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“Desiderio in Search of a Master”: Desire and the Quest for Recognition in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
This essay examines the manner in which desire and Hegelian recognition intersect in Angela Carter’s 1972 novel, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. After providing a brief description of Hegel’s famous account of the interaction between the lord and the bondsman, the essay goes on to discuss the manner in which the novel invests the figure of the love-object with the potential to become an ideal master. The image of the reflecting eye, which recurs throughout Carter’s text, is then analyzed as an enactment of, and a commentary upon, the desiring gaze.
Journal Article
Realising Young Children's Rights : Researching Conversations with Rights Respecting Early Childhood Leaders
Children in the UK have been rights bearing citizens since ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1991). Between 1996-2017 the Department of Education, published 5 iterations of a curriculum for children younger than statutory school age. Since 2006 compliance, of settings, with Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) has been mandatory. National, and international, reports record low levels of well-being and increasing levels of mental distress amongst children in the UK. Since publication of UNCRC a range of research practices which respect young children’s agency have been developed. These, divergent, trajectories rest on competing discourses; children as agents, children as performers. This professional study intertwines understanding rights respecting identities with the case for realising young children’s rights in early years settings. A catalyst for the research conversations was the author’s experience of rights disrespecting behaviours whilst a pupil, teacher and lecturer. Alongside the substantive foci the study responds to two questions; an entreaty from Goodson and Ball (1981), to integrate, ‘the biographical with the situational‘ when researching teachers’ lives and Mannion’s query from 2007 what, exactly, is it that childhood researchers are supposed to do in their empirical studies? The response of this study has been to fashion research conversations focused on the development and enactment of early years leaders’ rights respecting praxes. Set within an interpretative conceptual framework refining a respectful, responsive methodology was imperative. Following a practise interview research conversations provided an opportunity to two early years leaders to share formative experiences from their educational biographies to which they attribute the development of rights respecting values. Analysis of the conversations was undertaken using a bespoke, inductive process denoted by a metaphor of Egyptian rope-making. The rich, joint meaning making which characterised the conversations supported the value of integrating the biographical with the situational and indicated purposeful directions for supporting training, and qualified, early years educators in realising young children’s rights.
Dissertation
“Desiderio in Search of a Master”: Desire and the Quest for Recognition in Angela Carter’s The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
This essay examines the manner in which desire and Hegelian recognition intersect in Angela Carter’s 1972 novel, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. After providing a brief description of Hegel’s famous account of the interaction between the lord and the bondsman, the essay goes on to discuss the manner in which the novel invests the figure of the love-object with the potential to become an ideal master. The image of the reflecting eye, which recurs throughout Carter’s text, is then analyzed as an enactment of, and a commentary upon, the desiring gaze.
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The literacy hour and beyond
Most people involved in primary education want to see a broad and balanced curriculum. Most people involved in primary education also want children to be literate and numerate. Are these two desires necessarily incompatible? In the previous chapter, we made out a strong case for the humanities. We did not do so, however, at the expense of the basic literacy and numeracy curriculum. We are as aware as anybody of the fact that the humanities cannot be effectively taught in secondary schools to pupils arriving from primary school deficient in basic literacy. In addition to traditional forms of literacy and numeracy, at the beginning of the twenty-first century we have to contemplate exponentially accelerating demands for literacy in Information and Communications Technology. Going on-line with the National Grid for Learning will hardly be comparable with the 'toe in the water' approach to ICT of the late twentieth century.
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