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This chapter aims to provide a tentative outline of a pedagogy of vulnerability. Building upon the consideration of the educative potential of death, a pedagogy of vulnerability is to explore in what way education might relate to the vulnerability of the learner. A pedagogy is to be outlined that is engaging with the anticipation of a future self and its death as a form of self-realization. Drawing on the work of Timothy Morton, vulnerability and anticipation are related to aesthetic encounters of beauty in education, as a form of engaging with a queer and open essence of an absent self that is still to come. This self is, however, not autonomous and a unit, but rather inter-objective. Accordingly, the self is vulnerable in the sense that it requires something else to be itself. The experience of beauty, as the little death of education, is an aesthetical encounter between two objects rendering a pedagogy of vulnerability an ecological pedagogy.
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Bengtsson, S. (2019). A Pedagogy of Vulnerability. In: Dark Pedagogy. Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19933-3_7
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