Professor Emeritus - University of Alberta
Max van Manen
Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1994
When students are asked about their experiences with teachers, their anecdotes reveal that classroom interactions are always relational; teachers and students cannot help but stand in certain relations to each other.
Again
As Mrs. Gogo bent over to pick up a pencil you could hear the guys’ jaws drop. But Mrs. Gogo did not notice. She looked tired due to the fact that she sang in a small band many nights of the week. She had just finished teaching us how to solve equations and she was walking around checking that we were working. Just as I completed our assignment I noticed Sarah raise her hand.