Learning

Abstract

This chapter develops a deeper understanding of the student and learning. By recasting the student’s subjectivity in terms of a deep relation to the teacher as other, it suggest that the learning process involves welcoming an external disturbance, something the chapter develops as the inspirational nature of what Levinas calls the ethical. This situates and relativizes the traditional model of the student as autonomous self-learner. Te Levinasian notion involves interpreting human subjectivity radically as intersubjective, in terms of inspiration, which comes through the teacher.