ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author describes his career trajectory as a musician, teacher and academic, framing an instinct for criticality and the pursuit of his personal agenda through the Aristotelian concept of eudaimonism. Drawing together strands from punk, and anarchist and critical pedagogies, he discusses his prior experiences of learning, his writing practice, and the teaching that he does through three themes in punk pedagogical praxis: performativity, autodidactism and experience. The chapter combines understandings of a punk pedagogical ethos with wider historical and contemporary calls for individual empowerment through re-envisioning democratic ideals. The chapter closes by placing punk pedagogy within a social justice education agenda, calling upon teachers and academics to embrace the potential of effecting and enacting meaningful change through their lives and work. Let us go forth and be punk.
