Full Description
The 21st century is steeped in claims to interconnection, technological innovation, and new affective intensities amid challenges to the primacy and centrality of "the human". Flashpoint epistemology attends to the lived difficulties that arise in teaching, policymaking, curriculum, and research among continuous practices of differentiation, and for which there is no pre-existing template for judgment, resolution, or action.
Flashpoint Epistemology Volume 1 examines contemporary collisions and reworkings of cultural-political issues in education through arts and humanities-based approaches. How and whether lines are (re)drawn in educational practice - and via who-what - between justice, morality, religion, ethics, subjectivities, intersectionality, the sublime, and the senses are a particular focus. The volume offers innovative relational approaches and new narrativization strategies, examining the aporia experienced when operating in educational domains of inevitable, recurring, difficult, fortuitous, and/or unforeseen flashpoints.
The chapters will engage researchers seeking new approaches to education's complexities, nested discourses, and ever-moving horizons of enactment. It will also benefit post/graduate students and teachers whose work intersects with sociological, philosophical, and cultural studies and who are curious about claims to interconnection, the ethical quandaries embedded in practice, and the affordances and limits of technological innovation.
Contents
1. Series and Volume Introduction: Flashpoint Epistemology: Differences-in-the-meeting Part 1: Religion-as-Morality Meets Education-as-Other Ways: Life/Death, Eco-Emptying, and Plasticity 2. Sublime Eco Dharma in the Classroom: Derrida, Marchesini, and the Teachings of the Mahāmudrā 3. Problematizing Ecological Citizenship and Schooling as National, Economic, Religious, and Student-Centered: Laudato Si (Praise Be to You) and New Flashpoints in the Reshaping of Educational Purposes 4. Can't You Tell By the Waves? Vision and Aroma in Tibetan Buddhist Epistemologies of Death 5. Plastic Pedagogy: Rabindranath Tagore Revisited Part 2: Destabilizing Arts: From the Visible/Invisible to Science Fiction/Fiction Science 6. Machinic Understandings of Images: Displacing Ideas of the (In)visible 7. Fiction Science: Educational Substance as a Technology of the Anthropocene 8. Intersectional Assemblages in Afronauts: Rethinking Racialized "Difference" through Utu Dialogues 9. Feeling Pedagogy's Affective and Material Flashpoints in the Science Fiction Animation "Zima Blue"
