This book extends liberal understandings in and about democratic citizenship education in relation to university pedagogy, more specifically higher teaching and learning. The authors’ argument is in defence of cultivating humanity through (higher) educational encounters on the basis of virtues that connect with the idea of love. Unlike romantic and erotic love, the book examines love in relation to educational encounters whereby humans or citizens can engage autonomously, deliberatively andresponsibly, yet lovingly. The rationale for focussing on the notion of philia (love) in educational encounters, the authors argue, is that doing so allows our current understandings of such encounters to be expanded beyond mere talk of reasonable engagements―autonomous action, deliberative iterations, and simple action―toward emotive enactments that could enhance human relations in educational encounters.
Author(s): Nuraan Davids, Yusef Waghid
Series: SpringerBriefs in Education
Publisher: Springer International
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 128
City: Cham
Preface
Contents
1 Educational Encounters, Mutuality, Trust and Respect
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Mutual Respect and Educational Encounters
1.3 Trust and Educational Encounters
1.4 Mutual Respect, Trust, Educational Encounters and the University Teacher
1.5 Summary
References
2 Educational Encounters as Ethical Friendships
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Loving in Friendship
2.3 Exploring the Notion of an Ethical Friendship
2.4 On Memory and Educational Encounters
2.5 Summary
References
3 Educational Encounters, Autonomy and Liberty
3.1 Introduction
3.2 On Acting and Speaking Through Educational Encounters
3.3 On the Freedom to Act to Improve Human Conditions
3.4 Teaching, Learning and Loving Pedagogical Encounters
3.5 Summary
References
4 Educational Encounters, Deliberative Iterations and Everyday Talk
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Everyday Talk as Constitutive of Public Deliberation
4.3 Implications of Considered Talk for Teaching and Learning
4.4 Summary
References
5 Educational Encounters as Loving Relations
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Friendly Love and Educational Encounters
5.3 Love, Risk and Rhythm
5.4 Summary
References
6 Educational Encounters and Liquid Love
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Frailty of Being Human
6.3 Rethinking Love and Educational Encounters
6.4 Implications of Liquid Love for Teaching and Learning
6.5 Summary
References
7 Educational Encounters, Critical Praxis and Love
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Pedagogy as Praxis
7.3 Critical Praxis as an Educational Encounter
7.4 Summary
References
8 Educational Encounters and the Promise of a Love that Can Heal Hatred
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Hatred as Violence and Violation
8.3 Towards a Love that Can Heal Hatred
8.4 On the Implausibility of Hatred Through Educational Encounters
8.5 Summary
References
9 Educational Encounters and Whatever Singularity (the Lovable)
9.1 Introduction
9.2 ‘Whatever Singularity’
9.3 On ‘Whatever Singularity’ that is Lovable and Educational Encounters
9.4 Summary
References
10 On Thinking Differently About Educational Encounters
10.1 Introduction
10.2 For the Love of the Subject: The Subject Embodied in the Other
10.3 The Paradox of Inclusion and the Self
10.4 Summary
References
Postscript: Towards a Thinking of Embodied Intelligence
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