Conference Contribution Details
Mandatory Fields
Dr. Audrey Bryan in conversation with Dr. Jones Irwin
IoE Research Conversation Series 2020
Affective Pedagogies: Emotion and Educating for Social Justice.
DCU Institute of Education
Invited Oral Presentation
2020
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Optional Fields
11-NOV-20
This research conversation with Dr. Jones Irwin makes the case for foregrounding emotion in education and in social justice related teaching in particular. It considers the educationally and socially transformative possibilities that exist when emotion, affect and feeling are viewed as essential elements of teaching and learning, rather than peripheral or irrelevant to education. It argues that that coming to a deeper understanding of how learners feel about various social injustices – as well as how they actively negotiate, contest and interpret them – is a necessary starting point for effective social justice education. Moreover, it suggests that the need to interrogate what emotions do in places of learning – i.e., what effect they have, and whose interests they serve – has arguably never felt more urgent in an era of impending climate catastrophe, global pandemics, a worsening refugee crisis and ongoing racial oppression. At the heart of the conversation is a consideration of some of the pedagogical challenges associated with enabling learners to think more deeply about their own involvement in, and connection to, both past and present social injustices in order to derive new ways of seeing, and being in, the world. The conversation will consider various frameworks, resources and strategies through which to cultivate deeper forms of emotional self-awareness and ‘cosmopolitan reflexivity’ amongst learners (Christensen & Jansson, 2015).
IoE Research Fellowship