Naslov
Narratively Designed Human Agency: On Narrative Approach to Selected Ethical Issues within Higher Education Context

Autori
Vidanec, Dafne

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
19th Annual International Conference on Education, 15-18 May 2017, Athens, Greece

Mjesto i datum
Atena, Grčka, 15.05.2017. - 18.05.2017

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Ključne riječi
(Communicative) Narrative, Human Agency, (Business) Ethics, Charles Taylor, Paul Ricoeur

Sažetak
Charles Taylor, worldwide known contemporary Canadian philosopher holds a stand that people “grasp their life in a narrative”. Following Taylor’s conception of narrative explicated within identity context in his remarkable Sources of the Self (1989) we might think of narrative as of moral space that shapes our communicative life sphere. Education itself is strictly narrative. Since technological progress touched its highlights in the area of human and natural sciences development (late ‘50s up to now-a-days) education is undergone by multifaced influences produced by public media (e. g. TV, Internet, radio, smart phones, iPads etc.) as well as through other forms related to whole range of high-techs involved with everyday life and business, too. In order to understand ‘good’ and ‘bad’ side of technological progress we are called upon to approach such and similar questions following rather inclusive than exclusive way of thinking, because the late one can do nothing but makes things more complicated than they really are in their nature, and nature isn’t so bad, as might look like at the first side. Can we actually reconcile the two things opposites in their particular unique nature: thought and action? Education belongs to the first one and technologies to the second one. So, narrative concept within higher education issue might be taken as a way that gives us whole picture of how we came where we are standing now: triple post- modern age designated by artificial virtual world created by pioneers of digital science and technologies. The question that should spring out to our mind is: “How narrative concept might be helpful in finding a way to reconcile the two- different nature of the same thing: real and virtual within the context of life as a main motif that pushes us in direction of Aristotelian “desire of knowledge” (Metaph. I., 980a 1)? – In order to find the answer to the given question we are obliged to investigate the nature of narrative itself as well as its meaning and purpose within the context of human agency via communicative narrative. Theorists (mainly from Anglo Saxon speaking world) claim that “in the world dominated by print and electronic media, our sense of reality is increasingly structured by narrative.” In other words, feature films and series tell us story about ourselves. So, the whole saga of narrative can be seen through the prism of communicative phenomenon, within communicative space produced by these communication sciences. In this elaboration author offers comparative approach to the narrative issue.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti, Filozofija

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