Derek R. Ford

Tyson E. Lewis

Hans Schildermans

Towards an Ecology of Study

Experiments in Decolonizing the University

Antonio Leal

Elaine Chase

Alexis Gibbs

An Adventure in Creative Literacy

A Voice for Maria Favela

Curry Malott

From Colonization and Slavery to the Decline of US Imperialism

History of Education for the Many

David I. Backer

Reassessing Critical Education

Althusser and Education

Hayon Park

The Politics of Childhood Art

Rancière and Emancipatory Art Pedagogies

Peter Hyland

Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education

Studious Drift

Douglas Kellner

Clayton Pierce

Critique, Liberation, and Reschooling in the Radical Pedagogy of Herbert Marcuse

On Marcuse

This innovative book examines the aesthetic event of education. Extending beyond the pedagogy of art or art appreciation, Tyson E. Lewis takes a much broader view of aesthetics and argues that teaching and learning are themselves aesthetic performances. As Jacques Ranciere has recently argued, there is an inherent connection between aesthetics and politics, both of which disrupt conventional distributions of who can speak and think. Here, Lewis extends Ranciere's general thesis to examine how there is not only an aesthetics of politics but also an aesthetics of education. In particular, Lewis' analysis focuses on several questions: What are the possibilities and limitations of building analogies between teachers and artists, education and specific aesthetic forms? What is the relationship between democracy and aesthetic sensibilities? Lewis examines these questions by juxtaposing Ranciere's work on universal teaching, democracy, and aesthetics with Paulo Freire's work on critical pedagogy, freedom, and literacy. The result is an extension and problematization of Ranciere's project as well as a new appreciation for the largely ignored aesthetic dimension of Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed.

Theatre, Curiosity, and Politics in the Work of Jacques Ranciere and Paulo Freire

The Aesthetics of Education

A comprehensive study of education in the writings of Walter Benjamin. Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education is the first comprehensive analysis of educational themes across the entirety of the critical theorist’s diverse writings. Starting with Benjamin’s early reflections on teaching and learning, Tyson E. Lewis argues that the aesthetic and cultural forms to which Benjamin so often turned—namely, radio broadcasts, children’s theatrical productions, collections, cityscapes, public cinemas, and word games—swell with educational potentialities. What emerges from Lewis’s reading is a constellational curriculum composed of minor practices such as poor teaching, absentminded learning, and nondurational studying. This curriculum carries political significance, offering an antidote to past and present forms of fascist manipulation, hardness, and coldness. Walter Benjamin’s Antifascist Education is a testimony to Benjamin’s belief that “everyone is an educator and everyone needs to be educated and everything is education.” Tyson E. Lewis is Professor of Art Education at the University of North Texas. He is the author of several books, including Inoperative Learning: A Radical Rewriting of Educational Potentialities and On Study: Giorgio Agamben and Educational Potentiality.

From Riddles to Radio

Walter Benjamin's Antifascist Education

Amelia M. Kraehe

Sarah Travis

Emily J. Hood

This book presents a collection of vivid, theoretically informed descriptions of flashpoints––educational moments when the implicit sociocultural knowledge carried in the body becomes a salient feature of experience. The flashpoints will ignite critical reflection and dialogue about the formation of the self, identity, and social inequality on the level of the preconscious body.

Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education

Pedagogies in the Flesh

Tyson E. Lewis

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