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Provocations: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education

  • JP Robertson
  • , Cathryn Elizabeth McConaghy

    Research output: Book/ReportBookEdited

    Abstract

    No twentieth-century woman/teacher has provoked as much interest and perplexity as Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1908-1984). Her life reveals the fascinating dilemmas of classroom erotics, the dangers of intimacy in teaching and learning, the difficult and ambiguous nature of post-heterosexual attachments in women's biographies, and the powerful fantasy that the objects of teaching lives are other than our own teaching selves. Provocations: Sylvia Ashton-Warner and Excitability in Education provides a groundbreaking and timely feminist re-visioning of Ashton-Warner. This book speaks not only to her enigmatic survivals, but also to education's own submission to excitability and provocation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Place of PublicationNew York, United States of America
    PublisherPeter Lang Publishing, Inc
    Number of pages214
    Edition1
    ISBN (Print)9780820478777, 0820478776
    Publication statusPublished - 2006

    Publication series

    NameComplicated Conversation: A Book Series of Curriculum Studies
    No.13
    ISSN (Electronic)1534-2816

    Keywords

    • Sociology of Education

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