The Pedagogical Contract: The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)

the long version

"The Pedagogical Contract explores the relationship between teacher and student and argues for ways of reconceiving pedagogy. It discloses this relationship as one that has been regarded since antiquity as a give-and-take, where the teacher exchanges knowledge for some sort of payment from the student and where pedagogy always runs the risk of becoming a broken contract. The book seeks to liberate teaching and learning from this historical scene and the anxieties that it engenders, arguing that there are alternative ways of conceiving the economy underlying pedagogical activities.". "The book will appeal to all those who understand scholarship as having an important social and/or political role to play; it will also be of interest to literary scholars, literary and cultural theorists, philosophers, historians, legal theorists, feminists, scholars of education, sociologists, and political theorists."--BOOK JACKET.