Todd, Sharon
(2004)
Teaching With Ignorance: Questions of
Social Justice, Empathy, and
Responsible Community.
Interchange, 35 (3).
pp. 337-352.
ISSN 0826-4805
Abstract
This paper explores the limitations of empathy for the
formation of community, particularly within social justice
education. I begin with a discussion of the major tension within the
idea of community - that it is founded at once on commonality and
difference. Building in particular upon the work of Emmanuel
Levinas, the paper articulates an understanding of community as
a signifying encounter with difference that is not founded upon
knowledge about the other, but upon a being-for and feeling-for the
other. Focusing upon the explicitly educational commitment to
working out forms of relationality conducive to establishing
community and social justice across social differences, I ask how
might teaching with ignorance, as opposed to teaching for
empathy, bring us closer to the being-for others that marks our
ethical engagement with other people and engenders our
responsibility to the collective?
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Empathy; social justice; community; responsibility;
Levinas; being-for; feeling-for; teaching; Derrid;, Bauman; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Education |
| Item ID: |
8534 |
| Depositing User: |
Prof. Sharon Todd
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| Date Deposited: |
01 Aug 2017 12:03 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Interchange |
| Publisher: |
Springer Verlag |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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