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Educational resistance in a runaway world: Poetic meditations on power and surveillance

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posted on 2023-05-18, 10:10 authored by Michael Corbett
It is becoming clear that standard, linear solutions to the problems of resistant children are problematic because they imagine a world of schooling in which place and power do not matter. Poetry can challenge the typically linear, prescriptive, and modernist assumptions that are central to much educational theory and practice. In this article, drawing on original poetry composed in and around schools, I analyze a series of reflective disruptions in the interplay of strategy and tactics in my own teaching career. The broad argument of this paper is that educators ought to recognize, promote and embrace the messiness and complexity of our work rather than retreat into simplifications and technical fixes.

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Publication title

McGill journal of education

Volume

43

Pagination

225-244

ISSN

0024-9033

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

McGill University, Faculty of Education

Place of publication

Canada

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Copyright 2008 McGill journal of education

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  • Open

Socio-economic Objectives

Expanding knowledge in education

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