The Touch of the Present
Educational Encounters, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the Senses
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2023
230 pages
978-1-4384-9219-3 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 1
Total Illustrations: 1
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-9219-3 (9781438492193)
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Sharon Todd
The Touch of the Present
Educational Encounters, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the Senses
Book
08/2023
State University of New York Press
€41.40
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Sharon Todd
The Touch of the Present
Educational Encounters, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the Senses
Book
02/2023
State University of New York Press
€107.80
Shipment within 10-20 days
Person
Sharon Todd is Professor of Education at Maynooth University in Ireland. Her many books include Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity, Rethinking Cosmopolitanism and Learning from the Other: Levinas, Psychoanalysis, and Ethical Possibilities in Education, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Encounters?
Part One: Theoretical Framings
1. The Present Tense Incarnate: Education as Encounters/Encounters as Education
2. Senses of Encounter
3. Enculturation, Regimes of Perception, and the Politics of the Senses
4. Forms and Formations of Encounters
5. Becoming as a Time of Unfolding
Part Two: Encounters in/of Education
6. Digital Encounters: Online Education and the Space-Time of the Virtual
7. Encounters with Climate Change: Teaching in the Presence of Climate Sorrow
Afterword: The Touch of the Present and Education as Social Justice
Notes
References
Index
Introduction: Why Encounters?
Part One: Theoretical Framings
1. The Present Tense Incarnate: Education as Encounters/Encounters as Education
2. Senses of Encounter
3. Enculturation, Regimes of Perception, and the Politics of the Senses
4. Forms and Formations of Encounters
5. Becoming as a Time of Unfolding
Part Two: Encounters in/of Education
6. Digital Encounters: Online Education and the Space-Time of the Virtual
7. Encounters with Climate Change: Teaching in the Presence of Climate Sorrow
Afterword: The Touch of the Present and Education as Social Justice
Notes
References
Index
