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The Unconscious Goes to School: A Class About Teaching

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The Unconscious Goes to School: A Class About Teaching

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via Zoom
United States

Sponsored by: NCSPP

"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?

Instructor: Rachel Newcombe, LCSW, is a psychoanalyst and supervisor on Orcas Island, WA. She co-leads a writing collective of fellow therapists who share an interest in exploring ways creative non-fiction can be an aspect of professional writing. Her writing has appeared in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, The Psychoanalytic Review, Fort/Da, Rumpus, 7X7LA, and elsewhere.


Contact Person
Natasha Oxenburgh
Email
NOxenburgh@wi.edu
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