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Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education

by Mike Seal

  • Paperback
  • 320 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

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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.
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  • Title

    Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education

  • Author

    Mike Seal

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

  • Published

    December 2022

  • Weight

    441g

  • Page Count

    320

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781350216792

  • ISBN-10

    1350216798

  • Eden Code

    5659018

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