Session Information
06 SES 9.5 PE/PS, Poster Exhibition / Poster Session
Contribution
The aim of this proposal is to offer a new approach to media education based upon an understanding of an education which focuses on desire and thus preoccupied for the role of school when it comes to let students rethink themselves as desiring subjects.
Moreover, we seek to find an analytical framework that offers a change in paradigm in relation to school environment in order to think of pedagogical approaches that take desire as a main feature to build an interesting and integrated education.
“Perhaps some pedagogies and curriculum work with students not because of what they teach nor how they teach. Maybe they work because they allow students to imagine themselves in terms of being and acting”
(Ellsworth, 2005:50)
Taking Lacanian and Deleuzianian approaches to desire and focusing on its constructive and critical nature, we call for a reflective and subjective exercise about the place that media discourses and images have in the construction of the postmodern subject.
Objectives
The main object of this proposal is to offer an approach that makes visible the media discourses that contribute in the configuration of our subjectivity in order to make connections between what is seen and read and the construction of our subjectivities (Padilla & Hernández, 2010). Overall, our main intention is to help desiring subjects to move from the “where we are positioned” to the “where we desire to be positioned”.
The research question
How can repressed desires and gotten media discourses be put together in a work that focuses on the construction of the desiring subject?
Having this question in mind we propose to bring into the school a work that takes into account this construction of the desiring subject: the production of what we call an auto-media-graphy. What we want to make explicit with this production is the process in which the subject by encountering “others” in a specific social, economic and cultural context, establishes a dialogue with them and through these encounters is where the desiring subject is created. Thus, every new encounter means a new possibility for the subject to be thought and constructed allowing them to overcome fixed identities thanks to a continuous process of becoming.
An interesting part of this process is the fact that the repressed desires or “ghostly traces” as Ellsworth calls them, are given a special role, in order to bring into a conscious stage what relies in the unconscious one.
The research’s focus
Although our proposal is understood within the Media Education field, it also seeks to rethink the pedagogical relationship from a desired education point of view. Consequently, we understand the desiring subject as the one that needs to encounter “other” subjects (as media discourses) to rethink itself. In this understanding, what we “don’t know” becomes an important point in the learning process. That is to say, desire becomes an important pedagogical element that puts both student and teacher in the same level when the main point is the desire to learn with and from the other.
Method
Expected Outcomes
References
Deleuze, G. (1995). Deseo y placer. Archipiélago. Cuadernos de crítica de la cultura Hargreaves, A.; et al (1998). Una educación para el cambio. Reinventar la educación de los adolescentes. Barcelona: Octaedro. Hernández, F. (2004). Culturas juveniles, prácticas de subjetivación y educación escolar. Andalucía Educativa, 46, 22-24 Lacan, J. (1978). La metáfora del sujeto. La letra y el deseo. Argentina: Ediciones Homo Sapiens. Larrauri, M. (2007). El deseo según Deleuze. Valencia: Editorial Tándem. Mitchell, W. J. T. (2005). Drawing desire. A What do pictures want? The lives and loves of images. The University of Chicago Press, (pp.57-75). Padilla, P; Hernández, F. (2010). Jacques Lacan’s Conception of Desire in a Course on Psychology of Art for Fine Arts Students, Visual Arts Education, 36(2), 63-74.
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