Derek R. Ford
PEDAGOGY
IN THE POST-TRUTH ERA: AN ANTI-TRUMP PRO-TEST!
A Seminar by Derek R.
Ford (Assistant Professor of Education Studies, DePauw University, USA)
University of East London
Stratford Campus
Cass School of Education & Communities
17th October 2018
12.30 – 2.00pm
Room: ED201
Abstract: Those who are in shock that truth doesn't seem to matter in
politics today miss the mark, for politics has never corresponded with truth.
Instead, political struggle is about the formulation and materialization of new
truths. In this sense, the "post-truth" era offers a new opportunity to articulate and fight for a new political
reality. Yet rather than embrace this opportunity, the mainstream anti-Trump
"resistance" aims to suture this opening and re-stabilize the political
superstructure. This paper focuses instead on the left-wing resistance that's
organizing and mobilizing to force a new world into being. After articulating
the coordinates of our "post-truth" moment, it investigates the
educational logic of the protest. Specifically, I propose that the protest is
when movements test their political line, their organizational capacity, and
the existing order of things.
Biographical details: Derek R. Ford is Assistant Professor of Education studies at
DePauw University, USA. His research emerges from the nexus of subjectivity,
pedagogy, and revolutionary struggles. He has written and edited seven books,
including Communist Study and Politics and Pedagogy in the
"Post-Truth" Era: Insurgent Philosophy and Praxis. He is education
chair at The Hampton Institute (a working-class think tank), an organizer with
the Answer Coalition, and co-editor of LiberationSchool.org.
Seminar details: This seminar is organised by Dr Alpesh Maisuria, Senior
Lecturer Education Studies, part of the International Centre for Public
Pedagogy (ICuP) and the Marxism and Education and Education: Renewing Dialogues
Series (MERD Co-Convenors Alpesh Maisuria and Tony Green).
Links:
Derek Ford's book: Politics and Pedagogy in the “Post-Truth”
Era: https://www.bloomsbury.com/…/politics-and-pedagogy-in-the-…/
Dr. Alpesh Maisuria: https://alpeshmaisuria.academia.edu/
Tony Green's Marxism and
Education Palgrave book series https://www.palgrave.com/gb/series/14811
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