Silent Moments in Education

Colette A. Granger holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Queen's University and the University of Toronto. She works in teacher education at these institutions and at York University.

• AbstractAcknowledgementsList of figuresPrologue First Circumnarrative: the sunIntroduction Silent MomentsConceptual framework: if it's not one thing, it's an OtherTelling the story: autoethnographyReading the story: discourse analysis and psychoanalysisThe shape of the study: “Every moment is two moments”PART I Second circumnarrative: the windChapter OneStories about facts: Ethnography, autoethnography, discourse analysisThe facts Ethnography and autoethnography: ways to write about thingsEducational ethnography: ways to write about school thingsDetour: Malinowski's diary, or, a funny thing happened on the way to autoethnographyAutoethnography: the researcher as one of those thingsDiscourse analysis: ways to think about thingsChapter TwoStories of stories: Narrative, memory, psychoanalysisThe field notes Reading the field notesThe personalNarrative and memoryPsychoanalytic concepts: ways of reading and thinkingThe unconsciousRepressionDeferred actionThe mystic writing-padScreen memoriesChapter ThreeField notes, felt-notes, felt and noted: Silencing learning, silencing desire The dataField notes, revised, with feeling, first partFeel-ed/felt-notes, second partFelt, and noted, third partReading the field/feel-ed/felt notes Psychoanalysis readsPsychoanalysis reads resistancePsychoanalysis reads repressionPsychoanalysis reads desireTelling and re-telling: the same old story?Difference, discourse, desire. And moving onPart II Third circumnarrative: the rainChapter FourCuriosity kills the silence: On (not) representing sex in kindergarten Mapping the body: pictures, words, silenceConstructing the child, constructing sexConstructing the child: “sitting up, shutting up and lining up” in kindergartenConstructing appropriatenessOrders and hints: reading the empty spacesChapter FiveAnother nice mess: Teachers translated by technology The computer and the teacherThe teacher's work, the teacher's power: autonomy and authorityA problem of identity: the teacher relocatedSelf, love, work: the unconscious (in) teachingTransference: the teacher in the (Lacanian) mirrorTranslating and reflecting: computer screen as pixelated mirrorPart III Fourth circumnarrative: the snowChapter SixNeither here nor there: Difficult moments in teacher education Coming to theory: assumptions and beliefs about teaching and learningResisting theory: changing minds and making troubleTroubling theory: a psychoanalytic readingSplitting (through) theory: the self dividedChapter SevenGhosts that haunt us: “Forbidden narratives” of learning to teach Thinking theory: from splitting to insightPractising practicum: coming to the dataTelling the tale: the dataPower and resistance: reading stories with FoucaultThe ghost and the host (teacher): reading stories with psychoanalysiWho do I think I am? The return of the repressedWho do I think you are? Transference in the practicumWho do I think I’m kid(d)ing?Who do I think I’m killing? Matricide and the practicumRemembering and repeating, objects and stories: what comes next?Fifth circumnarrative: the spring(in)Conclusion ConversationReflectionSilenceSecretsEthicsListeningCaring, loving, hopingEpilogue Sixth circumnarrative: around and after wordsReferences

‘Silent Moments in Education offers important insights and perspectives to education students, practitioners, and academics alike, its relevance echoing across different educational phases and locations. As such, it makes a significant contribution to understandings of the processes of teaching and learning and about what it means to write about these.’ - Laura Teague (Pedagogy, Culture and Society vol22:02:2014)