Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education

✍ Scribed by Mike Seal

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Many accounts of critical pedagogy, particularly accounts of trying to enact it within higher education (HE), express a deep cynicism about whether it is possible to counter the ever creeping hegemony of neo-liberalism, neo- conservatism and new managerialism within Universities. Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education acknowledges some of these criticisms, but attempts to rescue critical pedagogy, locating some of its associated pessimism as misreading of Freire and offering hopeful avenues for new theory and practice. These misreadings are also located in the present, in the assumption that unless change comes within the lifetime of the project, it has somehow failed. Instead, this book argues that a positive utopianism is possible. Present actions need to be celebrated, and cultivated as symbols of hope, possibility and generativity for the future - which the concept of hope implies. The contributors make the case for celebrating the pedagogies of HE that operate in liminal spaces – situated in the spaces between the present and the future (between the world as it is and the world as it could be) and also in the cracks that are beginning to show in the dominant discourses.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Figures
Contributors
Series Editor’s Foreword
Introduction: Are Hopeful Pedagogies Possible in Higher Education?
Part I: Key Ideas and the Conceptual and Policy Terrain
Chapter 1: Key Concepts in Critical Pedagogy: How We Teach
Chapter 2: Critiques of Critical Pedagogy: The Post-critical
Chapter 3: Perspectives on the Possibility of Hopeful Critical Pedagogies within Higher Education
Chapter 4: The Policy Context of Higher Education: Resistance Is Possible
Chapter 5: The Pedagogy of Partnership
Part II: Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education
Part IIA: Hopeful Pedagogy within Courses
Chapter 6: Early Years to Higher Education: Legacy and the Creation and Connection of Hopeful Spaces
Chapter 7: Widening the Cracks: Co-constructing Learning within Dialogical Spaces
Chapter 8: Preparing for an Unexpected Journey: Exploring the Experience of Teaching Critical Pedagogy through Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 9: Academic Identities: Conversations across the Cracks
Part IIB: Hopeful Pedagogies within Structures
Chapter 10: The ‘Rehearsal Space’Viewing Induction and Transition Work as a Critical Pedagogy Practice
Chapter 11: ‘Very Much a Democratic Thing’: Enacting the Pedagogy of Partnership
Chapter 12: Foundation YearsUndoing Discourses of Deficit
Part IIC: Becoming the Hopeful Pedagogue
Chapter 13: A Mindful Journey: Person-centred and Contemplative Critical Approaches to Higher Education
Chapter 14: Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education through a Psychosocial Lens
Chapter 15: It’s Been Emotional: Exploring the Emotional Impact of Critical Pedagogy Practice with Non-traditional Students
Part IID: Hopeful Pedagogies in the Spaces In-between
Chapter 16: Sit Down Next to Me: Reflections on Academic Advising and Pedagogical Love
Chapter 17: Pushing at an Open Door
Chapter 18: Quality Assurance or Assured Silence?
Part IIE: Hopeful Pedagogies beyond the Institution
Chapter 19: University as Community: Breaking the Circle of Certainty
Chapter 20: College-Based Higher Education: A New Hope
Conclusion: Hopeful Pedagogies Are Possible in Higher Education
References
Index