The re-enchantment of school: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm in education

Abstract

The present article analyzes the School institution through an ethico-aesthetic paradigm via its creative processes. It aims at problematizing how this paradigm can change the School institutional limits and its means of subjectivation. We consider that the School is built, simultaneously, by an organization plane which maintains forms and striations, as well as a consistency plane which composes the smooth mutable spaces. The focus of this article will be on the consistency plane, since it hosts the creative processes and the changing possibilities. To conceive an education that is concerned with changes is a political statement – a policy of change – based on a type of ethics which can only be conceived along with aesthetics once we consider that ethical construction is formed by the aesthetic attitudes that each educational experience requires. In short, we intend to transgress clichés of representation about the School as an instituted place lacking transformation. We crave to extract from this hardened-School calcified by striations, its flows, transformations and multiplicities.