1st Edition

Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct

    258 Pages
    by Routledge

    258 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on ‘public pedagogies’, the notion of cultural pedagogies signals the importance of the pedagogic in realms other than institutionalised education, but goes beyond the notion of public pedagogies in two ways: it includes spaces which are not so public, and it includes an emphasis on material and non-human actors.





    This collection foregrounds this broader understanding of pedagogy by framing enquiry through a series of questions and across a range of settings. How, for example, are the processes of ‘teaching’ and ‘learning’ realised within and across the pedagogic processes specific to various social sites? What ensembles of people, things and practices are brought together in specific institutional and everyday settings to accomplish these processes?





    This collection brings together researchers whose work across the interdisciplinary nexus of cultural studies, sociology, media studies, education and museology offers significant insights into these ‘cultural pedagogies’ – the practices and relations through which cumulative changes in how we act, feel and think occur. Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct opens up debate across disciplines, theoretical perspectives and empirical foci to explore both what is pedagogical about culture and what is cultural about pedagogy.

    Foreword  1. Pedagogy: The unsaid of socio-cultural theory  PART I: Pedagogical Processes and Relations  2. Unpacking Pedagogy: Didactics, paideia and how we come to be  3. Pedagogies of Civic Belonging  4. The Problem of Pedagogy and Everyday Life or When is Pedagogy not a Pedagogy?  PART II: Shaping Conduct/Forming Citizens  5. The Plastic Adolescent: Classification and minority  6. Little Publics and Youth Arts as Cultural Pedagogy  7. Helping Themselves: Men and the kitchen  8. Cultural Pedagogies and the Logics of Culture: Learning to be a ‘community type of person’  PART III: Institutional Pedagogies  9. Learning to be an Academic: Tacit and explicit pedagogies  10. Educating for Inequality: Indigenous schooling in Northern Australia  11. Cultural Pedagogies in the Museum: Walking, listening and feeling  PART IV: Habituation, Affect and Materialities  12. Habits of Mood: Cultural pedagogy and home-front morale in Britain in the Second World War  13. An Autoethnography of Strings: An experiment in materialising learning  14. Yoga: Cultural pedagogy and embodied ethics  15. Pedagogies of Incorporation: Touch and the technology of writing





     

    Biography

    Megan Watkins is Associate Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society and School of Education, University of Western Sydney.



    Greg Noble is Professor in the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney.



    Catherine Driscoll is Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney.