Returning to the Other, Returning to Levinas: The Impossibility of Satisfaction in Intercultural Communication

Autor/inn/en	Manoff, Itamar; Ruitenberg, Claudia W.
Titel	Returning to the Other, Returning to Levinas: The Impossibility of Satisfaction in Intercultural Communication
Quelle	In: Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 31 (2023) 2, S.253-267 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1366
DOI	10.1080/14681366.2022.2164342
Schlagwörter	Intercultural Communication; Ethics; Teacher Student Relationship; Educational Philosophy; Adult Students; Immigrants; Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Learning Experience; Barriers; Politics of Education; Criticism; Acculturation; Language Teachers; Phenomenology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Ethik; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Adult; Adults; Student; Students; Erwachsenenalter; Studentin; Schüler; Schülerin; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Lernerfahrung; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Kritik; Akkulturation; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie
Abstract	How can Levinas's work help language educators respond ethically to encounters with students? This paper considers this question in the context of adult immigrants learning an additional language, and is interested specifically in the existential aspects of language learning. How does the experience of "coming into being" in a new language play out in the classroom encounter, and how, if at all, can language teachers respond ethically to this experience? The paper discusses three challenges when considering Levinas's ethics to answer this question. The first is that language education is dominated by what Levinas calls 'the Said'. The second is that the impossibility of knowing whether one has responded ethically results in a compulsive return to the pedagogical scene. The third and final challenge involves the tensions between Levinas's ethics and political critiques of language education. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01