Pedagogy - The Question of Impersonation

Simon suggests that pedagogical roles can be taken on and off at will; Gregory Jay discusses the ethical side of impersonation; and Susan Miller denounces "the personalas a sham.

List of contents

A Personal Postscript, an Impostured Preface; David Crane

Im-Personation: A Reading in the Guise of an Introduction; Jane Gallop

Discipline, Spectacle, and Melancholia in and around the Gay Studies Classroom; Joseph Litvak

Lecturing and Transference: The Undercover Work of Pedagogy; Arthur W. Frank

Scholae Personae: Masks for Meaning; Madeleine R. Grumet

Give Me a Girl at an Impressionable Age and She Is Mine for Life: Jean Brodie as Pedagogical Primer; Lynne Joyrich

The Good Teacher, The Good Student: Identifications of a Student Teacher; Chris Amirault

The Teacher's Breasts; Jane Gallop

Face to Face with Alterity: Postmodern Jewish Identity and the Eros of Pedagogy; Roger I. Simon

On Waking Up One Morning and Discovering We Are Them; Naomi Scheman

Taking Multiculturalism Personally: Ethnos and Ethos in the Classroom; Gregory Jay

Disinfecting Dialogues; Cheryl Johnson

Caliban in the Classroom; Indira Karamcheti

In-Voicing:Beyond the Voice Debate; George Otte

In Loco Parentis: Addressing (the) Class; Susan Miller

About the author

edited by Jane Gallop

Summary

Argues that teaching is a performance that incorporates the personal in acts of "im-personation."

Product details

• Authors: Jane Gallop
• Assisted by: Edited by Jane Gallop (Editor), Jane Gallop (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.1995
• EAN: 9780253209368
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20936-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 232 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 308 g
• Series: Theories of Contemporary Cultu; Theories of Contemporary Cultu; Theories of Contemporary Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories