Rancière J., The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation, Stanford University Press, 1991.
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The Ignorant Schoolmaster Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation Jacques Rancière Translated, with an Introduction, by Kristin Ross BUY THIS BOOK 1991 176 pages. $30.00 Paperback ISBN: 9780804719698 Request Review/Desk/Examination Copy CITATION Description Reviews Sociology / Social Theory Theory and Philosophy This extraordinary book can be read on several levels. Primarily, it is the story of Joseph Jacotot, an exiles French schoolteacher who discovered in 1818 an unconventional teaching method that spread panic throughout the learned community of Europe. Knowing no Flemish, Jacotot found himself able to teach in French to Flemish students who knew no French; knowledge, Jacotot concluded, was not necessary to teach, nor explication necessary to learn. The results of this unusual experiment in pedagogy led him to announce that all people were equally intelligent. From this postulate, Jacotot devised a philosophy and a method for what he called “intellectual emancipation”—a method that would allow, for instance, illiterate parents to themselves teach their children how to read. The greater part of the book is devoted to a description and analysis of Jacotot’s method, its premises, and (perhaps most important) its implications for understanding both the learning process and the emancipation that results when that most subtle of hierarchies, intelligence, is overturned.
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