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By Jan Smith, Julie Rattray, Tai Peseta

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ISBN-13: 9789463003087

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Educational identities study is a starting to be region of scholarly enquiry specifically as lecturers themselves query the evolving nature in their roles in rapidly-changing collage environments. Performative frameworks in lots of international locations worldwide replicate those adjustments and this quantity brings a couple of disciplinary views to endure on how we comprehend the lived studies of educational lifestyles in a world context. individuals discover the ability of conceptual instruments drawn from Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology and Politics to problem more and more instrumental neoliberal political ways to better schooling, supported via empirical facts. priceless educating, studying and learn require major own funding, and the ebook can pay specific recognition to the deeply affective dimensions of present educational practices. partly One, instruments to conceptualise educational identity-work drawn from foundational educational disciplines are utilized to modern greater schooling practices. half foregrounds how operating in universities at the present time proceeds, with a specific concentrate on how lecturers reply to the multiplicity of institutional calls for. the main urgent perceived call for, supported via contributions partially 3, is booklet: the necessity to be 'visible' to 'count' is now a world valuable, with the affective dimensions now not but well-understood at coverage point. partially 4, those that aid colleagues negotiating a reconfigured educational terrain discover efficient ways in the direction of this activity to make sure that educational perform continues to be rooted within the values formerly defined. This publication might be of curiosity to these operating in universities globally who search a deeper appreciation of the contextual drivers that form educational paintings.

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Human beings could find peace of mind and contentment by realising, firstly, the true nature and significance of pleasure; and secondly, how simple it is to avoid pain whilst satisfying basic human needs. 17 Epicurus identified the state of lacking pain in the body as an intrinsically pleasant state worth having. , 2008). The rational person will not act to avoid every pain. Sometimes, humans will trade off a temporary pain in the hope of greater pleasure to follow. , 2008). Epicurus believed that a wise person would secure their autarkeia by pursuing class 1 pleasures, avoiding class 3 and limiting exposure to class 2 pleasures by exercising self-restraint.

The doctrines of Stoicism are known almost exclusively through a series of later secondary sources including Diogenes Laertius (second century CE) and the ‘doxographers’, literary hacks who reported the views but seldom the arguments of the Stoics, often jumbling together the opinions of different generations of Stoics as they described Stoic doctrines with the sole purpose of refuting them. Some recent commentators have been drawn to the discourses of the Roman Stoic Epictetus, which convey something of his pedagogic impact upon students (Long, 2002; Stephens, 2007; Irvine, 2008).

As Brookfield (2002) observes, the automaton conformist credo dictates one must not be different or peculiar in any way: one must adjust to prevailing realities rather than question them. Curiosity is antithetical to successful adjustment to the prevailing reality of global neo-liberal capitalism, and a corporatized higher education increasingly focused on preparing students for employment. 34 A LABOUR OF LOVE? But why is this fear of being curious so strong? Fromm (2003) argues that its power is rooted in the peculiarity of the human condition.

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