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标题：The Teacher as Silenced Superhero
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作者：Sean Wiebe
期刊名称：LEARNing Landscapes
电子版ISSN：1913-5688
出版年度：2016
卷号：9
期号：2
页码：535
出版社：LEARN (Leading English Education and Resource Network)
摘要：In this essay I argue that social ideals create an imaginary that inspires self-discipline inbeliefs, thinking, and practices in order to achieve social-utopian hopes that the worldwill improve in particular ways. As such, social ideals limit human agency in general,and, for teachers in particular, there is limited terrain in which they have the right tospeak. As a substitute for their right to speak, I argue, teachers are given the tokensocial status of superhero, a fantasy consistent with neoliberal styles of thought.Following Pinar’s notion of art-as-event, I propose that deep engagement in the artsmight be a means of restoring agency and voice to teachers; I argue that art troublesthe strong socialization motif in education and creates intellectual room for thedevelopment of genuinely educational moments in schooling