Pedagogy of the Depressed

Pedagogy of the Depressed
Christopher Schaberg
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10 Mar 2022 US
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9781501364570
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This book is one English professor' s assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education. Adopting an interdisciplinary public humanities approach, Schaberg considers the frequently exhausting and depressing realities of college today. Yet in these meditations he also finds hope: collaboration, mentoring, less grading, surface reading, and other pedagogical strategies open up opportunities to reinvigorate teaching and learning in the current turbulent decade.
How do you teach through trauma? All college instructors have found themselves facing this question in recent days, but few with the insight and poignancy of Christopher Schaberg. Pedagogy of the Depressed provides both diagnosis and balm for those anxious about the possibilities for higher education in the midst of climate change and active shooter events and pandemic response and budgetary collapse, a profound reckoning with the conditions of learning today. * Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English, Michigan State University, USA, and author of Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University * If the title page didn' t say Christopher Schaberg so plainly, I might have assumed the author was Guy Montag, protagonist of Ray Bradbury' s Fahrenheit 451. Both are suffering through a takeover by the machinery, technological and bureaucratic; both hold onto a humanistic ideal in the midst of it all. Pedagogy of the Depressed is in some ways precisely the opposite of what its title promises: rather than depressing, it' s a hopeful pushback against the pervasive air of depression and lowered expectations that has overtaken too many of our classrooms, and whose metaphor-if not cause-is Covid-19 and the ubiquity of the Zoom screen. Come for the jeremiad-but stay for the wise encouragement, that this work we do with students still matters. Perhaps matters more than ever. * Kevin Dettmar, W. M. Keck Professor of English and Director, The Humanities Studio, Pomona College, USA *
Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2011), The End of Airports (2015), Airportness: The Nature of Flight (2017), as well as The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), and Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental Humanities (December, 2019). He is co-series editor, with Ian Bogost, of Bloomsbury' s Object Lessons series.
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ISBN-13: 9781501364570
Published: 10 Mar 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 184

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