Enchanted Pedagogies: Archetypes, Magic, and Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Kari Adelaide Razdow (editor)

• Publisher: Brill
• Year: 2024
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Series: Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education, 14
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Enchanted Pedagogies is a collection of essays reflecting on archetypes, education, and magic. Within the various personal, theoretical, or poetic narratives, the fantastic and prosaic intertwine as dimensions of enchantment and education are explored.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction: How Do You Come to Know Magic?
1 Fantasy and Keyed Up or Keyed Down Worlds
2 Magic and the Quest to Understand Nature
3 Recaptured Magic and Self-Reflexivity
4 Acquisitions and Transmissions of Magic and Magical Knowledge in Fantasy Literature
5 Archetypes, Transformations, and Transfigurations
6 Archetypes, Magic, and Knowledge
Acknowledgement
References
2. Huldufólk
References
3. Shedding Skins
4. The Gnome Report from Mother Lode Country
References
5. Ghosting Ghosts
6. Pedagogy of Necromancy: A Workshop Exercise and Its Enactment
1 Prompt
2 Responses
7. In the Shadow of Toadstools: Fairies and the Natural World
1 Fairies in the Natural World
2 Fairies in the Classroom
References
8. Witch Transmissions
Reference
9. SMART Goals Are Magic
10. The Goddess
The Well, The Cave: The Earth
Under the Well and Cave: The Spring, the Fire
Hortus Conclusus
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
11. Reflections on Alchemy
1 The Spider and the Girl
References
12. Shapeshifter
13. From the Stars or the Booming Labyrinth of the Mind: UFOs, Memories, and Myths
References
14. Historical-Ish Fiction on the Legend of Baba Yaga
1 I Am Baba Yaga
2 A Terrible Illumination
3 A Gentler Light
4 It Ends in Fire
15. The Hag: Metamorphosis
Reference
16. Where Is the Lie: Anansi the Trickster, Traveler, NFT-Minter
17. Sibyl Pedagogy//Civic Pedagogy
Notes
References
18. Traversing the Boundaries of Fairyland
1 Encounters of Fairyland’s Boundaries
2 Fairyland Wanderings and Strange Perfection in George MacDonald’s Phantastes
3 Encountering Boundaries of Fairyland in Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter
4 The Transmission of Knowledge in Fairyland in Patrick Rothfuss’ The Wise Man’s Fear
Acknowledgement
References
19. Medusa
20. The Golem: On Language and Becoming
Notes
References
21. Hekate: Goddess for the Twenty-First Century
1 Hekate’s Lineage
2 Goddess of the Crossroads
3 Goddess of the Threshold
4 Key-Holder
5 Hekate of the 21st Century
6 Coda: Hope’s Cave
Notes
References
22. Fool Party
References
23. Precipitated Spirit Painting and Visionary Space
1 Making Visible What Is Invisible
Notes
References