Pedagogy Out of Bounds : Untamed Variations of Democratic Education

"The focus of this book is on building on current liberal understandings of democratic education as espoused in the ideas of SeylaBenhabib, Eamonnn Callan, Martha Nussbaum, Iris Marion Young and Amy Gutmann, and then examines its implications for pedagogical encounters, more specifically teaching and learning. In other words, pedagogical encounters premised on the idea of iterations (talking back) and reasonable and compassionate action are not enough to engender forms of human engagement that can open up new possibilities and perspectives. Drawing on the works of poststructuralist theorists, in particular the seminal thoughts of Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Lacan, Stanley Cavell, Maxine Greene, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Judith Butler, it is argued that a democratic education in becoming has the potential to rupture pedagogical encounters towards new beginnings on the basis that teachers and students can never know with certainty and completeness. Consequently, it is argued that teaching and learning ought to be associated with pedagogical activities in the making, more specifically a pedagogy out of bounds, in terms of which speech and action would remain positively free, sceptically critical, and responsibly vigilant - a matter of making teaching and learning more authentic so that students and teachers are provoked to see things as they could be otherwise through an enhanced form of ethical and political imagination. It is through pedagogical encounters out of bounds that relations between teachers and students stand a better chance of dealing with the strangeness and mysteries of unexpected, unfamiliar, and improbable action."--Publisher's website Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Raising Doubts about Liberal Approaches to Democratic Education....Pages 1-15 Stretching Democratic Education Towards a Politics of Friendship....Pages 17-28 Democratic Education and Disruptive Encounters....Pages 29-36 Democratic Education in Becoming....Pages 37-47 Pedagogy, Scepticism and Responsibility....Pages 49-55 Pedagogy and Dialectic of Freedom....Pages 57-64 Pedagogy Within Rhizomatic Spaces....Pages 65-70 Pedagogy and the End of Teaching....Pages 71-76 Pedagogy and a Politics of Counter-Speech....Pages 77-82 Pedagogy Untamed....Pages 83-87 Unbounded Teaching and Learning....Pages 89-98 Back Matter....Pages 99-103 TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; FOREWORD; REFERENCES; PREFACE; CHAPTER 1: RAISING DOUBTS ABOUT LIBERAL APPROACHES TO DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION; INTRODUCTION; SELF-REFLEXIVE DEMOCRATIC ITERATIONS; BELLIGERENCE AND DISTRESS IN DEMOCRATIC ENGAGEMENTS; DEMOCRATIC INCLUSION THROUGH GREETING, RHETORIC AND NARRATIVE; COMPASSIONATE DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION; DOING JUSTICE TO OTHERS THROUGH DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION; DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION AS AN ACT OF CARE; CHAPTER 2: STRETCHING DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION TOWARDS A POLITICS OF FRIENDSHIP; INTRODUCTION