Teaching with ignorance: Questions of social justice,empathy, and responsible community |
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| Authors: | Sharon Todd |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Social and Cultural Studies, Stockholm Institute of Education, Konradsbergsgatan 5A, Box 34103, 100 26 Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores the limitations of empathy for the formation of community, particularly within social justice education. I begin with a discussion of the major tension within the idea of community — that it is founded at once on commonality and difference. Building in particular upon the work of Emmanuel Levinas, the paper articulates an understanding of community as a signifying encounter with difference that is not founded upon knowledge about the other, but upon a being-for and feeling-for the other. Focusing upon the explicitly educational commitment to working out forms of relationality conducive to establishing community and social justice across social differences, I ask how might teaching with ignorance, as opposed to teaching for empathy, bring us closer to the being-for others that marks our ethical engagement with other people and engenders our responsibility to the collective? |
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| Keywords: | Empathy social justice community responsibility Levinas being-for feeling-for teaching Derrida Bauman |
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