“I’ll show you differences”: Skills, creativity and meaning
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Siebers, J. and Cobley, P. 2024. “I’ll show you differences”: Skills, creativity and meaning. Social Epistemology. 38 (1), pp. 28-37. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2023.2283845
Type | Article |
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Title | “I’ll show you differences”: Skills, creativity and meaning |
Authors | Siebers, J. and Cobley, P. |
Abstract | This article arises out of critical contemplation of skills in relation to Higher Education pedagogy as it relates to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. As the emphasis on skills dominates more and more of the discourse about pedagogy in Higher Education, the article aims to make some critical comments about the reductionist approach to education that easily becomes part of skills discourse. In addition to criticising instrumentalist deployment of skills in Higher Education policy, the article also considers the supposedly most ‘radical’ perspective on the idea of skill which is implicit in enactivists’ accounts of the embedding of sensorimotor action in cognition. It is argued that such a perspective is undermined by its insistence on a model of direct human-environment which brackets creativity, anticipation and the future. The article suggests that such a perspective would be illumined by dialogue with Ernst Bloch’s concept of the ‘not-yet’. |
Keywords | skills; not-yet; higher education; creativity; embodiment |
Sustainable Development Goals | 4 Quality education |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Research Group | English Language and Literature |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Journal | Social Epistemology |
ISSN | 0269-1728 |
Electronic | 1464-5297 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 11 Dec 2023 |
04 Jan 2024 | |
Publication process dates | |
Submitted | 08 Sep 2023 |
Accepted | 12 Nov 2023 |
Deposited | 22 Sep 2023 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Copyright Statement | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2023.2283845 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:001122354100001 |
Language | English |
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