Sublime Teaching
Guest Editor: J. Jennifer Jones
Call for Papers: Sublime Teaching: Teaching as/through sublime (dis)identification
Proposals are invited for a new volume of the Romantic Pedagogy Commons on the sublime as pedagogical theory.
In
the twenty-first
century, notions
of immersion
associated with
virtuality and
digital technology
are significant
to discourse
on aesthetic experience,
the term "immersion"
having,
according to
some, entirely
superceded that
of the sublime.
In
the face of
computer-generated
virtual reality,
we might define
the term immersion
as the collapse
of critical
distance between
the subject
and object of
the gaze. With
that in mind,
what kind of
scene of instruction
is built into
the sublime
experience,
or is it antithetical
to the teaching
paradigm? Consider
Socrates's dialogues,
for
instance. The
great ones may
be 90 percent
about instruction
(they are seminars),
but then there
is the 10 percent
in which he
soars out of
the dialogue
into sublime
myth-telling. In
those moments,
does he actually
instruct, or
is something
else happening
that leaves
his students
behind except
possibly through
a kind of identification/transference
with the role of
the teacher-who-leaves-his-students-in-the-dust?
And
how does
all this
sort with
the notion
of application?
Can
there be
an applied
sublime? Are
"applied" and
"immersive"
the
same, or related,
in this
context? Is
there
not just
a transcendental
but an
immersive
sublimity? Is
there
a contrast
between
transcendental
and immersive
teaching
methods
of sublimity?
You
are invited to
submit an essay
proposal (with
title and 500-word
abstract) on
the concept of
teaching as sublime
or on some other
aspect of teaching
and the sublime. Essays
for this volume
may vary in
length
from 3,000 to
10,000 words,
and you should
indicate the
proposed length
of your submission.
Please submit
your proposal
to Jennifer
Jones by December
31, 2006.
The
online format
of the Commons can
accommodate
publications
which include
resources
such as sample
syllabi,
lesson plans,
links
to handouts,
primary
reading texts,
or
in-class exercises,
web pages or
samples
of web-based
student
activities,
full-color
illustrations
and
designs, sound
files, digital
video, and so
on.
If you plan
to use
these kinds
of elements,
please include
comments
about your plans
to do so in
your
proposal. If
you'd like
to see
examples of
what's
possible in
this
medium, you
might
take a look
at the Romantic
Circles Praxis volumes: <http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis>,
or the "Innovations"
or "Ecology" issues
of Romantic
Pedagogy
Commons, <http://www.rc.umd.edu/pedagogies/commons> All
submissions
will be peer-reviewed.
Romantic Circles
editorial staff
will adapt the
code and design
of essays and
materials to
site standards,
so submissions
may be in MS
Word or HTML
format. Final
essays (and
permissions)
will need to
be submitted
to Jennifer
Jones as e-mail
attachments
by April 1,
2007.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS: December
31, 2006.
Please submit your
proposal to J. Jennifer
Jones <jjjones@mail.uri.edu>. If you have questions about the proposed volume, or wish to discuss possible topics, please contact the editor:
J. Jennifer Jones
University of Rhode Island
mailto:jjjones@mail.uri.edu
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