Hope, Utopia and Creativity in Higher Education: Pedagogical Tactics for Alternative Futures (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781474261654)

Reappraising ideas associated with Ernst Bloch, Roland Barthes and Gaston Bachelard within the context of a utopian pedagogy, Hope, Utopia and Creativity in Higher Education reframes the transformative, creative and collaborative potential of education offering new concepts, tactics and pedagogical possibilities. Craig A. Hammond explores ways of analysing and democratising not only pedagogical conception, knowledge and delivery, but also the learning experience, and processes of negotiation and peer-assessment. Hammond shows how the incorporation of already existent learner hopes, daydreams, and creative possibilities can open up new opportunities for thinking about popular culture and memory, learning and knowledge, and collaborative communities of support. Drawing together theoretical and cultural material in a teaching and learning environment of empowerment, Hammond illustrates that formative articulations of alternative, utopian futures, across sociological, humanities, and education studies subjects and curricula, becomes possible.

Author: Craig A. Hammond
ISBN-10: 1474261655
ISBN-13: 9781474261654
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/12/2017
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.70d