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Zembylas, Michalinos – Ethics and Education, 2022
This essay reconceptualizes fanaticism as an activity that does not rely on the condemnation of 'fanatical' acts as "a priori" 'irrational.' Rather, it theorizes fanaticism as a method of ethical and political critique against a regime of representation. It also argues that it is crucial to understand fanaticism through an approach that…
Descriptors: Ethics, Politics, Negative Attitudes, Affective Behavior
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
This paper discusses teacher resistance to recognizing some perspectives of difficult histories. The paper focuses on the following question: How does affect contribute not only to the formation of teacher resistance, but also to its disruption in ways that enable the productive reclaiming of teachers' engagement with traumatic histories? To…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Social Theories, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development
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Zembylas, Michalinos – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2010
This article analyzes the ways in which emotions are constituted and mobilized by teachers to respond to growing diversity and multiculturalism in schools. The analysis is based on a two-year ethnographic study conducted in three Greek-Cypriot primary schools that are "multicultural". The following focus questions are addressed: (1) How…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Cultural Pluralism, Social Change, Ethics