This book explores how teaching endures in the age of pervasive dread. It asks: How does teaching refuse and counter dread's grip? What new stories of teaching might be told beyond the culture of dread?
Dread is the prevailing mood of this era. Dread is an affliction of minds, bodies, and social life. Climate chaos, spiraling inequality, loss of community, cynicism, and escalating attacks on public schools, universities, and educators are all contribute to pervasive dread. This book explores the persistence of teaching in this era of dread. The chapters examine the context of teaching in a time of dread and touch upon different valences of race and pedagogy, as well as pedagogy in relation to global crises of capitalism, technology, and ecology. Taken together, they explore how teaching endures over dread and examine how teaching might be rethought as a creative force for imagination over fatalism, reciprocity over exploitation, thought over fundamentalism, belonging over atomization, love over nihilism, mutuality over narcissism, care over hatred, joy over despair, democracy over fascism, and hope over dread.
This thought-provoking volume will be a key resource for educators, scholars, artists, and activists alike. It was originally published as a special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies.
Introduction: teaching beyond dread
Alexander J. Means, Yuko Ida, and Matthew Myers
1. Beyond a world of dread: a conversation with David Theo Goldberg
David Theo Goldberg and Alexander J. Means
2. Higher education as the frontline of democracy: the case against Florida House Bill 233, the anti-shielding/intellectual viewpoint/student recording legislative act
Robin Truth Goodman
3. Neoliberal dread and the persistence of teaching
Jeffry R. Di Leo
4. Fascist politics and the dread of white supremacy in the age of disconnections
Henry A. Giroux
5. “This is what we wanted to learn”: anti-racist and anti-colonial education with 1st gen Korean American seniors in a time of Asian hate and racialized dread
Ga Young Chung
6. Deconstructing Dread: teaching through Black histories
Brianne Pitts, Dawnavyn James, and Gregory Simmons
7. Fugitive pedagogies of dread for radical futurity: affective, ontological, and political implications
Michalinos Zemblyas
8. Dread and the automation of education: from algorithmic anxiety to a new sensibility
Graham Slater
9. From inevitable disaster to ineradicable possibility: critical pedagogies of ecocide, educational privatization, and new technology
Kenneth J. Saltman
10. Thinking and teaching beyond the terror of capitalist reason
Noah De Lissovoy
11. danSing for another world: memory a/r/t/s work as creative response
Yuko Ida
12. Hopelessly joyful in dreadful times
Tyson E. Lewis
Biography
Alexander J. Means is Chair and Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA.
Yuko Ida is a PhD student in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA.
Matthew Myers is a Masters student in the Department of Educational Foundations at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, USA.
