Resources for the Resistance: Radical Pedagogy & Early Critiques of Higher Education
Part 1: Radical Pedagogy (how to re-imagine the university) and Part 2: Why we need to re-imagine the university (foundational texts).
In this post: This January's reading list, a fully annotated bibliography including racial pedagogy and foundational critiques of higher education.
Next week: I am posing the most common concerns this month to an impressive cast of alt-academics, current professors, post-docs, and graduate students to join Post-PhD in a live fireside chat.
Last week: I pose a discourse about the adjunct crisis, and the larger systemic educational crisis we are currently in, and ponder on the differences our generation of thinkers can make for the next.
“[T]he more radical the person is, the more fully he or she enters into reality so that, knowing it better, he or she can transform it. This individual is not afraid to confront, to listen, to see the world unveiled. This person is not afraid to meet the people or to enter into a dialogue with them. This person does not consider himself or herself the proprietor of history or of all people, or the liberator of the oppressed; but he or she does commit himself or herself, within history, to fight at their side.” -Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
― Paulo Freire,
For January's reading list, we have a nice mix of radical pedagogy and foundational critiques of higher education, all are hyperlinked to downloadable pdfs, unless otherwise indicated. Scroll to end of this post for a full annotated bibliography.
I think they complement January's spark, "The radical pragmatism of the subversive intellectual," and importantly examine the methodological and historical foundations of Moten and Harney's The Undercommons: Black Thought and Fugitive Planning.
The 'How' To Reimagine the University
Authors included: bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux
Keywords: anti-oppressive education, anti-oppressive pedagogy, teaching as an act of freedom, bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux.
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The "Why" We Need to Reimagine the University
An annotated bibliography.
In this post: A reflection on the UCU strikes, past and upcoming content, and what the f*ck we are supposed to do with all this mess, including a list of what I'm reading.