Authority Is Relational, livre ebook

A must read for anyone who wants to think in depth about contemporary classrooms.

A must read for anyone who wants to think in depth about contemporary classrooms.

Written in an accessible and personal style, this innovative study of authority in education examines scenarios of authority in ways that problematize, augment, and redefine prevalent ideas of how it works. Usually seen as a thing that people have, the author suggests that authority should be understood instead as a relation that happens between people, which gets enacted in circuits where each participant has a role to play; those circuits can include teachers, students, the books they read, as well as former teachers and former students. Drawing on ideas from psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, philosophy of language, and the work of Jacques Derrida and Paulo Freire, the book offers a useful new understanding of authority in education.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Authority Is Relational
1. Texts and the Authority Relation
2. The Literary Relation of Authority
3. Relating to Authority Figures Who Are Not There
4. When Faced with Authority
5. Questioning Authority
6. Paulo Freire and Relational Authority
Notes
References
Index