Out of the kumbla

For it is certainly easier to create without answering for life, and easier to live without consideration for art. Art and life are not one, but they must become united in myself—in the unity of my answerability. (Bakhtin, 1990: 2) There is something fundamentally scary about pedagogy because pedagogy references the unknown. Despite our best authorial intentions, no guarantees mediate our private lesson plans or the public effects of the pedagogical encounter ... In fact, what seems certain is that after the pedagogical encounter we must return to our plans, rethink our expectations, and theorize the tensions of multiple performances that compete for our attention. (Britzman, 1991: 60)

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