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Pedagogy at the End of the World

Weird Pedagogies for Unthought Educational Futures

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Authors:
  1. jessie l. beier

    1. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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  • Draws on the problematizing method of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
  • Focuses on specific trajectories for educational futurity: sustainable futures, energy futures, and working futures
  • Provides a series of experimental sites for grappling with the concept of pedagogical resistance within education

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures (PSEF)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction, or Unthinking Pedagogy for the “End Times”

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    Pages 1-58

  3. Sustaining the End of the World

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    Pages 59-106

  4. Energetic Investments in the “End Times”

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    Pages 107-152

  5. Working at the Edge of Extinction

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    Pages 153-207

  6. Germinating a Weird Pedagogy

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    Pages 209-220

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 221-242
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About this book

This book interrogates the ways in which “end of the world” thinking has come to define and delimit pedagogical approaches in Anthropocene times. Chapters unfold through a series of speculative studies of educational futurity—sustainable futures, energy futures, working futures—each of which is positioned as an experimental site for probing the limits of pedagogical unthinkability so as to speculate, through concept creation, on unthought educational trajectories. Specifically, the book is oriented towards the creation of pedagogical concepts that work to problematize and resituate questions of educational futurity in relation to the planetary realities raised by today’s pressing extinction events. It is from this experimentation that a weird pedagogy emerges, that is, an experimental pedagogical anti-model, a speculative program for the unprogrammable that seeks to counter-actualize potentials of and for unthinking pedagogy at the (so-called) end of the world.

Reviews

"Nothing might seem more worthy than a pedagogy that saves the world. Nothing might seem more impossible than a pedagogy in end times. Beier’s Weird Pedagogy challenges the assumptions of futurity embedded in the philosophy and practice of education in order to forge a pedagogy that embraces the challenges of twenty-first century disruptions. Rather than simply coping with end times, Weird Pedagogy creates a new theory of time and education. Beier’s timely and stimulating book is essential reading for those working in philosophy of education, and in Extinction/Anthropocene studies." (Claire Colebrook, Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University, US, and author of The Death of the Posthuman: Essays on Extinction, Vol. 1 and Sex After Life: Essays on Extinction, Vol. 2 (Open Humanities Press 2014))





"If educational theory and philosophy had its own ‘X-Files’, it might look something akin to Beier’s reorientation of education to the weird. In this remarkable book, Beier accomplishes the difficult task of subtracting educational thought from its normative foundations, revealing in turn much stranger conditions for thinking and doing education. An important book and singular contribution to educational thought." (Jason Wallin, Professor of Media and Youth Culture in Curriculum, University of Alberta, Canada, and author of A Deleuzian Approach to Curriculum: Essays on a Pedagogical Life (Palgrave Macmillan 2010))






"Beier’s radical new mapping of pedagogy both deconstructs the powers and pleasures of pedagogy, while creating strange and optimistic futures for how we think and teach the world that can be implemented now as acts of activism and imagination. Beier takes critical ecological and ethical issues to show the urgency of the role of pedagogy in undoing anthropocentric dominance." (Patricia MacCormack, Professor of Continental Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, UK, and author of The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury 2020))

Authors and Affiliations

  • Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    jessie l. beier

About the author

jessie l. beier is an artist, philosopher and conjurer of weird pedagogies for the "end times." She is currently an Assistant Professor in Art Education at Concordia University, Montreal/Tiohtià:ke, Canada.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pedagogy at the End of the World

  • Book Subtitle: Weird Pedagogies for Unthought Educational Futures

  • Authors: jessie l. beier

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Educational Futures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41057-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41056-7Published: 23 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-41059-8Due: 24 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-41057-4Published: 22 November 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 242

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Education, general, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Educational Philosophy, Alternative Education

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