In this essay, I argue that education should be conceived of as a thing in itself. To lift this view, I present aspects of Graham Harman's philosophy, a speculative realism that can be seen as a radical break with social constructivism and similar approaches. Next, I attempt to outline a rough sketch of an educational "thing", drawing on concepts such as protection, love, swarm, tension and shadow. Finally, I briefly discuss some implications of this vision for philosophy of education. In particular, I think that my discussion point to philosophy of education as the basic discipline in an educational science.
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Rømer, T. A. (2012). The educational thing. In Making Sense of Education: Fifteen Contemporary Educational Theorists in their own Words (Vol. 9789400740174, pp. 71–78). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4017-4_11
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