Author: Rosi Braidotti File Type: pdf This book addresses contemporary philosophical issues in higher education and how we can create socially just pedagogies and a socially just university. Providing a forum for thinking through how critical posthumanism, affect theory and feminist new materialisms provide a useful lens for higher education, and shows how these standpoints can benefit methods and practices of learning and teaching. Gross inequalities in higher education continue to affect pedagogical practices across geopolitical contexts and there is a need to consider new theories which call into question the commonplace humanist assumptions currently dominating the discourse around social justice in this context. However scholarship on the affective turn, critical posthumanism and new material feminisms, opens both new possibilities and responsibilities for higher education pedagogies. The approaches of this book also provide imaginative ways of engaging with current dissatisfactions with higher education, from the marketization of education, to issues of racism, discrimination and lack of diversity. Of international relevance, this collection particularly foreground southern contexts and case studies, such as the student activism in South African universities that has sparked a global project of decolonization and social justice in educational institutions. This book is an urgent call to reconceptualize, rethink and reconfigure pedagogies in higher education and the implications for future citizenship and social participation. **Review Continuing the most exciting and challenging histories of engaged feminist thought, the chapters in Socially Just Pedagogies grapple with the lived histories of inequality-structured by race, gender, sexuality, coloniality, and age-and use specific sites of educational struggle as occasions to test and transform the ways we understand materiality, subjectivity, and most importantly the social. Without ever losing touch with the intra-human violences that structure global relations, the authors forcefully re-imagine pedagogy as always more-than-human. This incredible book makes the case that feminist education is constitutively materialist and nonhumanist, and that new materialist politics are inescapably pedagogical. -- Nathan Snaza, Director, Bridge to Success Program, Department of English, University of Richmond, USA A strong case for the theoretical input of posthuman and affect theory, this is new to the field of educational studies and is much needed. The authors have produced a fine piece of work. This should be a big player in the critical educational literature. -- Dan Goodley, Professor of Disability Studies and Education, University of Sheffield, UK Its about time we had a book like this, that tackles educations unswerving adherence to outdated 20th century humanist premises. The most apparent strength is the editors (and contributors) strong grasp on the posthumanist, affective and new materialist theoretical perspectives that frame this collection. The emphasis on southern perspectives is very refreshing and will make a unique contribution to the broader posthumanist educational field, which is dominated by global north theorists and research. Particularly interesting because it also documents the recent student activism in South African universities, these challenges to the humanist norms of educational practice are overdue. This book is one of the first ones to make the challenges - others will follow. -- Affrica Taylor, Associate Professor of Geographies of Education and Childhood, University of Canberra, Australia About the Author Vivienne Bozalek is Professor of Social Work and the Director of Teaching and Learning at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Tamara Shefer is Professor of Womens and Gender Studies and currently Deputy Dean of Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Michalinos Zembylas is Professor of Educational Theory and Curriculum Studies at the Open University of Cyprus.

Author: Ollie Jensen Theisen File Type: pdf As a result of her friendship with Dr. Biggers, Dr. Theisen clearly has unique access to the works that are now held by the Biggers estate. Her interviews provide a deeply personal insight into the mind of this remarkable man and the symbols he employed in his art.---R. William McCarter, Regents Professor of Art, University of North TexasThis is a very valuable book for anyone interested in master African American artists.---Dr. Margaret Rose Vendryes, artist and independent scholarPraise for A Life on Paper The Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas BiggersThis volume by Theisen presents a highly respectable, concise biography of the life and graphic work of John Biggers, now recognized as a major African American artist.---ChoiceA beautiful tribute to a man and his art---Review of Texas BooksCover image is a detail from Salt March, 1998. Acrylic on canvas. Approx. 96 x 120 in. University of Houston Student Life Center, Houston.John Thomas Biggers (1924-2001) was one of the most significant African American artists of the twentieth century. He was known for his murals, but also for his drawings, paintings, and lithographs, and was honored by a major traveling retrospective exhibition from 1995 to 1997. He created archetypal imagery that spoke positively to the rich and varied ethnic heritage of African Americans, long before the Civil Rights era drew attention to their African cultural roots. His influence upon other artists was profound, both for the power of his art and as professor and elder statesman to younger generations.Olive Jensen Theisens long-time commitment to the art of John Biggers resulted from the serendipitous discovery of an early Biggers mural in a school storeroom in the mid-1980s. Theisen immediately recognized the artist, the work, and its significance. She then set about returning The History of Negro Education in Morris County, Texas to a place of honor and found herself becoming a friend and recorder of John Biggerss stories and experiences relating to the creation of his other murals too, including Family Unity at Texas Southern University.Containing more than eighty color and black-and-white illustrations, Walls that Speak is a richly illustrated update of an earlier edition published in 1996. The artist completed new murals between its publication and his death in 2001. In addition to the inclusion of the new murals, Theisen has added a chapter on Biggerss African art collection. The only work exclusively dedicated to his murals, this book will appeal to all those interested in murals or African American art.