An Autonomist Biopolitics of Education: Reproduction,Resistance, and the Specter of Constituent Bíos     

Gregory N. Bourassa 《Educational theory》2019,69(3):305-325

In considering the enigmatic relationships between philosophy, politics, and pedagogy, this essay attempts to map some of the currents in educational scholarship, particularly those running between reproduction theories and resistance theories. While these two theoretical frameworks have been at odds with one another, Gregory Bourassa suggests that both share orthodox commitments that prevent them from appreciating the constituent dimensions of revolutionary subjectivity. In seeking an alternative orientation, Bourassa proposes an autonomist biopolitics of education. This framework inverts the traditional circuits of resistance and suggests that schools follow behind and resist the constituent life forms (constituent bíos) of students. If resistance theory only attempts to identify the ways in which students resist school practices, it risks obscuring the potentiality of constituent bíos as a social ontology that is primary, always already present, and subject to the resistant practices of the school. Therefore, a key contribution of this essay is its development of an autonomist biopolitics of education. Within this framework, constituent bíos is recognized as the foundational and constitutive motor to which schools are constantly reacting. The adoption of this perspective, alongside more conventional understandings of resistance, offers a more nuanced conception of the relation between forms of life and schools.  相似文献   

Walking backwards into the future: Indigenous wisdom within design education     

Nan O’Sullivan 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2019,51(4):424-433

This research parallels Tongan academic Hūfanga ‘Okusitino Māhina’s assertions in the 1994 Contemporary Pacific article Our Sea of Islands, that ‘People are thought to walk forward into the past and walk backward into the future, both taking place in the present, where the past and the future are constantly mediated in the ever-transforming present’ alongside those of Professor Terry Irwin and fellow Transition Designers in which they discuss the use of Indigenous Wisdom to enable designing for the Long Now as defined by Brand in his 1999 book The Clock for the Long Now: Time and Responsibility. In the 2015 Transition Design Monograph Irwin asserts that, ‘Transition Design draws on knowledge and wisdom from the past to conceive solutions in the present with future generations in mind’. This paper draws on the pre-industrial wisdom of indigenous knowledge, specifically that of the Pacific regions, Moana, who have lived and designed sustainably in-place for generations to illustrate the value it holds for the formulation of sustainable and sustaining futures.  相似文献   

Time for inclusion?     

Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas  Benjamin Jay Whitburn 《British Journal of Sociology of Education》2019,40(2):159-173

This article examines the constraints of modern temporality which are antithetical to the careful consideration that working with diverse learners requires for the development of inclusive, democratic education. We take up the conceptual construct of time to explore how it mediates systemic practices that impact policy positions of inclusion in initial teacher education and schooling. Our analysis demonstrates that temporality shapes the possibilities of inclusive practice within which a dominant agenda of compliance frames classroom complexities – both in schooling and higher education environments – into fragmented and preconceived responses to challenging situations. Education systems position educators in risk discourses concentrated on compliance and performance, in part through an emphasis that is placed on the diagnosis of learner differences and subsequent compartmentalised responses. Through schisms in modern time, we demonstrate the ways in which inclusion, like other educational demands, may be supported through a diffraction in time rather than subjugated to it.  相似文献   

Skirting the Sketch: An Analysis of Sketch Inhibition within Contemporary Design Higher Education     

Lisa Thurlow  Peter Ford  Grahame Hudson 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》2019,38(2):478-491

Sketch inhibition is regularly alluded to by educators within design higher education and one with increasingly marked effects on industry. Over the past thirty years, students have been observed to engage less with the manual processes of design development process in favour of other activities perceived as more attractive, to the detriment of their development as effective designers. This article offers an evaluation of literature which supports the importance of sketching to the design process across a variety of disciplines, its anatomy and functions and demonstrates its role in cognitive support, as a language, a means of reflection, communication and storage of information and the micro‐processes it embodies. Initial findings regarding the symptoms of sketch inhibition are presented: from avoidance of studio sessions and minimal design development, to an overreliance on digital tools. It considers causes, ranging from lacking skill‐sets, psycho‐social, to technological, and although further investigation is recommended to establish depth and enable development of an appropriate pedagogical framework for its management within HE, various methods are offered at this stage for use by educators: these include fine art exercises, a rigorous pursuit of quantity and even paper type.  相似文献   

Defying the dominant discourse: why contesting neoliberalism needs critical pedagogy in economics education     

Brenda Spotton Visano 《Critical Studies in Education》2019,60(3):321-339

Both the dominant narrative in the economics discipline and the predominant mode of delivery of an economics education in colleges and universities mutually reinforce the authority of neoliberalism. This paper argues that a counterhegemonic pedagogy in addition to a pluralist curriculum equips students with the knowledge they need to exercise their own judgment as future economists, business leaders and policy makers. Beyond opening discussions of alternative theoretical and methodological approaches or separately, diversifying modes of delivery to promote critical thinking, an economics education engaging critical pedagogy can create the space students need to discuss not only the different assumptions about material relations and individual behavior intrinsic to various economic models, but also the assumed social relations in both the models studied and the construction of which knowledge defines economics as a field of study.  相似文献   

Instructor Humor as a Moderator of Instructors’ Inappropriate Conversations and Instructional Dissent     

Robert J. Sidelinger  Nicholas T. Tatum 《College Teaching》2019,67(2):120-129

This study (N?=?326) was conducted to examine the associations among instructor humor, inappropriate conversations, and instructional dissent. First, results showed students are more likely to employ rhetorical dissent when they perceive their instructors as humorous in the classroom. Second, using expectancy violations theory as a guide, results also indicated that students’ perceptions of instructor-relevant humor moderated the relationships between enactment of inappropriate conversations and students’ expressive and vengeful dissent. These findings support the importance of employing relevant humor in course instruction, especially when instructors engage in inappropriate conversations in the college classroom.  相似文献   

口译笔记教学方法新探——论笔记模仿教学法的有效性     

周金华 《吉林广播电视大学学报》2011,(8):140-142

本文是对英语专业本科阶段口译笔记教学方法的一次探索。首先讨论了口译笔记的必要性和传统的口译笔记教学方法,然后结合作者的教学实践提出了笔记模仿教学法,并借用心理学家班杜拉的模仿学习理论,为笔记模仿在口译笔记教学中的应用提供了理论依据。同时,通过实验设计,检验笔记模仿在教学中的适用性和有效性。实验结果证明笔记模仿教学法是一种切实有效的训练方法,收到了明显的教学效果。  相似文献   

教育学实践性的思考     

刘秋云 《河南职业技术师范学院学报(职业教育版)》2011,(4)

从活动维度看教育是一种培养人的社会实践活动,其实践价值非常显著。从学科维度看,教育现象、教育问题是实践性的,教育规律具有实践性,因此,教育学是一门实践性很强的学科。对教育学实践性的把握,须落实教育学课程性质、课程目标、课程内容等方面,并以此为指导,强化教育学实践教学环节,构建实践教学体系。  相似文献   

女性文学研究与大学语文教育     

刘文菊 《河南职业技术师范学院学报(职业教育版)》2011,(7)

把女性文学研究的经验和成果运用到大学语文教育中,使大学语文在课程目标、教材编写、教学内容、教学方法等方面都增加一个女性主义视角。把培养大学生先进的社会性别意识作为课程目标之一,用女性主义视角审视教材编写,改变无性别色彩的教学内容。尝试运用女性主义教学法进行颠覆性文本阅读,通过增加性别视角实现多元化、多维度文本解读。  相似文献   

多维互动 寓教于乐——游戏教学法在应用管理学课程中的运用与思考     

段莹  陈丽金 《苏州教育学院学报》2011,28(2):75-77

＂游戏＂进高校课堂,并不是简单地在课堂中添加游戏,而是将游戏与教学内容进行有机的结合。文章探讨了游戏教学法在应用性、操作性、实践性极强的应用管理学课程中的应用,介绍了实施的过程设计,并分析了运用这种方法应注意的细节问题。  相似文献