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"Being With" as the Center and Circumference of Teaching
David T. Hansen
Educational Theory, v74 n6 p942-962 2024
In this article, David Hansen works with two conceptions of "being with." The first is Jean-Luc Nancy's ontological version as found in his "Being Singular Plural" (1999). The second is Hansen's ontic formulation as expressed in his recent book, "Reimagining the Call to Teach: A Witness to Teachers and Teaching" (2021). Nancy's notion is ethical as well as ontological. It constitutes a vision of human being qua being and is formulated in critical juxtaposition with the viewpoints on ethics and being of Martin Heidegger and other recent thinkers. Hansen's conception is not ontological, as such, but is ethical in the sense of presuming that teaching is a practice with built-in terms of relationship between teachers, students, and the subject matter of education, where "education" differs from socialization and enculturation. "Being with" constitutes a term of art for the priority in teaching of attunement, responsiveness, and receptivity -- both to students and to subject matter -- over formal processes of teacher reflection. The latter are indispensable, but they take their identity and their warrant from the fundamental ethical terms of the practice that are rooted in being with. Here, Hansen seeks to show how Nancy's conception of being with enriches the pedagogical idea of being with as the center and circumference of teaching.
Descriptors: Philosophy, World Views, Books, Ethics, Humanism, Educational Philosophy, Teaching (Occupation), Epistemology, Teacher Student Relationship, Course Content
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