Overview
- This book repositions vulnerability as an inherent trait to humanity that is experienced by all people, offering a path to the sort of interconnectedness essential in democratic societies
- The authors embed personal narratives, visual art, and poetry in the text to illustrate the vulnerabilities they experience as educators, and to provide an example of the importance for teachers to acknowledge and examine their own vulnerabilities in their profession
- This book explores the potential of public education, threaded with the vulnerabilities of teachers and students in a complex time, to deconstruct neoliberal master narratives and provide a foundation for a thriving participatory democracy that is generous in its dissensus
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About this book
By vulnerability we mean the experiences that have the potential to compromise our livelihood, beliefs, values, emotional and mental states, sense of self-worth, and positioning within the Habermasian system/lifeworld as teachers and learners. We can refer to this as microvulnerability—that is, those things humans encounter in daily life that make us aware of the illusion of control. The selfie becomesan analogy for the posturing of a particular self that reinforces how one hopes to be understood by others.
What are the vulnerabilities teachers and learners face? And how can we joker, as Norris calls it, the various vulnerabilities that we inherently bring into teaching and learning spaces? In light of the divisive discourses around the politics of Ferguson, Charlie Hebdo, ISIS, Ebola, Surveillance, and Immigration; vulnerability offers an entry way into exhuming the humanity necessary for a participatory democracy that is often hijacked by a selfie mentality."
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Vulnerability of Teaching and Learning in a Selfie Society
Authors: Douglas J. Loveless, Cheryl L. Beverly, Aaron Bodle, Katie S. Dredger, Diane Foucar-Szocki, Teresa Harris, Shin Ji Kang, Jane B. Thall, … Phillip Wishon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-812-9
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-812-9Published: 25 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 146
Topics: Education, general
Industry Sectors: Engineering, Pharma