Overview
- Examines how 'tales of the horrible' can be linked to the looming disaster of environmental degradation
- Analyses how these perspectives can be incorporated into environmental and sustainability education
- Develops a new and darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment (PSEE)
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Dark pedagogy explores how different perspectives can be incorporated into a darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education. Drawing on the work of the classic horror author H.P. Lovecraft and new materialist insights of speculative realism, the authors link Lovecraft’s ‘tales of the horrible’ to the current spectres of environmental degradation, climate change, and pollution. In doing so, they draw parallels between how humans have always related to the ‘horrible’ things that are scaled beyond our understanding and how education can respond to an era of climate catastrophe in the age of the Anthropocene. A new and darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education is thus developed: using the tripartite reaction pattern of denial, insanity and death to frame the narrative, the book subsequently examines the specific challenges of potentials of developing education and pedagogy for an age of mass extinction. This unflinching book will appeal to students and scholars of dark pedagogies as well as those interested in environment and sustainability education.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Towards Dark Pedagogy
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“Dark Pedagogy offers fresh perspectives on pedagogical possibilities for these dark times in which our encounters with the more-than-human (such as the climate crisis and a novel, highly contagious virus) are often manifested by denial, insanity, and death.” (Noel Gough, Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, Vol. 23, 2020)
“Dark Pedagogy is an important book for rethinking educational practices and their pedagogical principles as an engagement in the world. That engagement brings education into a conversation with continental “speculative” philosophy and studies of the political complexities about the conditions that haunt the present: climate, environmental crises, the evils of multiple holocausts, and the institutionalizations of hate and fear that have invaded contemporary daily life. The book expresses the hope of education as a form of advocacy and commitment through experimentation in living. The optimism requires a critical openness for the possibilities of constructing paths outside of the contemporaneous tropes of curriculum and pedagogy.” (Thomas S. Popkewitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
“How should education address the deteriorating condition of our planet? That is the question taken up by this book, which is unusually pleasant to read despite its cover-to-cover seriousnesson such topics as denial, madness, and death.” (Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Stefan Bengtsson is Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen researches in Education Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Stefan Bengtsson is Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden.
Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen researches in Education Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dark Pedagogy
Book Subtitle: Education, Horror and the Anthropocene
Authors: Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard, Stefan Bengtsson, Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19933-3
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19932-6Published: 10 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19933-3Published: 28 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-6519
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6527
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 164
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental and Sustainability Education, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education