Joanna Haynes

Discomfort, Avoidance and Shame: Teaching and Researching Dangerous Knowledge

Joanna Haynes, Heather Knight and colleagues from Plymouth University Institute of Education. Conflict and controversy are to be expected in university teaching, but higher education pedagogic discourse tends to minimise the trouble and disturbance involved in generating sophisticated knowledge. Knowledge is ‘dangerous’ or ‘troublesome’ when a sense of disturbance is…

Cultures of knowledge, learning and assessment: an encounter between two Education Studies programmes

In 2007 a joint writing project was established between groups of second year BA Education Studies students working collaboratively across the universities of York and Plymouth. The project would involve students in the production a book for which they would collectively have responsibility for compiling, editing and producing. The York…