1st Edition

Mapping the Affective Turn in Education Theory, Research, and Pedagogies

274 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Passions are high in education, and this edited volume offers bold new ways to conceive of the affective intensities shaping our present historical moment. Concerns over school practices deemed "ineffective," "disruptive," "irrational," or even "promising" are matters modulated by and through feelings, such as, optimism, shame, enhanced concentration, or empathy. The recent turn to affect offers... Read more

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Feeling Education - Bessie P. Dernikos, Nancy Lesko, Stephanie D. McCall & Alyssa D. Niccolini 

Ordinary Charges

2. Teaching Affectively - Kathleen Stewart


PART I: Politics

3. Passion, Pedagogy, and Pietas: An Interview with Rosi Braidotti

4. The Ethics and Politics of Traumatic Shame: Pedagogical Insights - Michalinos Zembylas

5. Post-Threat Pedagogies: A Micro-Materialist Phantomatic Feeling within Classrooms in Post-Terrorist Times - Shiva Zarabadi


PART II: Pedagogies


6. Affect’s First Lesson: An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth

7. Resistance is Useful: Social Justice Teacher Education as an Affective Craft - Lee Airton

8. Love and Bewilderment: On Education as Affective Encounter - Nathan Snaza

9. Art Encounters, Racism and Teacher Education - Asilia Franklin-Phipps

PART III: Materials/Bodies

10. Thinking through the Body: An Interview with Anna Hickey-Moody

11. The Fecundity of Poo: Working with Children as Pedagogies of Refusal - Stephanie Springgay

12. Machinic Affects: Education Data Infrastructure and the Pedagogy of Objects - Sam Sellar  

13. The Affective Matter of (Australian) School Uniforms: The School-Dress That Is and Does - Melissa Joy Wolfe & Mary Lou Rasmussen

PART IV: Spaces

14. Student Viscosities and the Micropolitics of Race: An Interview with Arun Saldanha

15. (Re)storying Water: Decolonial Pedagogies of Relational Affect with Young Children - Fikile Nxumalo with Marleen Tepeyolotl Villanueva

16. On Learning to Stay in the Room: Notes from the Classroom and Clinic  - Gail Boldt

Coda


17. Intimacy and Depletion in the Pedagogical Scene: An Interview with Lauren Berlant

Notes on Contributors

Index

 



 

Biography

Bessie Dernikos is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, College of Education, Florida Atlantic University, USA.

Nancy Lesko is the Maxine Greene Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

Stephanie D. McCall is an assistant professor of professional and secondary education, East Stroudsburg University, USA.

Alyssa D. Niccolini is an adjunct professor of teaching and learning, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.