On (In)security: A conversation on education and intergenerational dialogues

• Main Authors: Carolin Bebek, Kate Katafiasz, Karian Schuitema, Benjamin Weber
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Performance Philosophy 2020-02-01
• Series: Performance Philosophy
• Subjects: drama and arts education, body as an open unity, educating learning disabled and neurodiverse children
• Online Access: https://www.performancephilosophy.org/journal/article/view/285

This paper presents a QA conversation held at the Performance Philosophy Biennial in Amsterdam, 2019. Three presentations responded to the conference call of ‘intervening in the habit of academia as a place for mature or adult voices,’ by exploring ways of making space for children’s voices. Connected by a focus on intergeneration dialogues, children’s disruption and the possibilities of empowerment, both within education and within familial structures, the three presentations opened a discussion about interpellation, sensitivity and (in)security. This paper presents this discussion in a reworked and extended format, offering insight into the presentations on the day, the subsequent conversation and the overarching questions that these dialogues provoke.