Pedagogical Pleasures - Erica McWilliam

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Résumé :
Pedagogical Pleasures inquires into pleasure (understood as enjoyment, delight, and/or gratification) as a crucial but neglected aspect of teachers' lives and work. Pleasure is examined as an historically contingent and unstable product of language use, rather than as a spontaneous, personal, and psychological?feeling.? This book is a departure from conventional accounts of pedagogy in two ways: It is unashamedly about teachers rather than students, and it does not offer any solution to pedagogical problems. Instead, it seeks to extend pedagogical knowledge by inquiring into the sorts of pleasure that are available to teachers at this historical time.

Biographie:
The Author: Erica McWilliam is Associate Professor in the School of Cultural and Policy Studies at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Her doctoral dissertation at the University of Queensland, and her subsequent publications, attest to her strong interest in applying postmodern theory to contemporary pedagogical practice.