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A Sticky Business? Exploring the "and" in Teaching and Learning
Edwards, Richard
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v27 n1 p121-133 Mar 2006
This article takes as its focus the "and" in discourses of teaching and learning. Drawing upon the work of Deleuze and Guattari, I argue that the "and" signifies a complex, sticky relationship between teaching and learning, and that we can radicalise our conception of "and" to bring forward a range of different discourses. The argument suggests that those critiques of discourses of teaching and learning which argue for an alternative discourse of pedagogy can be supplemented by the radicalising of the "and". I am therefore proposing the possibility for different forms of immanent and transcendental critique in relation to contemporary debates about teaching and learning. And that there is significance in the apparently insignificant...
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Critical Thinking, Learning, Instruction, Theory Practice Relationship, Alignment (Education), Academic Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Rhetorical Criticism, Politics of Education
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