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Commentary on Alcorn & Massé: troubling pedagogy

Responding to papers by Michelle Massé and Marshall Alcorn, I begin with an argument for the need to recognize ignorance as performative rather than merely as illustrative of student resistance in some pathological sense. I then explore the Lacanian notion that teachers develop imaginary suppositions about the lack in their students, and that these suppositions support rescue fantasies among teachers that are related to bolstering their own unconscious need for narcissistic gratification and love. I conclude by showing how these ideas resonate with my own autobiographical history as a teacher, as well as with key ideas in the two papers under discussion, and I commend both authors for opening up a valuable discussion of teaching as an “impossible profession”.

Commentary on Alcorn & Massé: troubling pedagogy

Urheber*in: O'Loughlin, Michael

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Alternative title
Comentário sobre Alcorn & Massé: pedagogia problemática
Extent
Seite(n): 252-257
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet

Bibliographic citation
ETD - Educação Temática Digital, 13(1)

Subject
Bildung und Erziehung
Psychologie
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Erziehungswissenschaft
angewandte Psychologie
pädagogische Theorie
pädagogisches Konzept
Unterbewusstsein
Psychoanalyse
Lacan, J.
pädagogische Förderung

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
O'Loughlin, Michael
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2011

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-286261
Rights
GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
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  • O'Loughlin, Michael

Time of origin

  • 2011

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