The focus of this book is on building on current liberal
understandings of democratic education as espoused in the ideas of
SeylaBenhabib, Eamonnn Callan, Martha Nussbaum, Iris Marion Young and
Amy Gutmann, and then examines its implications for pedagogical
encounters, more specifically teaching and learning. In other words,
pedagogical encounters premised on the idea of iterations (talking
back) and reasonable and compassionate action are not enough to
engender forms of human engagement that can open up new possibilities
and perspectives. Drawing on the works of poststructuralist theorists,
in particular the seminal thoughts of Jacques Derrida, Jacques
Rancière, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, Stanley Cavell, Maxine
Greene, Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Judith Butler, it is
argued that a democratic education in becoming has the potential to
rupture pedagogical encounters towards new beginnings on the basis
that teachers and students can never know with certainty and
completeness. Consequently, it is argued that teaching and learning
ought to be associated with pedagogical activities in the making, more
specifically a pedagogy out of bounds, in terms of which speech and
action would remain positively free, sceptically critical, and
responsibly vigilant – a matter of making teaching and learning more
authentic so that students and teachers are provoked to see things as
they could be otherwise through an enhanced form of ethical and
political imagination. It is through pedagogical encounters out of
bounds that relations between teachers and students stand a better
chance of dealing with the strangeness and mysteries of unexpected,
unfamiliar, and improbable action.
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Untamed Variations of Democratic Education
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ISBN
9789462096165
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Springer Nature
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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