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Pedagogy of vulnerability / edited by Edward J. Brantmeier, Maria K. McKenna

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Charlotte, NC : Information Age Publishing, Incorporated, [2020]
Copyright Date
©2020
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages)
Additional Creators
Brantmeier, Edward J. and McKenna, Maria K.
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Contents
Cover -- Pedagogy of Vulnerability -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Pedagogy of Vulnerability -- PART I: VULNERABILITY ACROSS DISCIPLINES -- CHAPTER 2: Barefoot Hope for Peace -- CHAPTER 3: Changing . . .One Synapse at a Time -- CHAPTER 4: Inviting Vulnerability Into the Religious Studies Classroom -- CHAPTER 5: The Self-Disclosure Tightrope Walk in Teaching and Teacher Education -- CHAPTER 6: Vulnerability in Performance -- PART II: VULNERABILITY AND IDENTITY -- CHAPTER 7: A Crack in Everything, CHAPTER 8: Ever Vulnerable -- CHAPTER 9: Brown Vulnerability and (In)Visibility in Predominantly White Institutions -- CHAPTER 10: Pulling In and Out of My Daily Work -- CHAPTER 11: Making It Personal and Learning con el Corazón -- CHAPTER 12: Becoming Vulnerable in the Era of Climate Change -- PART III: VULNERABILITY AND PLACE -- CHAPTER 13: Becoming Vulnerable With the Vulnerable -- CHAPTER 14: A Personal Narrative of Courage and Vulnerability in Research -- CHAPTER 15: Unpacking the Pedagogy of Vulnerability in Three Contexts -- CHAPTER 16: Being Vulnerable in the Classroom, and ABOUT THE EDITORS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Summary
"The purpose of this text is to elicit discussion, reflection, and action specific to pedagogy within education, especially higher education, and circles of experiential learning, community organizing, conflict resolution and youth empowerment work. Vulnerability itself is not a new term within education; however the pedagogical imperatives of vulnerability are both undertheorized in educational discourse and underexplored in practice. This work builds on that of Edward Brantmeier in Re-Envisioning Higher Education: Embodied Pathways to Wisdom and Transformation (Lin, Oxford, & Brantmeier, 2013). In his chapter, "Pedagogy of vulnerability: Definitions, assumptions, and application," he outlines a set of assumptions about the term, clarifying for his readers the complicated, risky, reciprocal, and purposeful nature of vulnerability, particularly within educational settings. Creating spaces of risk taking, and consistent mutual, critical engagement are challenging at a moment in history where neoliberal forces impact so many realms of formal teaching and learning. Within this context, the divide between what educators, be they in a classroom or a community, imagine as possible and their ability to implement these kinds of pedagogical possibilities is an urgent conundrum worth exploring. We must consider how to address these disconnects; advocating and envisioning a more holistic, healthy, forward thinking model of teaching and learning. How do we create cultures of engaged inquiry, framed in vulnerability, where educators and students are compelled to ask questions just beyond their grasp? How can we all be better equipped to ask and answer big, beautiful, bold, even uncomfortable questions that fuel the heart of inquiry and perhaps, just maybe, lead to a more peaceful and just world? Our work sits within the traditions of of critical pedagogy, experiential and community based learning, youth empowerment, and peace studies. Pedagogy of vulnerability is central to deepening our collective understanding of the constituted boundaries of the reciprocal relationships of teacher-student, leader-follower, and giver-receiver in a variety of contexts. By leveling power dynamics and knowing in learning endeavors, we provide alternative views of democratic spaces where voice and empowerment emerge; we ameliorate the silencing and marginalizing effects of larger processes of cultural and structural violence that dominate, subjugate, and attempt to conform to difference. Vulnerability invites courage in learning. A collection of reflections, case studies, and research focused on the pedagogy of vulnerability is a starting point for this work, wherein authors explicate the most intimate and delicate aspects of the varied pedagogical journeys. As such, the book itself is meant to be an example of pedagogical vulnerability, wherein the authors work to explicate the most intimate and delicate aspects of the varied pedagogical journeys, understandings rooted in vulnerability, and those of their students, colleagues, clients, even adversaries. It is a work that "holds space""--
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9781648020278 (electronic book)
1648020275 (electronic book)
9781648020261 (hardcover)
1648020267 (hardcover)
9781648020254 (paperback)
1648020259 (paperback)
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