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ERIC Number: EJ998129
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013-Feb
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-2004
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Pedagogies of Hauntology in History Education: Learning to Live with the Ghosts of Disappeared Victims of War and Dictatorship
Zembylas, Michalinos
Educational Theory, v63 n1 p69-86 Feb 2013
Michalinos Zembylas examines how history education can be reconceived in terms of Jacques Derrida's notion of "hauntology," that is, as an ongoing conversation with the "ghost"--in the case of this essay, the ghosts of disappeared victims of war and dictatorship. Here, Zembylas uses hauntology as both metaphor and pedagogical methodology for deconstructing the orthodoxies of academic history thinking and learning about "the disappeared." As metaphor, hauntology evokes the figure of the ghost in order both to trouble the hegemonic status of representational modes of knowledge in remembrance practices and to undermine their ontological frames and ideological histories. As pedagogical methodology, hauntology reframes histories of loss and absence and uses them as points of departure to acknowledge the complexities and contradictions that emerge from haunting. "Pedagogies of hauntology" are constituted as responses to "spectacle pedagogy" in teaching about the disappeared, that is, a ubiquitous form of representation that manifests the ghosts in a sensationalized and ideological manner. (Contains 59 footnotes.)
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Language: English
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