The Author: Wayne Hugo teaches Curriculum Studies at the University of Kwazulu Natal. His current research interests revolve around the necessary intersection of hierarchy with pedagogy and how to utilize this effectively when analysing contemporary educational practices in South Africa.

• Contents: Plato’s Symposium – Diotima’s ladder of Beauty – The seduction of Socrates by Alcibiades – Plato’s Republic – The Cave metaphor – Augustine’s Confessions – Augustine’s On the Trinity – The love letters of Abelard and Heloise – Abelard’s History of my Calamities – Dante’s Divine Comedy.

The Author: Wayne Hugo teaches Curriculum Studies at the University of Kwazulu Natal. His current research interests revolve around the necessary intersection of hierarchy with pedagogy and how to utilize this effectively when analysing contemporary educational practices in South Africa.

• Contents: Plato’s Symposium – Diotima’s ladder of Beauty – The seduction of Socrates by Alcibiades – Plato’s Republic – The Cave metaphor – Augustine’s Confessions – Augustine’s On the Trinity – The love letters of Abelard and Heloise – Abelard’s History of my Calamities – Dante’s Divine Comedy.

The Author: Wayne Hugo teaches Curriculum Studies at the University of Kwazulu Natal. His current research interests revolve around the necessary intersection of hierarchy with pedagogy and how to utilize this effectively when analysing contemporary educational practices in South Africa.

• Contents: Plato’s Symposium – Diotima’s ladder of Beauty – The seduction of Socrates by Alcibiades – Plato’s Republic – The Cave metaphor – Augustine’s Confessions – Augustine’s On the Trinity – The love letters of Abelard and Heloise – Abelard’s History of my Calamities – Dante’s Divine Comedy.