The Impossible Witnessing, The Pedagogical Possibilities: Theoretical Framing
What characterises witnessing and testimony as phenomena? What is meant by their pedagogical possibilities? To begin to answer these questions, Hållander creates a framework in this chapter for the theoretical approach applied in the book, highlighting an
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Marie Hållander
The Pedagogical Possibilities of Witnessing and Testimonies
Marie Hållander
The Pedagogical Possibilities of Witnessing and Testimonies Through the Lens of Agamben
Marie Hållander School of Culture and Education Södertörn University Stockholm, Sweden
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For Essi and Edith
Foreword
What does it mean to testify about what has left traces within our bodies? What possibilities are there in witnessing and in the testimony? This book is about the pedagogical possibilities of making one’s voice heard from an exposed position, it is about how wounds are represented in teaching, about the feelings that may arise in the meeting with testimonies and what these voices and feelings can do and create. Throughout this book I want to discuss how witnessing is an impossibility, where words stand against words and where to give a testimony can mean an “if you win, you lose” situation. But I also want to discuss how witnessing can be subversive. How witnessing can involve other people. Through witnessing we can create movements, change things, in our schools, in our workplaces, in our streets and in our homes. The work I have now completed is a work that I have been undertaking for more than ten years, from the very start of my application to the PhD position, to these words that I am here now writing. A decade has passed, and so many testimonies, conversations and disc
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