Colette A. Granger's highly original book considers moments in several areas of education in which silence may serve as both a response to difficulty and a means of working through it. The author, a teacher educator, presents narratives and other textual artefacts from her own experiences of learning and instruction. She analyses them from multiple perspectives to reveal how the qualities of education's silences can make them at once difficult to observe and challenging to think about.

Silent Moments in Education combines autoethnography with psychoanalytic theory and critical discourse analysis in a unique consideration of the relations teachers and learners forge with knowledge, with ideas, and with one another. This provocative and thoughtful work invites scholars and educators to consider the multiple silences of participants in education, and to respond to them with generosity and compassion.

Colette A. Granger holds a postdoctoral fellowship at Queen's University and the University of Toronto. She works in teacher education at these institutions and at York University.

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‘Silent Moments in Education offers important insights and perspectives to education students, practitioners, and academics alike, its relevance echoing across different educational phases and locations. As such, it makes a significant contribution to understandings of the processes of teaching and learning and about what it means to write about these.’

Pedagogy, Culture and Society vol22:02:2014