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“An extremely provocative, original, and engaging book, it raises questions of great relevance and urgency about the process of cultural selection and canonization.”–Denis Hollier, Yale University

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“An extremely provocative, original, and engaging book, it raises questions of great relevance and urgency about the process of cultural selection and canonization.”–Denis Hollier, Yale University

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0804719691
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stanford University Press; 1st edition (July 1, 1991)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780804719698
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804719698
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.44 x 8.5 inches
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Jacques Rancière is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris-VIII. His books include The Politics of Aesthetics, On the Shores of Politics, Short Voyages to the Land of the People, The Future of the Image, and The Nights of Labor.

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Lost Lacanian
5.0 out of 5 stars Knowing is half the battle...the other half is Ignorance...
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I want to add my voice to the other two reviews. I also want to register my amazement that this book remains in relative obscurity.

Ranciere's Ignorant Schoolmaster is a serious philosophical work on the question of education and pedagogy that explores the connection between education and emancipatory politics. As a serious work of philosophy, it is rigorous and a quite demanding read. However, it advances an elegant thesis: all intelligences are equal. Thus, the intellectual emancipation of the students occurs when the holder of knowledge, the teacher, claims ignorance.

This book is made more important due to the lack of real books on the philosophy of education. The last serious book was Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, written in the late sixties--a book with which Ranciere's has much affinity. It is strange that education has been drained of philosophy. Especially since Plato saw it as the key to maintain order in the Republic. Perhaps, philosophical thought on education represents a real danger to the powers that be, so much so that they systematically separated it from philosophy.

On a personal note. I teach Ranciere's book at the University where I am at. You could not believe the amount of controversey it stirs every time. Students, young and old, refuse to accept Ranciere's thesis that all intelligences are equal. They hold fast to the notion that some minds are superior. On a brighter note, one student admitted to me that he decided not to become a teacher because of this book.
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Joe
5.0 out of 5 stars An historical examination of a French educationist after the revolution ...
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An historical examination of a French educationist after the revolution, this book provides an enlightening introduction to Ranciere's conceptions of equality and the aesthetics of mutual relationships and communication.
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Qian Wang
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Good read for educators and researchers
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I can't imagine a better matching of form, content, and timeless relevance.
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Andi
5.0 out of 5 stars Very great points are made here
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This book changed a lot of my ideas about pedagogy. Very great points are made here, I definitely think teachers should at least consider the ideas discussed here.
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awesome
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Anonymous
5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishing work: a manifesto for pedagogy and politics
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2004
I'm constantly amazed that more people haven't read this book, or even heard of it; it should be considered among the new classics of Continental political thought.

Rancière's text does several things at once: most simply, it tells the story of the eighteenth-century revolutionary pedagogue Joseph Jacotot, who developed a method of "panecastic" education which he considered the universal route to mental emancipation. But at the same time Rancière resurrects Jacotot's doctrine. Through a marvelous, sustained sleight-of-hand Rancière plays with its tone and narrative voice, this whole book works as a twentieth-century political manifesto at the same time as a work of history. It is radically egalitarian -- in fact, after reading the book I am not sure that anyone other than Jacotot and Rancière has fully understood the meaning of real, radical egalitarianism. And it is a real book on teaching, all the same, as part of its goal is to evangelize "panecastic" teaching and summarize this general method for teaching.

Not to take anything away from Rancière's other important work, which also deserves more exposure, but this book is incredible, maybe his best, and should be read by a much wider audience.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Mind expanding
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2010
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This books gets you thinking hard about perspectives in education. Makes you question everything you believe about education.
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brian chalkley
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just brilliant
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Peter
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing!
Reviewed in Canada on April 8, 2012
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Very thought provoking book, it raises many questions regarding pedogogical orthodoxy in contemporary Western education. Rancière's writing style is very accessible, and though dealing with some complex ideas, the brevity of the book (just over 100 pages) makes it less daunting than the average philosophical tome. A must read!
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