Location: PCN 2012 6445 University Blvd
Date: April 4th, 2024 4:30 pm to 6 pm
About: In this symposium, Aparna Tarc (York University) will discuss questions related to the relationship between education and politics in dialogue with Sam Rocha (EDST). These questions might begin with Hannah Arendt’s claim that education is pre-political, but they do not end there. For instance, there are numerous questions about the role of the teacher in a classroom where the world of politics is at most present and at least looming. The purpose of this dialogue is not to sow doubt into the moral and political realities of education so much as think about education, to study it, as a disputed and therefore “thinkable” concept.
Bio: Aparna Mishra Tarc is scholar and associate professor of the literary humanities in education. She was formerly an elementary school teacher in the Philippines, Vietnam and Canada. She is author of over fifty articles and chapters and of two manuscripts: *Literacy of the Other: Renarrating Humanity* (SUNY Press) and *Pedagogy in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee* (Routledge).
