Prosperous teaching and the thing of darkness: Raising a Tempest in the classroom

Liam E. Semler, Kate Flaherty
2016 Cogent Arts & Humanities  
This essay uses Shakespeare's The Tempest as a way of conceptualising modern institutional education. The over-systematisation of formal education which characterises professional teaching and learning in the twenty-first century is designated "SysEd." The flaws in SysEd are discussed and a less structured space of educational experience, named "ardenspace," is described in theoretical and practical terms. The idea of an institutional counterpublic is deployed to take account of the student
more » ... ence being evoked by teaching that resists SysEd. The characters and plot of The Tempest are used to embody this argument.
doi:10.1080/23311983.2016.1235862 fatcat:wq5sy5gphjfc7ocjllhf2lgsri