Pedagogies of Hope

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This is a long-term project to which I’m heavily committed politically.

Working with a range of radical teacher and democratic educator groups, the aim is to draw on some of the stuff I’ve written about “pedagogies of hope” and “utopian pedagogy” and develop a live and interactive set of pedagogical resources which operate within, against and beyond: within the constraints of contemporary schooling but against the oppressive, alienating, degrading, exploitative system within which education is embedded and pointing beyond society-as-it-is towards society as it could be.

Publications

Webb D (forthcoming) Hope and the utopian impulse. In N. Snow (ed) Hope. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Webb D. (2019) Education and the construction of hope. In R. Green (ed) Theories of Hope: Exploring Alternative Affective Dimensions of Human Experience. Lanham MD: Lexington, 131-154.

Webb D. (2017) Educational archaeology and the practice of utopian pedagogy. Pedagogy, Culture and Society 25(4), 551-566.

Webb D (2013) Pedagogies of hope. Studies in the Philosophy of Education 32(4), 397-414.

Dr Darren Webb

Deputy Director of Research
School of Education
Email
d.webb@sheffield.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 114 222 7084
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