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Critical Emotionality - Toward an Affective Model of Humanization in the Theory & Practice of Critical Pedagogy
This thesis explores the intersection of affect theory and critical pedagogy. The final chapter outlines what I called a critical affective literacy which is an embodied awareness of affect and its expressions, as well as a simultaneous application of a critical lens of analysis. This lens asserts that our emotional reality is both shaped by our physiology and psychology, but is also manipulated by systemic power structures as a method of miniating dehumanizing systems such as racism and sexism. A critical affective literacy defines dehumanization as the systemic inhibition of ones attempts to meet their own or their community’s needs. Therefore, critical pedagogues can incorporate critical affective literacy as a tool to both analyze systemic oppression, and actualize concrete humanizing pedagogical tactics. Please join me for my graduation presentation where I will share my process of writing my thesis and share the details from my findings as well as answer any questions regarding it. Thanks!
Oliver Holloway lives in Denver, CO where he has been a community organizer and educator for the past 20 years. He earned his BA in community education in from Goddard 2013 where he studied his the tensions in his role as a white community organizer in a gentrifying neighborhood. He an advocate for Universal Basic Income and is deeply passionate about his career as artist and musician as well as work as caregiver for his terminally ill sister.
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