The joy of learning: Feminist materialist pedagogies and the freedom of education |
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| Authors: | Maria Tamboukou |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Social Sciences, University of East London, London, UKm.tamboukou@uel.ac.uk |
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| Abstract: | AbstractIn this article, I trace lines of materialist pedagogies in the history of women workers’ education following feminist interpretations of Spinoza’s assemblage of joyful affects. More particularly, I focus on the notions of laetitia joy], gaudium gladness] and hilaritas cheerfulness] as entanglements of joy and trace their expression in practices and discourses inscribed in archival documents that I have reassembled around the theme of women workers’ education. My reading of Ethics follows a range of feminist thinkers that have engaged with Spinoza’s ‘ethics of joy’ in education and beyond. The article draws on extensive archival work with personal auto/biographical documents and public essays of women workers/educators/writers in Paris and New York that span the period between 1830 and 1950. What I argue is that it is the experience of creative and radical education that has created a platform for workers to re-imagine themselves in the world with others. |
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| Keywords: | Ethics of joy materialist pedagogies women workers’ education imagination freedom |
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