ABSTRACT
As well as achieving the goal of examining the task of the teacher, this text aims to inspire educators to put into question their own position as educators, in the broadest sense of the word. Joanna and Walter take as their point of departure Rancière’s conceptualisation of the difference between an emancipating and a stultifying teacher. They pay particular attention to certain dispositions and actions by the teacher (Sara Stanley), which are not discussed elsewhere in this book. In the film footage of Sara, the children, the text and the classroom, they become attentive to the expression and atmosphere of ignorance and uncertainty, the character of her attention to the complexity of processes unfolding in each event. They ask: What happens when we work backwards and ignorantly explore one short, yet rich and complex, teaching event? Throughout the chapter, they remain conscious of tensions between the humanism of Rancière’s work and the posthumanism of the research project of which they are a part.
