Fun

=Pleasure in the Classroom=

Learning and pleasure go hand in hand. Although some see learning as painful or perfunctory, I see learning as a source of pleasure and opportunity. Discomfort does exist in learning, and that must be expected, but through those moments of discomfort, there is potential for personal pleasure and understanding. It might help to think of learning like training for a sport. In the beginning, depending on the shape we are in, there is discomfort and anxiety. But, through repetition and consistency, training becomes more pleasurable, as hormones are released and muscles are built. Yet, eventually the training must push to a new level, which ultimately may cause pain. Pleasure and pain for a complex relationship, which often focuses on the pain. Education can be intense amounts of pleasure, especially in the context of this syllabus. The interns of course are going to have fear and nervousness, but there is also great potential for pleasure as they learn and see what their students can do, as they push themselves to explore their pedagogical reserves, and as they come to recognize accomplishment in their educational path.

Resources: Hawhee, D. (2002). Bodily pedagogies: Rhetoric, athletics, and the Sophists' three r's. //College English//, 65(2), 142-162. [|Hawhee -- Bodily Pedagogies.pdf]