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Learning Difficulties: On How Knowing Everything Hinders from Learning Anything New

Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement

ISBN: 978-1-80043-941-2, eISBN: 978-1-80043-940-5

Publication date: 30 September 2021

Abstract

Entitlement persists on the basis of race, gender, age, sexuality, language and able-bodiedness, despite all efforts to eradicate it – and abetted by some efforts to preserve it. Compounding this, as teachers, it is easy for us to become habituated to possessing the only knowledge of value in the room. This chapter takes place against a backdrop of movements such as Black Lives Matter, and its Australian manifestation, Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the Me Too movement, on women's workplace rights and freedoms, movements against homophobia and transphobia, and quests for equality of accessibility. In particular, we explore the notion that Australia is a haunted nation – one that has not confronted its colonial past or properly reconciled with its first peoples and their descendants. Just as the nation needs to come to terms with its past, our conversations for this chapter will confront us with our own pasts and differing subjectivities. We make use here of our own stories in challenging entitlement, in ourselves and others.

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Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the Cadigal and Gundungurra peoples, on whose traditional lands these exchanges occurred.

Citation

Buchanan, J. and Holland, W. (2021), "Learning Difficulties: On How Knowing Everything Hinders from Learning Anything New", Ratnam, T. and Craig, C.J. (Ed.) Understanding Excessive Teacher and Faculty Entitlement (Advances in Research on Teaching, Vol. 38), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 117-131. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-368720210000038008

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