Rooting, Building, and Playing: On Teaching in and for the ‘Present’
Aline Nardo (Edinburgh University)

5.30-7.15 pm

I explore how concepts of time shape our understanding of teaching. Specifically, I suggest that theories of teaching grounded in a one-dimensional chronological temporality lack a meaningful concept of the ‘present’. To counteract the resulting technicist view of teaching, I seek to 1) propose more diverse perspectives on the relationship between time, education and teaching (drawing from Dewey, Emerson, and Bergson), and 2) explore the educational significance of ‘play’ to support our ability to inhabit a meaningful present and ‘stay with the trouble’ (Haraway).

Aline Nardo is Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at the University of Edinburgh and a former Fulbright Scholar. She has published on the works of John Dewey and Lev S. Vygotsky, the intersection of theories of evolution and educational theory, and ethics education. Her current research focuses on the temporality of teaching and ‘play’ as a form of practice.

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