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 vibrant methodological and theoretical material for an educational present marked by high stakes rhetoric, heated debate, teacher and student vulnerabilities, and extreme educational measures. Affect studies are a part of new materialist and post-humanist turns, and this volume connects these new theoretical directions within education. This comprehensive volume on affect crosses educational subfields and responds to the transdisciplinary interest in thinking through pedagogy, education, and feeling.
This comprehensive reader addresses affect in education from a wide range of styles, topics, and perspectives. This collection offers an introduction to theory, empirical research studies, interviews with affect studies scholars, and an assessment of the current and future significance of affect studies in education. Contributors utilize a range of theoretical and interpretive approaches to thinking with and through schooling phenomena. Interviews with affect scholars in the humanities and social sciences address affective dimensions of teaching. The editors’ introduction, different foci, and interdisciplinary genres of writing help readers feel their ways into what affect studies in education does and might do.
This field-defining collection will be of interest to a range of readers--from graduate students to established scholars--with varying levels of expertise and familiarity putting affect theories to work in education. All the contributions are accessible to those new to the theory, methods, and debates in this vibrant area of educational studies.
Table of Contents:
List of Images
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Feeling Education
Bessie P. Dernikos, Nancy Lesko, Stephanie D. McCall & Alyssa D. Niccolini
Ordinary Charges
Teaching Affectively
Kathleen Stewart
I: Politics
Passion, Pedagogy, Pietas
An Interview with Rosi Braidotti
The Ethics and Politics of Traumatic Shame: Pedagogical Insights
Michalinos Zembylas
Post-Threat Pedagogies: A Micro-Materialist Phantomatic Feeling within Classrooms in Post-terrorist Times
Shiva Zarabadi
II. Pedagogies
Affect’s First Lesson
An Interview with Gregory J. Seigworth
Resistance is Useful: Social Justice Teacher Education as an Affective Craft
Lee Airton
Love and Bewilderment: On Education as Affective Encounter
Nathan Snaza
Art Encounters, Racism and Teacher Education
Asilia Franklin-Phipps
III. Materials/Bodies
Thinking through the Body
An Interview with Anna Hickey-Moody
The Fecundity of Poo: Working with Children as Pedagogies of Refusal
Stephanie Springgay
Machinic Affects: Education Data Infrastructure and the Pedagogy of Objects
Sam Sellar
The Affective Matter of (Australian) School Uniforms: The School-dress that Is and Does
Melissa Joy Wolfe & Mary Lou Rasmussen
IV. Spaces
Student Viscosities and the Micropolitics of Race
An Interview with Arun Saldanha
(Re)storying Water: Decolonial Pedagogies of Relational Affect with Young Children
Fikile Nxumalo with Marleen Tepeyolotl Villanueva
On Learning to Stay in the Room: Notes from the Classroom and Clinic
Gail Boldt
Coda
Intimacy and Depletion in the Pedagogical Scene
An Interview with Lauren Berlant
Index
