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How can discerning critical hope enable us to develop innovative forms of teaching, learning and social practices that begin to address issues of marginalization, privilege and access across different contexts?
At this millennial point in history, questions of cynicism, despair and hope arise at every turn, especially within areas of research into social justice and the struggle for transformation in education. While a sense of fatalism and despair is easily recognizable, establishing compelling bases for hope is more difficult. This book addresses the absence of sustained analyses of hope that simultaneously recognize the hard edges of why we despair.
The volume posits the notion of critical hope not only as conceptual and theoretical, but also as an action-oriented response to despair. Our notion of critical hope is used in two ways: it is used firstly as a unitary concept which cannot be disaggregated into either hopefulness or criticality, and secondly, as an analytical concept, where critical hope is engaged and diversely theorized in ways that recognize aspects of individual and collective directions of critical hope. The book is divided into four sub-sections:
Critical Hope in Education
Critical Hope and a Critique of Neoliberalism
Critical Race Theory/Postcolonial Perspectives on Critical Hope
Philosophical Overviews of Critical Hope.
Education can be a purveyor of critical hope, but it also requires critical hope so that it, as a sector itself, can be transformative. With contributions from international experts in the field, the book will be of value to all academics and practitioners working in the field of education.
Contents
Introduction Vivienne Bozalek, Ronelle Carolissen, Brenda Leibowitz and Megan Boler Part 1: Critical Hope in Education Affective, Political and Ethical Sensibilities in Pedagogies of Critical Hope: Exploring the Notion of 'Critical Emotional Praxis' Michalinos Zembylas Teaching for Hope: The Ethics of Shattering World Views Megan Boler A Pedagogy of Hope in South African Higher Education Vivienne Bozalek, Ronelle Carolissen and Brenda Leibowitz Part 2: Critical Hope and a Critique of Neoliberalism "That's Scary. But it's not Hopeless": Critical Pedagogy and Redemptive Narratives of Hope Gustavo Fischman and Eric Haas Plasticity, Critical Hope and the Regeneration of Human Rights Education Andre Keet Critical Hope: Deconstructing of the Politics of HOPE at a South African University Henk van Rinsum Part 3: Critical Race Theory/Postcolonial Perspectives on Critical Hope Critical Hope and Struggles for Justice: An Antidote to Despair for Antiracism Educators Ronald Glass Agents of Critical Hope: Black British Narratives Paul Warmington Decolonizing Education: Discovering Critical Hope in Marginal Spaces Merlyne Cruz Part 4: Philosophical Overviews of Critical Hope Hope: An Emancipatory Resource Across the Ages John Horton Critical Hopes - Gratitude and the Magic of Encounter Mary Zournazi
