On Thinking Differently About Educational Encounters

Abstract

In this chapter, we foreground the self in relation to the internal self and others. It makes sense to look self-reflexively at the self for that moment of internal reflection would make the self presenting herself in a distinctively virtuous way. Unless, the self internally suppresses violence such as dehumanisation and undignified acts of aggression, educational encounters would not necessarily embody virtues of humanity in terms of which humanisation can advance. Drawing on the seminal thoughts of Touraine we endeavour to think more self-reflexively about educational encounters.