Charles Bingham is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University and coeditor (with Alexander M. Sidorkin) of No Education Without Relation and author of Schools of Recognition: Identity Politics and Classroom Practices.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Authority Is Relational 1. Texts and the Authority Relation 2. The Literary Relation of Authority 3. Relating to Authority Figures Who Are Not There 4. When Faced with Authority 5. Questioning Authority 6. Paulo Freire and Relational Authority NotesReferencesIndex

"The book is written with great clarity and in a personal style making it accessible to undergraduate students, without sacrificing a nuanced analysis that will be appreciated by graduate students, curriculum theorists, and philosophers of education." — CHOICE"Charles Bingham debunks the notion that teaching and learning are straightforward practices that can be improved by doing something 'other' or 'more,' an important contribution in the midst of dominant discourses that would have education be about the 'test/improve, test/improve' Sisyphean cycle. He turns our attention to the messy operation of human interaction, encouraging us to enrich our notions of authority and relation, which in turn enriches our notions of learning at the level of both schools and universities. This is one philosophical text that, refreshingly, does not shy away from examining classroom applications." — Kate Evans, author of Negotiating the Self: Identity, Sexuality, and Emotion in Learning to Teach