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Toward An Educational Sphereology: Air, Wind, And Materialist Pedagogy, Derek R. Ford
Toward An Educational Sphereology: Air, Wind, And Materialist Pedagogy, Derek R. Ford
Education Studies Faculty publications
It’s not uncommon for people to make reference to atmospheres, including in relationship with educational spaces. In this article, we investigate educational atmospheres by turning to Western and Chinese literature on the air and wind. We pursue this task in three phases. First, we examine the Western literature to see the possible strings of thought that would help us reinvigorate the element of air/atmosphere as a foundational component of an educational sphere. Second, we historicize the Chinese notion of wind as a style of reasoning which structures ancient Chinese cosmology, tempo-spatiality, teaching, and governing into a grid of intelligibility. Third, …
The Pneumatic Common: Learning In, With And From The Air, Derek R. Ford
The Pneumatic Common: Learning In, With And From The Air, Derek R. Ford
Education Studies Faculty publications
Air is an immersive substance that envelopes us and binds us together, yet it has dominantly been taken for granted and left out of educational and other theorizations. This article develops a conceptualization of the pneumatic common in order to address this gap. The specific intervention staged is within recent educational literature on the common by Noah De Lissovoy, Tyson E. Lewis, and Alexander Means. This literature is surveyed and analyzed in relation to educational theory, curriculum, pedagogy, and policy. Claiming that the air is a central feature of and paradigm for the common, I then concentrate on making the …