The Levinasian Teacher Paperback / softback
by Susan Bailey
Part of the New Disciplinary Perspectives on Education series
Paperback / softback
Description
Recent years have seen educationalists turning to Emmanuel Levinas when considering the relationship between ethics and education.
While it is true that Levinas never speaks of ethics in relation to the practice of classroom education, nonetheless, for Levinas, ethics is a teaching, and learning can only take place in the presence of the Other.
This book considers how, within the constraints of the Irish primary school education system, teachers can develop a Levinasian approach to teaching, that affords both them and the children they teach multiple opportunities throughout the school day to take up their ethical responsibility for each other as Other.
Beginning from a Levinasian understanding of learning and teaching as constituting primordially relational and ethical events, and weaving the philosophies of Levinas, and the educationalists he inspires, into the approaches of philosophy with children, restorative practice, and PAX, this book suggests a unique approach to ethics in Irish primary school classrooms.
The focus of this book, then, is on both the philosophical underpinnings that anchor teaching as a Levinasian, and a consideration of what practical approaches could be employed by the Levinasian teacher.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:182 pages, 1 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:28/07/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781800797819
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:182 pages, 1 Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
- Publication Date:28/07/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781800797819
