1st Edition

Towards Transformative Education in Marketing Challenging Rhetoric and Embracing Change

Edited By Teresa Heath, Mona Moufahim, Lisa O’Malley Copyright 2026
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This book collects bold and challenging contributions to pedagogy that foster creative and critical thinking in the marketing classroom. The volume brings together leading international critical marketing scholars who apply a wide range of theoretical and methodological tools to nurture students’ ability to think outside the narrow confines of conventional management ideology. The contributions,... Read more

Introduction: Critical and creative marketing pedagogies: confronting rhetoric, addressing inequality, inspiring change

Teresa Heath, Mona Moufahim and Lisa O’Malley

 

1. On being critically oriented in precarious times: for resistant curiosity

Mark Tadajewski

 

2. Crap detecting. Autoethnographic reflections on critical practice in marketing pedagogy

Chris Hackley

 

3. Up close and personal: feminist pedagogy in the classroom

Lorna Stevens and Pauline Maclaran

 

4. Teaching for freedom, caring for ourselves

Helena Liu

 

5. Poetic pedagogy: emancipatory spaces of Slam poetry for marketing education

Anoop Bhogal-Nair

 

6. Towards glitch pedagogy

Chloe Preece and Laryssa Whittaker

 

7. From the streets to the classroom: power analysis as a tool for critical pedagogy

Aggelos Panayiotopoulos and Maria Lichrou

 

8. Gender transformative advertising pedagogy: promoting gender justice through marketing education

Lauren Gurrieri and Fiona Finn

 

9. Student-centred theory building: pedagogical collaboration after Mark Fisher

Paul Haynes

 

10. Teaching note – Critical pedagogies: practical examples from the marketing classroom

Mona Moufahim, Teresa Heath, Lisa O’Malley, Katherine Casey, Janice Denegri-Knott, Alev Kuruoglu, Ismini Pavlopoulou and Anuja Pradhan

 

Biography

Teresa Heath is Associate Professor at the University of Minho and holds the position of Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. Her research and teaching focus on transformative marketing and its intersection with sustainability, ethics, and consumption. Teresa advocates for critical pedagogies in marketing that can inform responsible practice.

Mona Moufahim is Associate Professor in Marketing at the University of Stirling, UK. She has over 15 years of teaching experience. Using a critical and interpretive approach to research, she is interested in cultural, societal and organisational issues facing marginalised groups in various contexts.

Lisa O’Malley is Professor of Marketing at the University of Limerick and Chair of the Academy of Marketing (UK). As a critical marketing scholar, her research and teaching are oriented towards acknowledging and addressing the deleterious impacts of marketing on society.