Overview

This work focuses on the ways emotions are conceived and enacted within educational settings. The author combines a theoretical approach with examples taken from her teaching in order to provide both an insightful and practical guide for teachers and other interested scholars in the field. The book should be of interest to any teacher who has dealt with the pedagogical implications of using emotional material in the psychology of education. Boler draws on feminist theory, pedagogical theory, philosophy, psychoanalysis and cultural studies to explore the complexities of emotion and power. Chapter topics include: emotional literacy, empathy, conscious and unconscious reactions, emotion and the influences of media and technology.

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Author:   Megan Boler ,  Maxine Greene
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.660kg
ISBN:  

9780415921039

ISBN 10:   0415921031
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   23 February 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, PART 1: Emotions as a Site of Social Control, CHAPTER ONE. FEELING POWER, CHAPTER TWO. DISCIPLINED EMOTIONS, CHAPTER THREE. CAPITALIZING ON EMOTIONAL “SKILLS”, CHAPTER FOUR. TAMING THE LABILE STUDENT, PART II: Emotions as a Site of Political Resistance, CHAPTER FIVE. A FEMINIST POLITICS OF EMOTION, CHAPTER SIX. LICENSE TO FEEL, CHAPTER SEVEN. THE RISKS OF EMPATHY, CHAPTER EIGHT. A PEDAGOGY OF DISCOMFORT, Bibliography, Author Index, Subject Index

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Feeling Power is a bold and provocative book whose breadth of inquiry is stunning...Boler takes the reader on a wide-ranging interdisciplinary exploration... This book is both exciting and useful. It is a helpful resource for those of us who keep looking for better pedagogies to address ethical dilemmas in our college and university classrooms. And it is a wonderful book for anyone fascinated by the politics of emotions and by their role in ethical reasoning.. <br>- Hypatia, Barbara Houston <br> This book makes a fundamental contribution to feminist theory. Feeling Power gives rare insight into the politics of emotion in education. Boler is passionate about centering emotion in our understanding of intelligence and social action. <br>-Donna Haraway, author of Modest Witness@Second Millenium.FemaleMan Meets OncoMouse: Feminism and Technoscience <br> This book argues for the need to situate the often isolated and isolating work we do in education in a historical and political framework - one that accounts for class, economic, and power relationships that we both identify with and are identified within. . . Boler ruptures the 'absent presence' of emotions in our professional lives; that is, she dares to move emotion away from the terrain of the unspeakable and into the territory of the spoken, considered, and hence 'knowable.'. . . Feeling Power is a text that promises discomfort, and might very well move us from complacency to action, from slumber to consciousness. . . For its power to unsettle the commonplaces of thought, for its power to cause us to recognize discomfort as a starting point of critique, we should all commend the author of Feeling Power --Jennifer Driscoll (Univ. ofWisconsin - Milwaukee) for JAC, Vol. 20.3 (2000). <br> Feeling Power is a groundbreaking work that strikes a mortal blow against the separation of reason and emotion that has defined our thinking about the role emotions play in our lives. Boler's impressive and historically-informed study provides powerful new directions for thinking about emotions in relation to social control, education, and resistance. <br>-Sandra Lee Bartky, author of Femininity and Domination: Studies in the Phenomenology of Oppression <br> Feeling Power is a wide-ranging, thought provoking and stimulating analysis of an important and little-examined nexus: the place of emotion in cognition, power and pedagogy. <br>-Ruth Frankenberg, author of White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of Whiteness <br>

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Virginia Polytechnic University, and has published widely in the areas of cultural studies, feminist studies and philosophy.

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