Jacques Rancière and Emancipatory Education: Rethinking Political Teaching

This article critically examines conceptions of emancipatory education grounded in the work of Jacques Rancière. It investigates whether Rancièrian contributions to the theory of emancipatory education draw consistent conclusions from Rancière’s interventions and whether Rancièrian conceptions of political education are capable of addressing their potential limitations. To this end, the article reconstructs Rancière’s interventions alongside Rancièrian conceptions of emancipatory and political education. It then examines these approaches and develops arguments about how a Rancièrian notion of emancipatory education should be understood. Finally, the article presents guidelines for emancipatory education that are relevant to both intellectual and political emancipation.