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SUMMARY:‘The Gentle Art of Teaching: Camus\, Taoism and Education’ - P
 rofessor Peter Roberts\, University of Canterbury\, Christchurch\, New Zea
 land
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to teach?  How might lives be transformed by
  teaching?  What tensions must be negotiated by those whose who are taught
 ?  This paper addresses these questions in relation to Albert Camus’s po
 sthumously published semi-autobiographical novel\, The First Man.  I ident
 ify two key pedagogical figures in the life of the novel’s central chara
 cter\, Jacques Cormery: his elementary school teacher\, Mr Bernard\, and h
 is mother.  Mr Bernard adopts a strict but loving attitude toward the stud
 ents in his classroom\; Jacques’s mother provides a quiet\, subtle demon
 stration of teaching as a gentle art.  I attempt to understand these two a
 pproaches in the light of Taoist ideas\, paying particular attention to th
 e theme of acceptance and resistance.  The analysis offered here\, I sugge
 st\, has broader implications for the way we think about teaching across t
 he human lifespan.\n\n****\n\nPeter Roberts is Professor of Education at t
 he University of Canterbury in New Zealand.  His primary areas of scholars
 hip are philosophy of education and educational policy studies.  He has pu
 blished widely in international journals. He is the author or editor of te
 n books\, the most recent of which include Paulo Freire in the 21st Centur
 y: Education\, Dialogue\, and Transformation (2010)\, The Virtues of Openn
 ess: Education\, Science\, and Scholarship in the Digital Age\, with Micha
 el Peters (2011)\, and From West to East and Back Again: An Educational Re
 ading of Hermann Hesse’s Later Work (2012).  Professor Roberts is Direct
 or of the Educational Theory\, Policy and Practice Research Hub at the Uni
 versity of Canterbury\, and Vice-President of the Philosophy of Education 
 Society of Australasia.  In 2010 he was a Canterbury Fellow at the Univers
 ity of Oxford\, and in 2012 he has been an inaugural Rutherford Visiting S
 cholar at Trinity College\, Cambridge.\n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
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