The touch of the present : educational encounters, aesthetics, and the politics of the senses / Sharon Todd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Todd, Sharon, 1962- author.

Series:

SUNY Series, Transforming Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Studies in Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body in education.

Intersubjectivity.

Learning, Psychology of.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2023]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Encounters?

The Touch of the Present, or What's in a Title?

My Approach

Structure of the Book

Part One: Theoretical Framings

Chapter One: The Present Tense Incarnate: Education as Encounters/Encounters as Education

Change and Bodies

What Is Educational?

How Is Education Encountered?

Concluding Thoughts

Chapter Two: Senses of Encounter

Troubling Encounters

Living Bodies of Encounters

Encounters as Touching and Being Touched By

Membranes, Morphologies, and Touch in Education

Chapter Three: Enculturation, Regimes of Perception, and the Politics of the Senses

The Making of "Common Sense": Not the Aim

Enculturation: From Discourses to the Senses

Regimes of Perception, Distribution of the Sensible, and Sensation

Enculturation, Aesthetic Interruptions, or Remaking Sense as Common

Chapter Four Forms and Formations of Encounters

Relational Aesthetics: A Language for Educational Encounters

From Form to Formation of Teaching

Moving from Stillness

Relational Encounters of Touch

Staging Formations of Encounter

Chapter Five Becoming as a Time of Unfolding

The Limits of Chronology in Educational Becoming

Fluidity of the Present

The "Traumatic" Time of Education: The Past That Is

Unfolding as the Future Anterior of Becoming

Presencing as the Time of Education

Part Two: Encounters in/of Education

Chapter Six Digital Encounters: Online Education and the Space-Time of the Virtual

Relational, Bodily, and Virtual Contexts of Online Education

Virtual-Actual, Analog-Digital

Connecting Digital Encounters with Virtual Teaching

Chapter Seven Encounters with Climate Change: Teaching in the Presence of Climate Sorrow

Relation to the "Natural" World in Environmental Education

Reframing Relations through Sensory Encounters

Reframing the World in Terms of Gaia

Ice Watch and the Presence of Time

Teaching in the Presence of Climate Sorrow

Afterword The Touch of the Present and Education as Social Justice

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781438492193

1438492197

OCLC:

1492947149