From 'therapeutic' to political education: the centrality of affective sensibility in critical pedagogy

• Published in: Critical studies in education Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 47 - 63
• Main Author: Amsler, Sarah S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne Taylor & Francis 01.02.2011; Routledge; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Colleges & universities; Critical pedagogy; Critical Theory; Education; Educational Philosophy; Educational theories; Foreign Countries; Humanistic Education; Ideology; Knowledge (Theory); Learning; Neoliberalism; Pedagogy; pedagogy of discomfort; Political science; Politics of Education; Role of Education; Social Change; subject-transformation; Teaching; Tertiary education; therapeutic education; Therapy; Universities; Well being

While the need for humanising education is pressing in neoliberal societies, the conditions for its possibility in formal institutions have become particularly cramped. A constellation of factors - the strength of neoliberal ideologies, the corporatisation of universities, the conflation of human fr...