folk myths

Kathryn_Alexander who-is-at sfu.ca
Tue, 12 May 1998 21:57:46 -0800

katherine Goff wrote 2:35 pm 5/12/98
This folk tale/myth reveals a lot about teachers' values and beleifs, but
reverse causality, teacher/student relationship, affective learning,
prolepsis-I think they're all embedded.

hmmmm, i am reminded here of Jane Gallop's book - Pedagogy: The Question of
Impersonation (Indiana University press) - which provides a psychoanalytic
take on teaching/learning student/teacher relationships - and plays with
the desires of all to be 'good students - good teachers" and some of the
more brooding semotics of these complex relationships. In particular I
reccomend the intro chapter by Gallop on "Im-personation" ( nice play on
drag/ ventriloquation and transference there) Chris Amirault "'s chapter
"the Good Teacher: The Good Student : identifications of A Student Teacher"
and Naomi Scheman On Waking Up One Morning and Discovering We are Them"
and although might be outside some of the disciplinary genres of this
mail-list - I think the wonderful word/concept prolepsis induced this
connection.

kathryn