Description
Phenomenology and Educational Theory in Conversation challenges the abstract-technical understanding of education to orient the reader to the importance of relationality, intersubjectivity, and otherness to renew and reclaim the educational project.
This book treats education as a matter of existence, relationality, and common human concerns. It offers readers an alternative language to reveal and challenge the humanistic encounters that often disappear in the shadows of neoliberalism. The phenomenologists, and educational theorists featured here, offer insights that connect fully and concretely with the everyday lives of educators and students. They offer another language by which to understand education that is counter to the objectifying, instrumentalist language prevalent in neoliberal discourse.
This book will be of great interest for academics, researchers, and post-graduate students in the fields of pedagogy, phenomenology, educational theory, and progressive education.
Table of Contents
Part 1: On Education
Introduction
Chapter 1: On the givenness of teaching: Encountering the educational phenomenon
Gert Biesta
Chapter 2: Uncovering what educators’ desire through Kierkegaard’s loving phenomenology
Scott Webster
Chapter 3: Approaching education on its own terms
Joris Vlieghe & Piotr Zamojski
Chapter 4: Pedagogical Practice
Andrew Foran
Part 2: Children, Adults, Voice and Agency
Introduction
Chapter 5: More Than Measurement: Education, Uncertainty and Existence
Peter Roberts
Chapter 6: Paulo Freire and Living a non-Neoliberal Life in Education
Walter Omar Kohan
Chapter 7: A Phenomenology of Reading: Textual Technology and Virtual Worlds
Eva-Marie Simms
Chapter 8: Reality testing subjectivity, naivety and freedom – on the possibility of educational moments
Tone Saevi
Part 3: The Existentials
Introduction
Chapter 9: Bildung and Embodiment: Learning, practicing, space and democratic education
Malte Brinkmann
Chapter 10: Time, Individuality, and Interaction: A Case Study
Herner Saeverot & Glenn-Egil Torgersen
Chapter 11: The school building and the human: An intertwined relationship
Eva Alerby
Chapter 12: Active and Interactive Bodies
Stephen J. Smith
Chapter 13: "Awakening to the World as Phenomenon": The Value of Phenomenology for a Pedagogy of Place and Place Making
David Seamon
Chapter 14: From Kairos to Chronos: The Experience of Lived Time in Education
Erika Goble
Chapter 15: Educational possibilities: Teaching toward the phenomenological attitude
Marcus Morse & Sean Blenkinsop
Part 4: To Have Been Educated
Introduction
Chapter 16: Deceptively Difficult Education: a case for a lifetime of impact
Alan Bainbridge
Chapter 17: Education as Pro-duction and E-duction
Stein M. Wivestad
Chapter 18: Focal Practices and the Ontologically Educated Citizen
Dylan van Der Shyff
Chapter 19: Between Having and Being: Phenomenological Reflections on Having Been Educated
Patrick Howard
Index
