Holding, Grasping, and Responding: Imaginaries of Emotional Relationships in Education

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Abstract

This paper develops an understanding of how the persistent question of getting to know others under the care and responsibility of a profession like teaching resurfaces the problem of how education envisions encounters between adults and children and students and teachers. Moving to a more specific focus on the emotional environment of education, this paper condenses its focus to the question of understanding how contact is made meaningful in educational relationships. This theoretical research takes up discourses of responsive education as a subject of analysis and uses two illustrative narrative examples, one a literary short story (Galchen 2019) and the other a revisiting of the visual research and institutional critiques of infant care of psychoanalytic psychiatrist, René Spitz (1949; 1974)

Authors

• Lucille Angus, York University

• Aziz Guzel, York University