This article was published in Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 26, Issue 8, Author(s): Ann Chinnery, " Encountering the Philosopher as Teacher: The Pedagogical Postures of Emmanuel Levinas", Pages 1704-1709, Copyright Elsevier (November 2010).
Despite growing interest in Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics in educational theory and practice, little has been done with the fact that for over 30 years Levinas served as director of a teacher education school in Paris, and that he taught classes there for more than 40 years.
In this paper, the author focuses on Emmanuel Levinas’s classroom practices and everyday interactions with students rather than on his philosophical writings.
The author sketches three pedagogical postures Levinas embodied and discusses them in relation to ongoing philosophical work in teacher education.
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