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« Sylvia Ashton-Warner is one of the most challenging and provocative educators of the past century and, although a great deal has been written about her work, none I have read renders her work for justice more directly and powerfully than this volume. At a time when so many educators feel, as the authors put it, 'trapped in an educational script we did not write, ' 'Provocations' demands that we produce a different play. In an artful and persuasive animation of Ashton-Warner's contributions as well a her contradictions, this volume draws on the richly subversive writings of Sylvia Ashton-Warner to provoke and to excite the inner critical theorist in all of us. -- Joel Westheimer

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The Editors: Judith P. Robertson is Professor of Education at the University of Ottawa. Her published work extends and deepens the methods of analysis brought to literary pedagogy. She received her Ph.D. in education from the University of Toronto (OISE). Along with questions of ethical practice, Robertson utilizes psychoanalytic theory to address culture, its symbolic expression in literature, and the response of readers to their experience and their rediscovery of it in texts. Her work on children's literature, literatures of historical trauma, and screenplay pedagogy appears in leading international journals in the fields of education, cultural studies, and literary pedagogy. Cathryn McConaghy is Associate Professor of Education at the University of New England, Australia. She received her Ph.D. in Indigenous education from The University of Queensland. Her research in the social psychoanalytics of education in difficult contexts has appeared in leading international journals. Her previous book, Rethinking Indigenous Education (2000), presents a groundbreaking postcolonial/feminist reading of the legitimating conditions of colonial education.

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