Deconstruction the Concept of “Individual Differences” and Critique of its Implications from Reconstructionist Approach

Document Type : پژوهشی

Authors

• ali karimigildeh ¹
• alireza sadeqzadeh ¹
• sayed mahdi sajadi ¹
• Khosrow Bagheri Noaparast ²

¹ tarbiat modares

² tehran university

10.22067/fe.v6i1.51060

Abstract

The purpose of this study is deconstruction the concept of “individual differences” to achieve educational justice and critique of its implications from Habermas's reconstruction approach. To achieve this purpose, approches of deconstruction and reconstruction is used. The findings from deconstruction showed that common understanding of this concept has ideological goals, including legalization, to deceit, shairing of students to differences and segregation of students. Deconstruction by creating doubt in the popular view, the need to reconstruction it reveals. From reconstructive critiqe, some aspects of individual differences as a source of creativity should be considered and should not be deconstructed.

Keywords

• habermas
• Derrida
• deconstruction
• reconstruction
• individual differences
• Educational Justice

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