ERIC Number: EJ1302840
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
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Pedagogic Affect: Assembling an Affirming Ethics
Pedagogy, Culture and Society, v29 n4 p555-572 2021
This article takes as its focus the doing of pedagogic affect. We are not so much concerned with what pedagogic affect "is" as what it "does" and how it might do more. We revisit Spinozist concepts of affect, as taken up by Deleuze and Braidotti, in the context of affirmative ethics. Bringing assemblage thinking together with empirical material generated through two qualitative research projects, we map affect-ethics relations within a classroom-citizenship-test assemblage and a kinetic-fungi-tower-sculpture assemblage. Pedagogic affect emerges as constitutive of ethical subjectivities in a nexus of affect, pedagogy and power. We argue that attending to affective and material-discursive relationality in all pedagogic processes affords a practice of response-able pedagogy and invites an ethics of affirmation that augments the affective capacities of learner- and teacher-bodies, enlarging their potential to engage in ethical action.
Descriptors: Ethics, Teaching Methods, Educational Theories, Citizenship Education, Tests, Affective Behavior, Power Structure, Museums, Foreign Countries, Vignettes, Personal Autonomy, Sculpture, Teacher Attitudes, Immigration, Ethnography, Art
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; New Zealand
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