Broschiertes Buch

Provocations

Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education

Herausgegeben: Robertson, Judith P.; McConaghy, Cathryn

Beschreibung

No twentieth-century woman/teacher has provoked as much interest and perplexity as Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984). Her life reveals the fascinating dilemmas of classroom erotics, the dangers of intimacy in teaching and learning, the difficult and ambiguous nature of post-heterosexual attachments in women's biographies, and the powerful fantasy that the objects of teaching lives are other than our own teaching selves. Provocations: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education provides a groundbreaking and timely feminist re-visioning of Ashton-Warner. This book speaks not only to her enigmatic survivals, but also to education's own submission to excitability and provocation.

Produktdetails

• Complicated Conversation 13
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 67877
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 12mm x 160mm x 230mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9780820478777
• ISBN-10: 0820478776
• Artikelnr.: 24502210

Rezensionen

«Sylvia Ashton-Warner is one of the most challenging and provocative educators of the past century and, although a great deal has been written about her work, none I have read renders her work for justice more directly and powerfully than this volume. At a time when so many educators feel, as the authors put it, 'trapped in an educational script we did not write,' 'Provocations' demands that we produce a different play. In an artful and persuasive animation of Ashton-Warner's contributions as well as her contradictions, this volume draws on the richly subversive writings of Sylvia Ashton-Warner to provoke and to excite the inner critical theorist in all of us.» (Joel Westheimer, Professor, University Research Chair in Democracy and Education, University of Ottawa)
«Appearing twenty years after Sylvia Ashton-Warner's death, this collection is a splendid work - a timely, critical examination of Ashton-Warner's unsettling life and how we may think about it today. Most significant is the authors' theorization of working from the life of a subject to create insight into the life of educational theory. Readers will encounter an array of forces into Ashton-Warner's radical disturbances, while at the same time implicating us as addressees in new editions of old pedagogical conflicts. We are invited to read afresh - through a diversity of perspectives - Ashton-Warner's provocations.» (Deborah P. Britzman, Professor, Faculty of Education, York University, Toronto)