ABSTRACT

This interdisciplinary volume examines the place of critical and creative pedagogies in the academy and beyond, offering insights from leading and emerging international theorists and scholar-activists on innovative theoretical and practical interventions for the classroom, the university, and the public sphere.

Subversive Pedagogies draws attention to creative and critical pedagogies as a resource for engaging pressing problems in global politics. The collection explores the radical potential of pedagogy to transform students, scholars, citizens, and institutions. It brings together scholars and students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, indigenous studies, feminist theory, and theatre studies, as well as practitioners in theatre and the arts. These diverse voices explore innovative pedagogical practices that extend our understanding of where pedagogy happens, invite critical assessment of the ways the neoliberal university shapes and restricts pedagogical engagement, and offer both theoretical and practical tools to explore more creative and broader understandings of what pedagogy can and should do.

The book will appeal to scholars and students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, indigenous studies, feminist theory, theatre studies, and education theory, as well as practitioners in theatre and the arts.

chapter |19 pages

Subversive pedagogues

part I|57 pages

Institutional constraints and possibilities

chapter 2|22 pages

Tūnga ki te marae, tau ana

Culturally transformative learning in universities

chapter 3|16 pages

Responding to the neoliberal university

Against melancholic “well-being” and towards mourning

part II|68 pages

Radical possibilities within the classroom

chapter 4|11 pages

Pupils dilated

Towards a pedagogy of emergence

chapter 5|16 pages

Uncertain pedagogies

Cultivating micro-communities of learning

chapter 6|19 pages

“To Read What Was Never Written”

Embracing embodied pedagogies

part III|71 pages

Beyond the academy

chapter 8|18 pages

Solidarity is a verb

Teaching development activism on stolen territory

chapter 10|18 pages

The emotional expression of solidarity

The subversive potential of collective emotions in and beyond the classroom