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ERIC Number: EJ612506
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0017-8055
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The Thing Never Speaks for Itself: Lacan and the Pedagogical Politics of Clarity.
Aoki, Douglas Sadao
Harvard Educational Review, v70 n3 p347-69 Fall 2000
Asserts that teaching conceived of as translation of complex material into plain language is actually refusal to teach. Using Lacan's psychoanalytic theory, describes teaching framed by clarity is suspect and exclusionary. States that no text speaks for itself, without context. (Author/SK)
Descriptors: Jargon, Politics of Education, Teacher Clarity, Teaching (Occupation)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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