Education-for-Myself and Education-for-the Other: The Right to Freedom of Education and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Experience

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Published: Sep 21, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2020.346

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Oleg Osovsky
Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute, Russia
Vera Kirzhaeva
National Research Mordovia State University, Russia
Ekaterina Chernetsova
National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia
Elizaveta Maslova
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia

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The article contains reflections on the problem which has arised in Eugene Matusov's article on freedom of education, and considers the experience of Mikhail Bakhtin as an example of the way the right to the freedom can be fulfilled. Not only Bakhtin's life and ideas play a significant role in contemporary social and educational theories and practices, but they reveal how education becomes a result of selection of particular knowledge and one's conscious choice. The core of the article is a correlation of notions “Education-for-myself” and “Education-for-the other” which are taken by the authors as derivatives of the terms of Bakhtin’s early philosophy “I-for-myself” and “I-for-the other”. Thus ideas of “Education-for-an individual” and “Education-for-the society” result from the reflections and can be evidence of the need in mutual understanding and dialogue in order to achieve freedom of education.

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Osovsky, O., Kirzhaeva, V., Chernetsova, E., & Maslova, E. (2020). Education-for-Myself and Education-for-the Other: The Right to Freedom of Education and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Experience. Dialogic Pedagogy: A Journal for Studies of Dialogic Education, 8, SF71-SF79. https://doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2020.346
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Vol. 8 (2020)
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Special Issue: Students’ Freedom of Education

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Author Biographies

Oleg Osovsky, Mordovia State Pedagogical Institute, Russia

Oleg Osovsky works as a Chief research fellow in pedagogical institute in Saransk. He is a Dr. of
Philology. Professor Osovskiy is the author of several books on M.B Bakhtin’s ideas and their reception in
Anglo-American humanities, Russian émigré school in Europe.

Vera Kirzhaeva, National Research Mordovia State University, Russia

Vera Kirzhaeva works as a professor of Russian at Philology department in Saransk. She is a Dr. of
Pedagogy. Her main research interests are Bakhtin Studies, Russian émigré education in 1920-40s,
Russian intellectual history.

Ekaterina Chernetsova, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia

Ekaterina Chernetsova is an Associate Professor in School of Foreign Languages at Higher School of
Economics (Moscow). She specializes in American Studies and World Literature, problems of teaching
languages and literature. Her research also focuses on contemporary American fiction, clash of paradigms
in literature, and Bakhtinian approaches to a literary text. Her recent book is Chernetsova E. (2018) After
New Journalism: History, Myth, Imagination in Norman Mailer’s novels of the 1980-s – 2000-s.

Elizaveta Maslova, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russia

Elizaveta Maslova works as a university lecturer in Moscow. She holds a PhD degree, CELTA and FTBE.
Her special interests include LCCI exams preparation and development of online courses, Bakhtin and
contemporary US novel.

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