Affect in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The “affective turn” has greatly influenced work in cultural studies, the humanities and the social sciences and it is increasingly influencing educational research. Theorists have embraced conceptions of affect to put pressure on humanist legacies of subjectivity, telos-driven narratives of temporality, and Cartesian devaluations of the body’s experiences and intelligences. Affect has opened up means of exploring sociality through moods, atmospheres, “public feelings,” emotions and “pre-personal intensities” (Massumi, 1987) and has provided a critical vocabulary and new methodological tools for theorizing how these forces traverse and animate both human and nonhuman bodies. This session links researchers thinking with affect in a variety of spaces and contexts to explore how affect might help us think and do educational research differently.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 2: Histories and Futurities (The Frames of Curriculum)

Chair

• Nancy L. Lesko, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Reanimating Affective Agency - Bessie Dernikos, Florida Atlantic University

• Affects of Sensational True Crime Sex and Violence Texts - A. Jonathan Eakle, George Washington University

• Animating Teachers: Affect and Educational Reform - Nancy L. Lesko, Teachers College, Columbia University

• The Cruelty of Happy Futures and Female Success With/in the Logics of "College" Knowledge - Stephanie McCall, Teachers College, Columbia University

• After-Affects and the Mexican American Studies Ban in Tucson, Arizona - Alyssa D. Niccolini, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussant

• Lisa A. Mazzei, University of Oregon