The touch of the present : educational encounters, aesthetics, and the politics of the senses /

Explores the importance of the body and the senses in educational encounters, drawing out the aesthetic and political dimensions of educational practices.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Todd, Sharon, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2023]
Series:SUNY series, transforming subjects: psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Why Encounters?
  • The Touch of the Present, or What's in a Title?
  • My Approach
  • Structure of the Book
  • Part One: Theoretical Framings
  • Chapter One: The Present Tense Incarnate: Education as Encounters/Encounters as Education
  • Change and Bodies
  • What Is Educational?
  • How Is Education Encountered?
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • Chapter Two: Senses of Encounter
  • Troubling Encounters
  • Living Bodies of Encounters
  • Encounters as Touching and Being Touched By
  • Membranes, Morphologies, and Touch in Education
  • Chapter Three: Enculturation, Regimes of Perception, and the Politics of the Senses
  • The Making of "Common Sense": Not the Aim
  • Enculturation: From Discourses to the Senses
  • Regimes of Perception, Distribution of the Sensible, and Sensation
  • Enculturation, Aesthetic Interruptions, or Remaking Sense as Common
  • Chapter Four Forms and Formations of Encounters
  • Relational Aesthetics: A Language for Educational Encounters
  • From Form to Formation of Teaching
  • Moving from Stillness
  • Relational Encounters of Touch
  • Staging Formations of Encounter
  • Chapter Five Becoming as a Time of Unfolding
  • The Limits of Chronology in Educational Becoming
  • Fluidity of the Present
  • The "Traumatic" Time of Education: The Past That Is
  • Unfolding as the Future Anterior of Becoming
  • Presencing as the Time of Education
  • Part Two: Encounters in/of Education
  • Chapter Six Digital Encounters: Online Education and the Space-Time of the Virtual
  • Relational, Bodily, and Virtual Contexts of Online Education
  • Virtual-Actual, Analog-Digital
  • Connecting Digital Encounters with Virtual Teaching
  • Chapter Seven Encounters with Climate Change: Teaching in the Presence of Climate Sorrow
  • Relation to the "Natural" World in Environmental Education
  • Reframing Relations through Sensory Encounters
  • Reframing the World in Terms of Gaia
  • Ice Watch and the Presence of Time
  • Teaching in the Presence of Climate Sorrow
  • Afterword The Touch of the Present and Education as Social Justice
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index