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Art, Disobedience, and Ethics

The Adventure of Pedagogy

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Authors:
  1. Dennis Atkinson

    1. Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths University of London, London, United Kingdom

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  • First book to employ the philosophical writing of Alfred North Whitehead in this field to examine processes of learning and pedagogical work
  • Focuses upon real learning and pedagogical work and their relational and intensive processes of 'becoming'
  • Presents the notion of disobedience in relation to pedagogic work, art practice and ethics

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Pragmatics and Ethics of the Suddenly Possible

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 1-11

  3. Restoring Pedagogic Work to the Incipience and Immanence of Learning: Disobedient Pedagogies

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 13-37

  4. Spinoza and the Challenge of Building a Life

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 39-57

  5. The Force of Art and Learning: Building a Life

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 59-63

  6. Whitehead’s Adventure

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 65-90

  7. Ethics and Politics in Pedagogic Work

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 91-117

  8. Becoming in the Middle

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 119-153

  9. The Force of Art

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 155-191

  10. Pedagogy and Events of Disobedience

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 193-204

  11. Pedagogic Work: An Ethics of Building a Life

    • Dennis Atkinson
    Pages 205-226

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 227-236
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About this book

This book explores art practice and learning as processes that break new ground, through which new perceptions of self and world emerge. Examining art practice in educational settings where emphasis is placed upon a pragmatics of the ‘suddenly possible’, Atkinson looks at the issues of ethics, aesthetics, and politics of learning and teaching. These learning encounters drive students beyond the security of established patterns of learning into new and modified modes of thinking, feeling, seeing, and making. 

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  “In his latest book, Art, Disobedience, and Ethics: The Adventure of Pedagogy, Dennis Atkinson raises the fundamental issues of learning and pedagogy. His questioning of the way in which we understand basic educational processes has been a feature of his work for many years now, and I welcome his latest intervention at this difficult time for the arts in education. Atkinson’s method is to explicate an existing philosophy, often one that is not directly concerned with education, and then apply it to art and educational practices in order to refresh our thinking about what we might otherwise think of as commonplace. For me its major contribution, and therefore its chief value, lies in its skilful and scholarly arguments for the profoundly disruptive power and potential of real learning, whilst yet insisting upon its highly unpredictable and contingent nature.” (Jeff Adams, Professor of Education at the University of Chester, England, and Principal Editor of iJADE)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Dennis Atkinson

About the author

Dennis Atkinson is Professor Emeritus at Goldsmiths University of London, UK. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Art, Disobedience, and Ethics

  • Book Subtitle: The Adventure of Pedagogy

  • Authors: Dennis Atkinson

  • Series Title: Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62639-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62638-3Published: 02 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87361-9Published: 18 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62639-0Published: 13 September 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2945-7599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-7602

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 236

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Creativity and Arts Education, Curriculum Studies, Educational Psychology

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