Animate affects

Censorship, Reckless Pedagogies, and Beautiful Feelings

Bibliographic Data

ID8119966
AuthorsAlyssa D Niccolini (Columbia University, corresponding author), Alyssa Niccolini
Year2016
Volume28
Issue2
Pages230-249
Publication date2016-01-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGender and Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0954-0253 • E-ISSN: 1360-0516
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09540253.2015.1121205
OpenAlexW2290221777
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited31

This paper argues that affect bears a potent teaching capacity. To do so, it explores the intensities that built around a student-teacher's dismissal from a US school placement. In this incident, the topic of homophobia in a poetry lesson elicited a buzz among students that enacted a pedagogy that exceeded the speaking subject. It was these animating capacities of affect, the author argues, that were deemed particularly threatening by the school. Affect as pedagogy puts pressure on legacies that position the human, usually the teacher, as the sole locus of pedagogy in the classroom and that privilege telos-driven notions of curricular ‘progress’. The paper concludes by drawing connections between the animating capacities of affect and larger debates around trigger warnings on curricular materials. The author suggests that, rather than seeking to foreclose intensities in classrooms, educators might pay more attention to how affect offers richly generative, but often overlooked, sites of pedagogical force

Affect (linguistics · Censorship · Dismissal · Feeling · Pedagogy · Political science · Privilege (computing · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Law · Literacy, Media, and Education · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology

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