementary School, in which “dissensus” seemed to occur. Lastly, we explore how the idea of “dissensus” can change existing views on citizenship education, and hence on politics.
雑誌名
東京大学大学院教育学研究科紀要
巻
56
ページ
223 - 232
発行年
2017-03-31
ISSN
13421050
書誌レコードID
AN10516641
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
東京大学大学院教育学研究科
出版者別名
The Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo
ラディカル・デモクラシーからみた論争問題学習の意義 : J.ランシエールにおけるディセンサスの政治性に着目して
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