Morwenna Griffiths & Marit Honerød Hoveid 
Re-Imagining Relationships in Education [PDF ebook] 
Ethics, Politics and Practices

Re-Imagining Relationships in Education re-imagines relationships in contemporary education by bringing state-of-the-art theoretical and philosophical insights to bear on current teaching practices.

* Introduces theories based on various philosophical approaches into the realm of student teacher relationships

* Opens up innovative ways to think about teaching and new kinds of questions that can be raised

* Features a broad range of philosophical approaches that include Arendt, Beckett, Irigaray and Wollstonecraft to name but a few

* Includes contributors from Norway, England, Ireland, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, and the U.S.

Table of Content

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction

Morwenna Griffiths, Marit Honerød Hoveid, Sharon Todd and
Christine Winter ix

1 Re-reading Diotima: Resources for a Relational Pedagogy

Rachel Jones 1

2 Towards a Thinking and Practice of Sexual Difference: Putting
the Practice of Relationship at the Centre

Caroline Wilson 23

3 ‘New Fatherhood’ and the Politics of
Dependency

Amy Shuffelton 38

4 Between Body and Spirit: The Liminality of Pedagogical
Relationships

Sharon Todd 56

5 ‘You Have to Give of Yourself’: Care and Love in
Pedagogical Relations

Marit Honerød Hoveid and Arnhild Finne 73

6 Another Relationship to Failure: Reflections on Beckett and
Education

Aislinn O’Donnell 89

7 Curriculum Knowledge, Justice, Relations: The Schools White
Paper (2010) in England

Christine Winter 107

8 Re-Thinking Relations in Human Rights Education: The Politics
of Narratives

Rebecca Adami 126

9 Happiness Rich and Poor: Lessons From Philosophy and
Literature

Ruth Cigman 143

10 Guattari’s Ecosophy and Implications for Pedagogy

Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer 160

11 Educational Relationships: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and
Social Justice

Morwenna Griffiths 179

Index 197

About the author

Morwenna Griffiths is the Chair of Classroom Learning in
the Moray House School of Education at Edinburgh University. Her
books include Feminisms and the Self (1995), Educational
Research for Social Justice (1998), and Action for Social
Justice in Education (2003).

Marit Honerød Hoveid is an Associate Professor at
Department of Education at NTNU, Trondheim and is currently the
Secretary General of EERA (European Educational Research
Association). Hoveid was involved in S-TEAM a 7th framework EU
Project on inquiry based methods in science and science teacher
education and co-edited a book from this project.

Sharon Todd is Professor of Education at Stockholm
University. She is the author of Learning from the Other:
Levinas, Psychoanalysis and Ethical Possibilities in Education
(2003) and Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity,
Rethinking Cosmopolitanism (2009).

Christine Winter is Senior Lecturer in the School of
Education, University of Sheffield. She is Sheffield Education
Pathway Lead for the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre and the
former Director of the University of Sheffield Ed D Programme.