The poetic teaching space: Gaston Bachelard and a third realm in management education

ABSTRACT

How to make students and teachers stop

Stop and think and feel

Reading slow

Reading aloud

Savouring silence

Being there with all our emotions and bodies

An experiment

Not a social experiment

Not a psychological experiment

But a poetic

Accompanied by a French philosopher

Gaston Bachelard was always there

in the atmosphere

Our classroom practice

With our master’s students

In sustainable management

We searched for poetic moments

Turned into a conversation

Turned into a paper

A paper about the poetics of teaching

Phenomenologizing philosophy

Rupturing classrooms

KEYWORDS:

• Teaching
• poetics
• reading
• phenomenology
• Bachelard

Acknowledgements

We are deeply grateful to the students who lead the way and show us how we can rethink what we take for granted in our teaching. We also thank our colleagues, involved in the Programme of Sustainable Management, for making teaching such a meaningful activity. Lastly, the two anonymous reviewers, as well as the editors of this special issue, show how thinking together, through textwork, can be such a rewarding experience. Our warmest thanks to you all!

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).