Teaching Politically : Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy / May Hawas, Bruce Robbins, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hawas, May, editor.

Robbins, Bruce, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Political aspects.

Education.

Literature--Study and teaching.

Literature.

Teaching--Political aspects.

Teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Culture is inextricable from politics. This includes the politics of who we are, as teachers, intellectuals, writers, cultural workers, and students, and what we want to bring to and take from the site of instruction. It also includes the politics of who we want to be, as citizens, professionals, and active contributors to our communities and to the world in general, and what we can be, realistically, in the particular contexts in which we live. Teaching Politically addresses some of the political constraints that shape our pedagogical spaces, especially in the teaching of literature. The book brings together a global group of academics, activists, public intellectuals, poets, and novelists to examine the way politics manifest pedagogically, and how a commitment to educating manifests politically, in and beyond the classroom. At the heart of the discussion is how political and professional paradigms chafe against, intersect with, or otherwise become inseparable from each other in any vocation that attempts to educate: from writing, journalism, and public speaking to art, activism, and medicine. Contributors : Dimitris Christopoulos, Dimitri Dimoulis, Khaled Fahmy, Rishi Goyal, May Hawas, Bonnie Honig, Mona Kareem, Benjamin Mangrum, Nora Parr, Bruce Robbins, Ahdaf Soueif, Omid Tofighian, Elahe Zivardar

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Introduction

Melville's Democratic Pedagogy: Moby-Dick Takes On Hobbes's Leviathan

Liberal Education and the Politics of Discussion

Teaching While Arab

Whose Politics? Teaching Palestinian Literature

"Don't Speak or Laugh! Greece Is in Danger!": Censoring Dissident Discourse on So-Called National Issues in Greece

The Politics of Mentorship

Teaching Literature Politically: Some Examples

Baking and Breaking Bread, or Daniel Defoe and the Catastrophic Imagination

Foundations for Nauru Prison Theory: Australian Border Violence, Art, and Knowledge Production

Politics Was in the Very Air We Breathed

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5315-1022-1

OCLC:

1521276234