ERIC Number: EJ1021431
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 13
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Inviting Discomfort: Foregrounding Emotional Labour in Teaching Anthropology in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Macdonald, Helen Mary
Teaching in Higher Education, v18 n6 p670-682 2013
This article examines the potential and limitations of Megan Boler's "pedagogy of discomfort" in a post-apartheid yet heavily racialised South Africa. Taking an 'ethnographic sensibility' to anthropological teaching, this paper sketches the social and historical context of discomfort produced by everyday classroom practices at a historically privileged university. This paper argues that new patterns of thought, if achieved at all in the course of learning through "discomfort", are deeply embedded within uneasy social relationships.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Anthropology, Conflict, Social Justice, Emotional Response, Power Structure, Racial Factors, Empowerment, Interpersonal Relationship, Role, History
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: South Africa
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