MEGR: Common Humanity, Education, and Wonder

"Common Humanity, Education, and Wonder"


Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
Department of Philosophy, CWRU

How can educational institutions and their teachers motivate students to come to class and to learn without using negative consequences? Develop classrooms, courses, and curricula grounded in common humanity and wonder. This talk presents a simple background idea for the construction of classrooms, syllabi, and curricula: education depends on wonder and common humanity together. What should an educational environment become in light of this idea? The talk answers with two interrelated propositions: (1) education should be centered on relationships of common humanity between everyone involved in the education, and (2) education should be led by wonder. The learning objectives for the talk thus include understanding (a) what common humanity is, (b) how common humanity relates people, (c) how agency comes out of common humanity, (d) what wonder is, (e) how to be led by wonder, and (f) why education depends on common humanity and wonder together.

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