Torres Olave, B. orcid.org/0000-0003-3599-1310 (2024) Trains: attention, and an ethics of the Other. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 46 (5). pp. 876-890. ISSN 1071-4413
Abstract
In this article, I think with trains to reflect about education, its rhythms, trajectories, and the possibilities that “attentive looking through windows” can afford us in moving toward just futures. Using two of Alfonsina Storni’s poems, the yellow train of Cien años de soledad as well as educational philosophy, I argue that trains can shape a way of thinking that serves standardizing purposes; which do not allow us to see the afflictions of the world. At the same time, trains can be a space in which fugitive time practices can be encouraged. By using Simone Weil’s notions of attention, I argue that a practice of attention is needed to attend to world afflictions, advance an ethics of the Other, and bring those afflictions to responsive collective spaces. In this line of thinking, trains that both pull together collective discussion and provide windows to look through are necessary. As educators, an essential task is finding ways to pedagogically value the diversity of such “look-through windows” to find collective conversations that disrupt dominant timescapes and reassert humanity for educators and students through attentive practices as acts of love.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Keywords: | Trains; attention; afflictions; justice; fugitive time |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2024 13:39 |
Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2024 09:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/10714413.2024.2314867 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:209186 |
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