The Unconscious Goes To School: A Class About Teaching

To teach is to bring our questions to others, to share as teacher and as students in this process of thinking about who we are on the Earth.
About this Event

This educational course meets online on Friday, January 24, 2025, and Friday, February 7, 2025, from 2:00PM - 4:00PM

THE UNCONSCIOUS GOES TO SCHOOL: A Class About Teaching

To teach is to bring our questions to others, to share as teacher and as students in this process of thinking about who we are on the Earth.

Rebecca A. Martusewicz, “Say Me to Me: Desire and Education”*

Education is never a neutral endeavor. The classroom is an environment where teachers and students bring hopes, fears, and unconscious fantasies about what it means to learn. Teaching requires a love of one’s subject matter and a willingness to understand the disruptive nature of learning, for teacher and student. The multi-layered dimension of teaching requires an attentiveness to the teacher/student dyad and unconscious process as it unfolds in a classroom.

This course will include classroom experience where we read and explore what it means to provoke learning.

Topics to be explored:

Why teach?
What constitutes a “mistake” in teaching?
How do you engage a resistant learner?
What ways do you encounter and work with negative and positive transferences in the classroom?
Difference as an ethical encounter
How can you engage unconscious process to enhance learning?
How can teachers listen to what is not being said?

*In Learning Desire: Perspectives on Pedagogy, Culture, and the Unsaid (New York: Routledge, 1998), 97-116.

Fore more details about this event, CE, and general information, please visit https://ncspp.org/events/unconscious-goes-school-class-about-teaching