ABSTRACT
The author reflects on their experiences in a missionary high school in Zimbabwe. The chapter emphasizes global continuations of coloniality in educational settings. Using an African philosophical lens the chapter recommends centering personhood. Fear as a technology in education, through the body, can be countered. The body is a technology available to us all for generating joy. The chapter posits re-membering as a reflexive methodology for educators in promoting and restoring joyful learning—a personal, transpersonal, and intersubjective phenomenon that is impossible to consider outside of the realm of embodied experience. As both an emotion and an experience, beyond pleasure and happiness, joy can also help us process pain and grief. Teaching is a way to build upon the preexisting knowledge of learners and prepare them for the future, but it is also something that happens in the present. Without joy, the process fails to create a healthy self-concept, to improve our generative capacity, or to enhance our sense of belonging at multiple levels.
