Problematizing Public Pedagogy

The term ?public pedagogy? is given a variety of definitions and meanings by those who employ it. It is often used without adequately explicating its meaning, its context, or its location within differing and contested articulations of the construct. Problematizing Public Pedagogy brings together renowned and emerging scholars in the field of education to provide a theoretical, methodological, ethical, and practical ground from which other scholars and activists can explore these forms of education. At the same time it increases the viability of the concept of public pedagogy itself. Beyond adding a multifaceted set of critical lenses to the genre of public pedagogy inquiry and theorizing, this volume adds nuance to the broader field of education research overall.

CONTENTS

Foreword, William Ayers
Preface
Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1: Breaking without Fixing: Inhabiting Aporia - Jake Burdick, Jennifer A. Sandlin, and Michael P. O’Malley

PART ONE: FRAMING
FIRST APORETIC TURN || A FRAME || JORGE R. LUCERO featuring the work of Samantha Hill, The Great Migration Project
CHAPTER 2: Making Pedagogy Public: For the Public, of the Public, or in the Interest of Publicness? - Gert Biesta
CHAPTER 3: Public Pedagogy as an Historically Feminist Project - Audrey M. Dentith, Michael P. O’Malley, and Jeanne F. Brady
CHAPTER 4: Putrid Deadagogies: Zombie Life and the Rise of the Chaosmopolis - Jason J. Wallin
CHAPTER 5: “Pushing Against”: Relationality, Intentionality, and the Ethical Imperative of Pedagogy - Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández and Alexandra Arráiz Matute
CHAPTER 6: Pedagogy in the Public Realm: Affective Diagrams of Thinking Feeling in the X-Men and Beyond - jan jagodzinski

PART TWO: STUDYING
SECOND APORETIC TURN || A STUDY || JORGE R. LUCERO featuring the work of Jim Duignan and Stockyard Institute, The Nomadic Studio
CHAPTER 7: Chasing the Phantoms of Public Pedagogy: Political, Popular, and Concrete Publics - Glenn C. Savage
CHAPTER 8: Problematizing the Public Intellectual: Foucault, Activism, and Critical Public Pedagogy - Jory Brass
CHAPTER 9: Turning Down the Dead Father: Eidolons in Public Pedagogy Research and Theorizing - Jake Burdick and Jennifer A. Sandlin
CHAPTER 10: Little Public Spheres - Anna Hickey-Moody

PART THREE: ENACTING
THIRD APORETIC TURN || AN ENACTMENT || JORGE R. LUCERO featuring the work of Bert Stabler and Mike Bancroft, The Piñata Project
CHAPTER 11: How to Be an Artist by Night: Critical Public Pedagogy and Double Ontology - Stephanie Springgay and The Torontonians
CHAPTER 12: Reclaiming the Public in Public Pedagogy: A Conversation between Christopher G. Robbins and Suzanne Lacy - Christopher G. Robbins and Suzanne Lacy
CHAPTER 13: 3,417 Footnotes: Troubling the Public Pedagogy of CReATE - Isabel Nuñez, Pamela Konkol, and Brian D. Schultz
CHAPTER 14: Long Live the Pedagogical Turn: Brazen Claims Made for the Overflowing Art/Life Intersection and the Longevity of its Eternal Pedagogy and Study - Jorge R. Lucero
CHAPTER 15: Dolls as Dangerous Style: Occupying Public Spaces in Education Through Aesthetic Social Action - Morna M. McDermott

Contributors

Jake Burdick is Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies at Purdue University, USA.

Jennifer A. Sandlin is Associate Professor in the Justice and Social Inquiry Program within the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, USA.

Michael P. O’Malley is Associate Professor of Educational and Community Leadership and Director of the Ph.D. in Education-School Improvement Program at Texas State University, USA.