Offering a unique, interdisciplinary approach through integration of concepts from education, philosophy, social work, and the affective sciences, this volume provides a unique pedagogical perspective on how affectivity can become an educative opportunity in the classroom.
By foregrounding the importance of interactions occurring between more-than-human entities in and beyond classroom settings, the book promotes a socio-material approach to pedagogy. This emphasis on fostering learning environments where students and teachers feel valued, supported, and empowered distinguishes the book from other texts and aligns with contemporary educational and philosophical theories advocating for the significance of affect-based learning and relational pedagogies. Chapters engage the reader in processes of ‘thinking with theory’, drawing on data gathered from real-world educational settings via participative and collaborative research with teachers, students, and researchers.
Ultimately offering a compelling and multi-layered exploration of affect as a vital, yet often under-theorized, dimension of pedagogical practice, this book will be of value to researchers, postgraduates and scholars in the fields of Classroom Practice, theories of learning, and curriculum studies more broadly.
Offering a unique, interdisciplinary approach through integration of concepts from education, philosophy, social work, and the affective sciences, this volume provides a unique pedagogical perspective on how affectivity can become an educative opportunity in the classroom.
Introduction: Reimagining Pedagogy Through the Lens of Affect and
Multiplicity
Aspasia Dania & Maria Impedovo
SECTION ONE: RESEARCH BASE ON AFFECTIVITY AS PEDAGOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
1. Introduction to Affectivity as Pedagogy in the Classroom
Michael Schratz
SECTION TWO: THE TEACHING-LEARNING RELATIONSHIP REVISED
2. Affectivity as a pedagogical approach for transforming teaching-learning
relationships
Maria Impedovo
3. Affectivity as connection to non-human entities and material things
Aspasia Dania
4. Affect - Emotions - Feelings in the teaching-learning relationship
Erica Belli
SECTION THREE: DIMENSIONS OF AFFECTIVITY AS PEDAGOGY
5 . Affective Geographies
Aspasia Dania, Dylan Scanlon, Carla Luguetti
6. Ethical dimensions: Educating hearts and minds through discussion-based
pedagogy
Noriyuki Inoue
7. Embodiment as the is-ness of affect in the classroom
Aspasia Dania
SECTION FOUR: STRATEGIES & APPROACHES FOR PRACTICING AFFECTIVITY IN THE
CLASSROOM
8. Playfulness as pedagogy in the classroom
Aspasia Dania
9. Affective Soundscapes. Attending to sound as classroom pedagogy
Aspasia Dania
10. Performative-Based Strategies- Dramatisation
Maria Impedovo
11. Collective Methodologies - Perezhivanie Francesco Arcidiacono
SECTION FIVE: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES
12. Critical Affect Literacy
Maria Impedovo
13. What if we looked inward? Apathy
Hannah Thomas, Lashanah Thomas-Walker
14. Affective Noticing
Maria Impedovo
15. Building rapport in synchronous online classrooms: A study on educators
beliefs and strategies
Mandana Arfa-Kaboodvand, Karen Ferreira-Meyers
Aspasia Dania is Associate Professor in Physical Education Teacher Education, at the School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Maria Impedovo is Associate Professor at ADEF Laboratory (Learning, Teaching, Assessment, and Training) in Educational Psychology, Aix-Marseille University, France.
