Levinas's Ethical Theory of the other and Its Implications on Education

Modern subject-based philosophy, in which everything reduces to the whole, reduces to the Other to I, or emanates it from the realm of knowledge, ignores the differences, currently cannot answer to ethics. Levinas, as a philosopher who has a concern about the “Other", believes that there is no subject that needs to be known, and the other is "Self" in advance and is touched rather than perceived. This philosophical view of the "Other" is represented evidently in structures, that education is one of the spaces, in which the reduction of the "Other" to the "Self" can be presented.

A student has always been considered in the educational system as the “Other”, and its reduction has led to the formation of relations between the teacher and the student who has strengthened his Otherness. Other educational institutions have also taken some steps towards enhancing this space, including the curriculum system. The curriculum system has worked to create a structure in which some of the material can be presented and some of the others removed, in the direction of totalitarianism, which has emerged from the point of view of totalitarianism. Levinas' view of ethics in education pursues the relationship between a teacher with a student as a “Face”, a curriculum based on the marginalized individuals and personal differences, creation of a dialectical atmosphere in the teaching process, and the promotion of justice through education is.