@article{ART003117162},
author={SEONJOO PARK},
title={Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser},
journal={Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University},
issn={1598-3021},
year={2024},
volume={81},
number={3},
pages={369-396}
TY - JOUR
AU - SEONJOO PARK
TI - Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser
JO - Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
PY - 2024
VL - 81
IS - 3
PB - Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
SP - 369
EP - 396
SN - 1598-3021
AB - This paper is a humanistic inquiry into the structural inter-relationship between modern education and violence, and tries to suggest the reconceptualization of education by shifting from “strength” to “weakness”.
William Carlos Williams’s short fiction “The Use of Force” is a literary example where education and violence become intermingled through the discourse of strength and empowerment. The way the discourse of strength emphasizes health and exercises sadistic violence at the same time in this fiction is very similar with the way education system works in the modern society. Foucault and Eve Sedgwick criticize the way modern “disciplinary power” works as biopolitics using the ideas of “normal” and “health”, and try to deconstruct these ideas. Wai Chee Dimock argues that weakness is a more universal human condition and uses the idea of “temporarily able-bodied” in her literary and cultural researches. These insights help education to be re-conceived as a site where weakness is thought as a foundation of more democratic, flexible, and less violent relationality in the classroom.
KW - Education;Violence;Use of Force;Disciplinary Power;Weak Theory
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SEONJOO PARK. (2024). Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 81(3), 369-396.
SEONJOO PARK. 2024, "Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser", Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, vol.81, no.3 pp.369-396.
SEONJOO PARK "Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81.3 pp.369-396 (2024) : 369.
SEONJOO PARK. Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser. 2024; 81(3), 369-396.
SEONJOO PARK. "Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81, no.3 (2024) : 369-396.
SEONJOO PARK. Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University, 81(3), 369-396.
SEONJOO PARK. Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser. Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University. 2024; 81(3) 369-396.
SEONJOO PARK. Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser. 2024; 81(3), 369-396.
SEONJOO PARK. "Weak Education: Diagnosing the Diagnoser" Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University 81, no.3 (2024) : 369-396.
