Abstracts
Abstract
This article aims to explore what can be done to ensure that fewer children and young people in Greenland opt out of education. In doing so, I hope to contribute to the debate on a theory of change for the Atuarfitsialak educational reform, also known as “The Good School.” The assumption behind the article is that prominent Greenlandic intellectuals are correct in their assessment that the main reason why children and young people drop out of secondary school is that the school—as a system—is still too Danish and does not reflect the Inuit traditional form of knowledge. Furthermore, the article asserts that there is a connection between the Inuit worldview and teleology in the Aristotelian sense, and that the problem with the school system is to be understood as a conflict between the dominant scientistic form of knowledge and other forms of knowledge. The article then discusses the basis for a theory of educational didactics that pursues a non-hierarchical approach to diverse forms of knowledge, including teleology.
Keywords:
- Inuit,
- School Theory,
- Scientism,
- Teleology,
- Theory of Change
Résumé
Cet article vise à explorer ce qui peut être fait pour que moins d’enfants et de jeunes au Groenland se désintéressent de l’éducation. Ce faisant, j’espère contribuer au débat sur une théorie du changement pour la réforme éducative Atuarfitsialak, également connue sous le nom de « La bonne école ». L’article part du principe que d’éminents intellectuels groenlandais ont raison d’estimer que la principale raison pour laquelle les enfants et les jeunes abandonnent l’école secondaire est que l’école, en tant que système, est encore trop danoise et ne reflète pas la forme traditionnelle du savoir inuit. En outre, l’article affirme qu’il existe un lien entre la vision du monde inuit et la téléologie au sens aristotélicien, et que le problème du système scolaire doit être compris comme un conflit entre la forme de connaissance scientiste dominante et d’autres formes de connaissance. L’article examine ensuite les fondements d’une théorie de la didactique de l’éducation qui poursuit une approche non hiérarchique des diverses formes de savoir, y compris la téléologie.
Mots-clés :
- Inuit,
- école,
- théorie,
- scientisme,
- théologie,
- théorie du changement
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