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On Mutant Pedagogies

Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education

  • This is a graphica book, inspired by graphic novelists, graphic memoirists, graphic journalists, and comic book artists as well as arts-based researchers. The rich intra-action between the images, texts, ideas, and the readers’ positionalities will prompt multiple and divergent readings and meanings
  • This book includes concrete classroom and assignment ideas, and even sample syllabi and readings that readers can use, and also situates those practices within a philosophical context
  • This book brings abstract philosophical ideas about subjectivity, being, and aesthetics to life through analyses of becoming teacher and teacher educator

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Let’s Get Weird!

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 1-12
  3. Girlhood Deconstructed:

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 13-38
  4. Teacher Education

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 39-47
  5. Overcoming Nomos

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 49-69
  6. More on Nomos

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 71-77
  7. Teaching Bodies in Place

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 79-103
  8. Behind the Body-Filled Scenes:

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 105-126
  9. Dangerous Conversations

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 135-143
  10. Drawing Life in Flux

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 145-150
  11. Playground Futurities and Micro-Utopias

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 151-160
  12. Teaching Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education

    • Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom
    Pages 161-174
  13. Back Matter

    Pages 175-222

About this book

"This ground-breaking book on pedagogy, research, and philosophy in teacher education expands the imagination of justice-oriented education and arts-based scholarship. Based on a multi-year study of Jones’ use of feminist pedagogies, the book seamlessly moves between classroom practice, theory, and philosophy in a way that will offer something for everyone: those who are looking for new ways of doing teacher education, those who hope to better understand philosophy, and those who seek new ways of doing inquiry and scholarship. 


Demonstrating through pedagogy, method, and form that we “have more power than we think” and don’t have to repeat what has been handed down to us, the creators critique the restrictions of traditional teacher education and academic discourse. This critique prompts a move outward into unpredictable spaces of encounter where a “maybe world” might be lived in education. In this way, Jones and Woglom don’t make the case for a certain kind of pedagogy or scholarly inquiry that might be repeated, but rather they invite educators and researchers to take seriously the philosophical ideas of Deleuze, Guattari, Barad, and others who argue that humans are in a constant aesthetic process of becoming with other humans, non-human life, and the material world around them. Thus, education – even teacher education – is not about reaching an already known end goal, but growing and changing through multiple ways of being and perceiving in the world. The authors call this mutant pedagogies and show one ethical path of mutating."


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Georgia, USA

    Stephanie Jones

  • Humboldt State University, USA

    James F. Woglom

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: On Mutant Pedagogies

  • Book Subtitle: Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education

  • Authors: Stephanie Jones, James F. Woglom

  • Series Title: Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-744-3

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-744-3Published: 01 February 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 222

  • Topics: Education, general

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eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
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