
An Intense Calling
How Ethics Is Essential to Education
Jesse Bazzul(Author)
University of Toronto Press
Published on 2. March 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-1-4875-5058-5 (ISBN)
Description
Positing that education is a movement from one way of being to another, more desirable one, An Intense Calling argues that ethics should be the prime focus for the field of education. The book locates ethics, education, and justice in human subjectivity and describes education as a necessary practice for ethical reflexivity, change, and becoming (ethically) different. It also situates ethics as something that exceeds subjectivity, thereby engaging ethics as a material phenomenon through topics such as aesthetics and solidarity with non-humans.
Jesse Bazzul explores various concepts in the book including power, biopolitics, the commons, subjectivity, and materiality, and draws from over twenty years of experience teaching in different countries including Canada, Ireland, the United States, China, and Ukraine. Taking a wide-ranging philosophical approach, the book entangles ethics, urgent political issues, and pressing educational contexts of the twenty-first century. In doing so, An Intense Calling maintains that ethics is the core of education because education involves finding better ways of living and being in the world.
Jesse Bazzul explores various concepts in the book including power, biopolitics, the commons, subjectivity, and materiality, and draws from over twenty years of experience teaching in different countries including Canada, Ireland, the United States, China, and Ukraine. Taking a wide-ranging philosophical approach, the book entangles ethics, urgent political issues, and pressing educational contexts of the twenty-first century. In doing so, An Intense Calling maintains that ethics is the core of education because education involves finding better ways of living and being in the world.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
3 b&w illustrations, 11 b&w figures, 1 b&w table
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4875-5058-5 (9781487550585)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Jesse Bazzul is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina.
Content
List of Illustrations and Tables
Part 1: Ethics and Subjectivity
Preface: A Mapping of Education and Ethics
1. (Un)disciplined: Education as an Open Work
2. Multiplicity and the Commons
3. Education Needs Politics and Imagination
4. Ethics and Subjectivity: The Vital Terrain of Education
Part 2: Ethics as Ontological Exploration
5. Outside the Subject of Ethics
6. Assemblages and the Emergence of Difference
7. Aesthetics and Environmentality
8. Solidarity with Nonhumans
Notes
Index
Part 1: Ethics and Subjectivity
Preface: A Mapping of Education and Ethics
1. (Un)disciplined: Education as an Open Work
2. Multiplicity and the Commons
3. Education Needs Politics and Imagination
4. Ethics and Subjectivity: The Vital Terrain of Education
Part 2: Ethics as Ontological Exploration
5. Outside the Subject of Ethics
6. Assemblages and the Emergence of Difference
7. Aesthetics and Environmentality
8. Solidarity with Nonhumans
Notes
Index