ABSTRACT
Education requires subjectivity in order for it to speak, for it to become embodied, to become actual. Without the agency of subjectivity education evaporates, replaced by the conformity compelled by scripted curricula and standardized tests. “Biographic situation” suggests the lived meaning that follows from past situations, meaning that contains continuities of that past and of the present as well as anticipation of possible futures. The student of educational experience accepts that at any given moment one is located in time and place, always in a singularly meaningful way, a situation to be expressed autobiographically through the curriculum. Undertaking the education of the public requires academic and self-knowledge, themselves reciprocally related. Allegory invites both detachment and intimacy in its transfiguration of lived experience into educational experience. The concept of “allegory” is interrelated with “preservation,” as each reactivates the past in order to find the future.
