Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1: Re-reading Diotima: Resources for a Relational Pedagogy -- I INTRODUCING DIOTIMA -- II DIOTIMA, ARENDT AND NATALITY -- III DIOTIMA, LYOTARD AND INFANCY -- IV DIOTIMA, IRIGARAY AND THE GENERATIVE ENCOUNTER -- V RE-THINKING DEPENDENCIES AND POWER RELATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 2: Towards a Thinking and Practice of Sexual Difference: Putting the Practice of Relationship at the Centre -- INTRODUCTION-EQUALITY IS NOT ENOUGH: BRINGING THE PRACTICE OF RELATIONSHIP INTO THE FOREGROUND -- LUCE IRIGARAY AND THE IMPLICATIONS IN EDUCATION OF HER CHALLENGE TO RETHINK THE WORLD -- SEXUAL DIFFERENCE AS POLITICAL STRATEGY -- THE MILAN WOMEN'S BOOKSTORE COLLECTIVE AND DIOTIMA: THE PRACTICE OF RELATIONSHIP ITSELF AS A POLITICAL FORM -- THE SYMBOLIC ORDER OF THE MOTHER-LUISA MURARO -- QUESTIONS IN EDUCATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3: 'New Fatherhood' and the Politics of Dependency -- MATERNAL, PATERNAL, AND PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT -- HONOURING THE MAN WHO PAYS -- DEPENDENCE AND EQUALITY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4: Between Body and Spirit: The Liminality of Pedagogical Relationships -- THE LIMINAL IMAGINATION, METAPHOR AND EDUCATION -- THE PEDAGOGICAL AS AN EVERYDAY EXISTENTIAL EXPERIENCE -- THE LIMINAL QUALITY OF RELATIONSHIPS -- LIMINAL PEDAGOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS AND EDUCATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 5: 'You Have to Give of Yourself': Care and Love in Pedagogical Relations -- INTRODUCTION -- THE NOTION OF 'TWO'AND A RELATIONAL SPACE OF 'IN-BETWEEN' -- 'CARING ABOUT' IN HUMAN (INTER)ACTION -- CARE AND THE LOVE IN-BETWEEN -- INTERPRETING RELATIONS IN PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES REQUIRES A MORE COMPLEX THEORY OF ACTIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 6: Another Relationship to Failure: Reflections on Beckett and Education -- DO I ASK TOO MUCH? -- AN ANTI-HEROIC CURRICULUM.

THE IDOLS OF PRESTIGE, PROGRESS AND PERFECTION -- FEELING LIKE A FAILURE -- FEAR OF FAILURE -- I'LL GO ON -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 7: Curriculum Knowledge, Justice, Relations: The Schools White Paper (2010) in England -- CURRICULUM KNOWLEDGE IN ENGLAND: A BRIEF BACKGROUND -- THINKING CURRICULUM KNOWLEDGE ALONGSIDE LEVINAS AND DERRIDA -- THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING: THE SCHOOLS WHITE PAPER (DfE, 2010) -- REIMAGINING CURRICULUM (AS/THROUGH RELATION) -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8: Re-Thinking Relations in Human Rights Education: The Politics of Narratives -- INTRODUCTION: TENSIONS IN HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION -- A RELATIONAL APPROACH IN HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION -- THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS FROM 1948: BASED ON DIFFERENT HISTORICAL NARRATIVES -- HUMAN RIGHTS LEARNING IN A WIDER UNIVERSAL CONTEXT -- RELATIONS THROUGH NARRATION: REIFYING OF RENEWING THE WORLD? -- COUNTERNARRATIVES IN A WORLD OF PLURALISM -- NARRATIVITY AS POLITICAL IMAGINARY IN PEDAGOGICAL RELATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9: Happiness Rich and Poor: Lessons From Philosophy and Literature -- I HAPPINESS SCEPTICISM -- II THE JOY OF LIVING -- III THE LIMITS OF WORTHWHILE HAPPINESS -- IV MAKING OTHERS HAPPY -- V LESSONS FROM PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE -- VI CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 10: Guattari's Ecosophy and Implications for Pedagogy -- GUATTARI'S ECOSOPHY -- READING 'DIRECT INSTRUCTION' THROUGH ECOSOPHY -- READING CRITICAL PEDAGOGY THROUGH ECOSOPHY -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 11: Educational Relationships: Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and Social Justice -- INTRODUCTION -- ROUSSEAU'S ÉMILE AND WOLLESTONECRAFT'S VINDICATION -- Educational Relationships in the Present Affecting Relationships in the Future -- Between Teacher and Student(s) -- Between Human Beings and the More-Than-Human -- OUTDOOR EDUCATION AS AN EXAMPLE.

Wilderness and the Outdoors. Human Beings in Relationship with the More-Than-Human -- The Outdoors in Educational Practice -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Index.