The Touch of the Present: Educational Encounters, Aesthetics, and the Politics of the Senses

by Sharon Todd

Book Overview

How are educational encounters understood, experienced, and lived? How are they conceptualized? How do they shape our being in and of the world? In this time of apparent distance and disconnect, this volume emphasizes the role of contact and connectedness in education, above all by understanding education as encounters, as embodied, sensory experiences. Drawing on a range of theoretical positions that highlight our profound interconnection with things...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438492189
• ISBN13: 9781438492186
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"