Learning Desire

What role can desire play in pedagogical interaction? In Learning Desire , contributors from the fields of education, cultural studies, psychoanalysis and literary theory explore the many ways desire intersects with knowledge, recognition, fantasy, and embodiment, and what this can mean for transformative pedagogical practice. While acknowledging the productive and destructive force desire can have on the learning experience, the authors offer engaging, innovative modes of thinking about teaching and thinking about desire as an education tool. This volume, rooted in theory, is one also geared towards practice; in taking a fresh look at the limits and possibilities of a transformative pedagogy, it will also give teachers and students new languages for articulating their experiences in the classroom and beyond. Introduction, Sharon Todd; Part 1 Desire and Knowledge; Chapter 1 Psychoanalysis and Education, Shoshana Felman; Chapter 2 Learning the Subject of Desire, Derek Briton; Part 2 Desire and Recognition; Chapter 3 Fantasy’s Confines, Judith P. Robertson; Chapter 4 Say Me to Me, Rebecca A. Martusewicz; Part 3 Desire and Voice; Chapter 5 Knowledge as Bait, Laurie Finke; Chapter 6 Disturbing Identity and Desire, Helen Harper; Part 4 Desire and Re-Signification; Chapter 7 Desire and Encryption, Gae Mackwood; Chapter 8 Integrative Feminist Pedagogy, C.G. Jung, and the Politics of Visualization, Kaarina Kailo; Part 5 Desire and Bodies; Chapter 9 Beyond the Missionary Position, Erica Mcwilliam; Chapter 10 Looking at Pedagogy in 3-D, Sharon Todd;