Through exploring the dynamics in two different seminar groups with undergraduates the paper analyses the dynamics that arise in teaching situations. The emphasis is on the communications and fantasies that occur across axis of ethnicity and class. Drawing upon a theoretical framework the paper argues that emotional and moral recognition is based on placing self and other on a difference/similarity spectrum.
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