O'Donnell, Aislinn (2013) Unpredictability, Transformation, and the Pedagogical Encounter: Reflections on What is Effective in Education. Educational Theory, 63 (3). pp. 262-282. ISSN 0013-2004
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Abstract
In this article, Aislinn O’Donnell offers a set of reflections on the relation between therapy
and education. In the first section, she examines criticisms of therapeutic education, mobilizing the
example of prison education to highlight the difficulties that arise from imposing prescriptive modes of
subjectification and socialization in pedagogy. In the second section, she addresses the relation between
therapy and education by focusing on just one element of the experience of education: those moments
at which a subject has the potential of becoming significant in the life of a student. An important
dimension of the educator’s authority involves noticing such moments, fostering the conditions that
make them more likely, and engaging in the creative process and practice of deciding how best
pedagogically to respond to these moments. In the third section, O’Donnell develops this idea by
detailing a philosophical approach and practice that understands ‘‘effectiveness’’ in education as bound
to practice, creative responsiveness, and the judgment of the educator in concrete, singular pedagogical
situations, rather than construed in terms of generic models of ‘‘best practice.’’
Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | Unpredictability; Transformation; Pedagogical Encounter; Reflections; Effective; Education; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
Item ID: | 8609 |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/edth.12023 |
Depositing User: | Prof Aislinn O'Donnell |
Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2017 15:32 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Educational Theory |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
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URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/8609 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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