TY - JOUR
T1 - The bare classroom- representation and the liminal presence of others
AU - Gideon, Ido
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - This article begins with an account of an improvised classroom in a refugee camp. From this account, and building on Heidegger's' analysis of spatiality, two fundamental characteristics are identified as: first, that classrooms are 'sanctioned-off' from the world, and secondly, that educational situations involve attention to the world. Arendt's distinction between education and politics is presented not only as a normative call to action, but also, and perhaps primarily, as a phenomenology of education as a basic human activity. The article turns to Mollenhauer's account of the emergence of a pedagogical sphere in early modernity, and particularly to his notion of representation, to understanding the way things of the world appear in classrooms. The article proposes the concept of liminality to describe the classrooms as neither 'inside' nor 'outside' the world, and could therefore offer their inhabitants (i.e. students and teachers) opportunities for imaginative exploration, as well as ethical encounters.
AB - This article begins with an account of an improvised classroom in a refugee camp. From this account, and building on Heidegger's' analysis of spatiality, two fundamental characteristics are identified as: first, that classrooms are 'sanctioned-off' from the world, and secondly, that educational situations involve attention to the world. Arendt's distinction between education and politics is presented not only as a normative call to action, but also, and perhaps primarily, as a phenomenology of education as a basic human activity. The article turns to Mollenhauer's account of the emergence of a pedagogical sphere in early modernity, and particularly to his notion of representation, to understanding the way things of the world appear in classrooms. The article proposes the concept of liminality to describe the classrooms as neither 'inside' nor 'outside' the world, and could therefore offer their inhabitants (i.e. students and teachers) opportunities for imaginative exploration, as well as ethical encounters.
KW - Liminality
KW - encounter
KW - ethics
KW - presence
KW - representation
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U2 - 10.1080/17449642.2019.1587732
DO - 10.1080/17449642.2019.1587732
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85064716381
SN - 1744-9642
VL - 14
SP - 258
EP - 270
JO - Ethics and Education
JF - Ethics and Education
IS - 2
ER -