The Pedagogy of Objects Politics, Aesthetics, and the Project of Learning

by Carlin, Matthew; Clendenin, Nathan

• ISBN13: 9781441191021
• ISBN10: 144119102X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-03-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Pedagogy of Objectsattempts to reorient our thinking about education toward a world made up of autonomous objects. This innovative book puts forth the argument that through discussing the way that objects teach we can reconfigure some of the most pressing political problems confronting education today including increasing forms of institutionality; the often debilitating relationships that exist between teachers and students; the obsessive compulsion to equate education with verification; the manufacture of self-management inherent to curriculum design; and the inability to think vocationalism in a non-instrumental manner; among other issues. By turning our attention away from ideology and toward aesthetics and object relations this book fundamentally changes the way that we conceive of the politics of education and schooling.

Author Biography

Matthew Carlin is a visiting Assistant Professor in the Critical and Visual Studies program at the Pratt Institute, USA. His research interests include pedagogy and learning; the overlap between politics and aesthetics in Latin America; the reception of Marxism in Latin America; and violence and social change.Nathan Clendenin is a PhD candidate and Instructor at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. His research interests include aesthetic theory, psychoanalysis, rural education, and non-interpretive approaches to the teaching of literature. He is the author of a book on face transplants.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction: Why a Pedagogy of Objects?; 1: Freinet's Printing Press; 2: The Fetishism of Objects; 3: The Feeling of Things; 4: A New Desire for Learning; Conclusion: Schools Against the State