Dark Pedagogy

Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard is Associate Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark. Stefan Bengtsson is Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden.  Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen researches in Education Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Living in Dark Times.- PART I. The horror of education.- Chapter 2. Denial.- Chapter 3. Insanity.- Chapter 4. Death.- PART II. Towards dark pedagogy.- Chapter 5. Dark pedagogy between denial and insanity.- Chapter 6. Dark pedagogy in the Anthropocene.- Chapter 7. A pedagogy of vulnerability

“Dark Pedagogy offers fresh perspectives on pedagogical possibilities for these dark times in which our encounters with the more-than-human (such as the climate crisis and a novel, highly contagious virus) are often manifested by denial, insanity, and death.” (Noel Gough, Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education, Vol. 23, 2020)