La déconstruction égalitariste de la (dé)raison pédagogique chez Jacques Rancière

Abstract

This article proposes a critical reading of Jacques Rancière’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster (Le maître ignorant). Faced with past and current educational inequalities, looms a question that we try to answer: should the processes of subjectification of children go through the constraints of adult authority? For Rancière, « the virtue of ignorance is first of all a virtue of dissociation », that is to say that intellectual emancipation requires a separation between mastery and knowledge. The ignorant master is not ignorant of everything, he is ignorant of the social reasons for inequality. This political posture is anti-institutional.