Reversible Public Pedagogy

• In Event: Self, Society, and Education for Belonging

Abstract

Public pedagogy operates as an inquiry into education and learning that is not dependent on schooling. The field is interested in popular culture, (in)formal sites of activism and learning, and public intellectuals. It seeks nontraditional ways of looking at education, and welcomes nontraditional thinking.
Jean Baudrillard was captivated by opportunity, like his concept of reversibility. Reversibility is a challenge and a game, which disavows the possibility of perfect reproduction and seeks the upending of anything that exists exclusively on self-reference.
We can engage with a reversible public pedagogy that questions its reproducibility, seeks its referents and locality, and helps us refuse to take for granted the established structure of education paradigms.

Author

• Corey Bray, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill