Learning relations : impure education, deschooled schools, and dialogue with evil / Alexander M. Sidorkin. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sidorkin, Alexander M.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 173.

Counterpoints ; v. 173

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Postmodernism and education.

Teacher-student relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : P. Lang, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This book develops an educational theory centered around the notion of relation. Alexander M. Sidorkin defines learning as the production of useless things and shows that problems of learning motivation are more institutional than individual or cultural. He then argues that contemporary mass schools are difficult to manage. The solution to the resulting authority crisis is not in the restoration of authority, but in the pedagogy of relation. The key to learning motivation is in what Sidorkin describes as "economy of relations," a mechanism in which personal relations between students and teachers are converted into relations involving curriculum.

In order to remain a viable social institution, schools must become hybrid organizations that combine features of a regular school and a neighborhood club, giving teachers ample opportunity to build strong relations with an among students."--Jacket.

Contents:

Pedagogy of Relation: An Introduction

pt. I. Critique of Pure Education. Ch. 1. The God of Useless Things: A Definition of Education. Ch. 2. Labor of Learning. Ch. 3. Learning to Be. Ch. 4. Crisis of Authority. Ch. 5. Education and Violence

pt. II. The Educational Relation. Ch. 6. A Case for the Pedagogy of Relation. Ch. 7. Ontology, Anthropology, and Epistemology of Relation. Ch. 8. Between Eros and Athena: The Economy of Relations. Ch. 9. Relational Fields. Ch. 10. Deschooling Schools

pt. III. Polyphony. Ch. 11. The Problem of Educational Authority. Ch. 12. On the Value of Double Messages. Ch. 13. Lyotard vs. Bakhtin. Ch. 14. Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, and Critical Theory. Ch. 15. Dialogue with Evil.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph