Education often requires collective action, for example, collaboration, or working in groups, or participating in social media. This paper focuses on the normativist account offered by Margaret Gilbert, specifically, that "collective (or shared) intention and action is joint commitment. Our collectively intending something is a matter of being jointly committed to doing that thing." If this is true, the suggestion is that a person would need, minimally, to notify and seek permission from the others before leaving a collective action. If you're walking with someone, for example, you can't simply change direction and leave without saying anything. This paper (30 page PDF) responds by asking whether that obligation is to the group, or whether it's more like a promise made to one or more specific individuals. If it's the latter (as the authors argue) then a new normativism of collective action is required. Image: IRC.
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