The Temporal Transcendence of the Teacher as Other
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8859257 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clarence W Joldersma (0000-0003-1058-7290, Education Department, Calvin College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 393-404 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Philosophy and Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1857 • E-ISSN: 1469-5812 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00131857.2015.1041010 |
| OpenAlex | W2286171769 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
Over the last decades, education has shifted more clearly to a learner-centered understanding, including particularly constructivism, leaving little room conceptually for a substantive role for the teacher. This article develops a Levinasian framework for understanding the teacher as other. It begins by exploring the spatial metaphors of Levinas’s idea of the teacher as transcendent but shifts to Levinas’s idea of time as instants (durations) that come to the ego as a gift from the future. The article employs these temporal metaphors to understand better the transcendence of the teacher
Constructivism (international relations · Epistemology · Id, ego and super-ego · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Transcendence (philosophy · Educational Philosophies and Pedagogies · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |