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This chapter constructs a philosophical platform for reflecting upon human processes of learning. It discusses learning in terms of processes of finitude and infinitude so that pedagogical work cannot assume prescribed learners but anticipate learners-yet-to-arrive. Such anticipation demands ethics of risk with responsibility. The second part of the chapter considers the force of art as an event that has the potential to generate the individuation of new worlds.
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Atkinson, D. (2017). Some Thoughts on the Finitude and Infinitude of Learning and Teaching in the Context of Art in Education. In: jagodzinski, j. (eds) What Is Art Education?. Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48127-6_6
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