Plasticity and Education by Kjetil Horn Hogstad - 9781032350257

Plasticity and EducationThe Philosophy of Catherine Malabou and Educational Thinking\nAuthor(s): Kjetil Horn Hogstad\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032350257, 978-1032350257\nSynopsis\nThis book explores the engagement between the philosophical concept of plasticity and the radically changing space of educational thinking.\n\nPlasticity is a central concept in the philosophy of Catherine Malabou. It represents a new metaphor for the space between the creation, resistance, and total dissolution of form. Plasticity designates the most prominent feature of the human being: the feature of shaping itself, receiving shape from outside, continually changing yet always indebted to its history. Differing from the formlessness of flexibility the notion that form can change into anything without resistance or consequence plasticity represents a radical restructuring of our ideas of development and change. According to p.