TASKs for democracy

Times when you discovered you had been deceived by the absence of knowledge
Times when you became dissatisfied with school knowledge
14. Thinking about experiences of time in learning and teaching.
Times when you felt as if your response in the present was really about something that had happened
in the past
Times when your learning occurred much later than the lesson
Times when your fantasies or rehearsals about teaching or learning failed you
Times when you began to question what you were learning
Times when you began to question why you were learning
Times when teaching or learning felt fragmented
15. Thinking about encounters with obstacles.
Times when your writing was blocked
Times when your reading was blocked
Times when your communication with others was blocked
Times when you lost interest
A different kind of question
Thinking about your story, how would you describe the qualities of knowledge and where would you place
the difficulty?
Adapted from Difficult Knowledge in Teaching and Learning: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry (designed by Professors
Deborah Britzman and Alice Pitt, Faculty of Education, York University.)
Activity 38 – Dealing with difficult knowledge Page 207