Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education

Mike Seal is the National Officer of the Professional Association of Lecturers in Youth and Community Work, a Visiting Professor at Newman University Birmingham, UK, and Leeds Beckett University, UK, and a freelance educational consultant.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Series Editor’s Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Are Hopeful Pedagogies Possible in Higher Education
Section One: Key Ideas and the Conceptual and Policy Terrain
1. Key Concepts of Critical Pedagogy: How We Teach – Mike Seal, response by Alan Smith
2. Critiques of Critical Pedagogy: The Post Critical– Leoarna Mathias & Mike Gilsenan, response by Joris Vlieghe
3. Perspective on the possibility of Hopeful Critical Pedagogies within Higher Education – Mike Seal, response by Stephen Cowden
4. The Higher Education Policy Landscape: Resistance is Possible – Sarah Parkes and Jane Beniston, response by Neil M Speirs
5. The Pedagogy of Partnership – John Peters and Leoarna Mathias, response by Professor Mike Neary
Section Two: Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education
Hopeful Pedagogy within Courses
6. Early Years to Higher Education: Legacy and the Creation and Connection of Hopeful Spaces - Julie Boardman and Jane Beniston, response from Carol Aubrey.
7. Widening the Cracks: Co- Constructing Learning Within Dialogical Spaces - Jane Beniston and Debbie Harris, response from Dr. László Varga PhD
8. Preparing for an Unexpected Journey! Exploring the Experience of Teaching Critical Pedagogy through Critical Pedagogy– Helen Bardy & Mike Gilsenan, response Christine Smith
9. Academic Identities: Conversations across the Cracks – Roger Willoughby & Parminder Assi, response from Marina Tornero Tarragó
Hopeful Pedagogies within Structures
10. The ‘Rehearsal Space’: Viewing Induction and Transition Work as a Critical Pedagogy Practice - Sarah Parkes & Leoarna Mathias, response by Professor Liz Thomas
11. ‘Very Much a Democratic Thing’: Enacting the Pedagogy of Partnership - Leoarna Mathias And John Peters, response by Professor Mike Neary
12. Foundation Years: Undoing Discourses of Deficit - Pheobe Hall, Leoarna Mathias, Kace Mcgowan, Sarah Parkes, Samantha Snelleksz, and Mike Seal, response Dr Sarah Hall
Becoming the Hopeful Pedagogue
13. A mindful journey – Person-Centred and Contemplative Critical Approaches to Higher Education - Ruth Roberts, response by Luca Tateo
14. Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in Higher Education through a Psychosocial Lens – Pete Harris, response by Jo Trelfa
15. It's been Emotional - Exploring the Emotional Impact of Critical Pedagogy Practice with Non-Traditional Students – Pauline Grace, Adella Snape and Lorna Morgan, response by Dana Fusco
Hopeful Pedagogies in the Spaces In-Between
16. Sit Down Next To Me: Reflections On Academic Advising And Pedagogical Love - Peter Sharpe, response by Professor Paul Prinsloo
17. Pushing at an Open Door… - Tina Mcloughlin,
18. Quality Assurance or Assured Silence? – Lorraine Loveland-Armour, response from Sean Bracken
Hopeful Pedagogies beyond the Institution
19. University as Community: Breaking the Circle of Certainty. – Tina Mclouglin, Lead Rolfe and Mike Seal, response from Simone Helleren.
20. College-Based Higher Education: a New Hope - Karima Kadi-Hanifi & John Keenan, response by Paula McElerney
Conclusion: Hopeful Pedagogies Are Possible In Higher Education