Praeg, Leonhard

Title: "Morality and authority in existential praxis"
Creator: Praeg, Leonhard
ThesisAdvisor: Williams, Kevin
Subject: Hooks, Bell Teacher-student relationships Education, Higher Knowledge, Sociology of Universities and colleges Educational change College teaching|xPhilosophy
Date: 2006
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MEd
Identifier: vital:1928
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007593
Description: In this study I am concerned with understanding how the emergence of participatory or, broadly understood, existential approaches to education has shifted the nature of the student/lecturer relationship. Historically, the difference was represented through the in loco parentis trope which contains implicit understandings as to the nature of the lecturer's authority and the ethical parameters of the relationship. With the emergence of more participatory approaches this relationship and its constitutive elements have to be re-imagined. In the first chapter I place this enquiry in the contemporary context in which the very identity of the university is changing as a result of massification and the accountability regime. In the second chapter I look at bell hooks' pedagogy as an example of such a participatory approach to education at higher education institutions. I describe her practice as a deconstructive pedagogy that is as powerful as it is because of the operation of a difference constitutive of it. In the third chapter I ask whether representing this difference in terms of the pre-modern master/apprentice offers a useful response to the questions raised by an existential praxis.
Format: 120 leaves, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Education, Education
Language: English
Rights: Praeg, Leonhard

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