Speculative Critical Pedagogy: From Cultural to Ontological Politics

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Abstract

In this paper, we develop an alternative theoretical foundation from which to consider the challenges and ongoing importance of critical pedagogy. We theorize science and speculative fiction as supporting a shift towards engagements with ontological politics, creating a space of creative inquiry and pedagogical provocation that facilitates and enables world building alternative onto-epistemic orientations, and novel praxes of being human. Speculation is a mode of inquiry that expands possibilities beyond those binary categories often used to make sense of the world. We focus on works of science fiction that critique, counter, and reconstruct the version of humanism that organizes liberal democratic politics, creating a more capacious space for thinking and doing justice-oriented education.

Authors

• Tristan G. Gleason, California State Polytechnic University - Humboldt

• Asilia K. Franklin-Phipps, SUNY - College at New Paltz