Pedagogy of the Depressed

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Av Christopher Schaberg

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This book is one English professor’s assessment of university life in the early 21st century. From rising mental health concerns and trigger warnings to learning management systems and the COVID pandemic, Christopher Schaberg reflects on the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education.Adopting an interdisciplinary public humanities approach, Schaberg considers the frequently exhausting and depressing realities of college today. Yet in these meditations he also finds hope: collaboration, mentoring, less grading, surface reading, and other pedagogical strategies open up opportunities to reinvigorate teaching and learning in the current turbulent decade.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-13
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt358 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor184
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501364587

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Christopher Schaberg is Dorothy Harrell Brown Distinguished Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, USA. He is the author of The Textual Life of Airports: Reading the Culture of Flight (2011), The End of Airports (2015), Airportness: The Nature of Flight (2017), as well as The Work of Literature in an Age of Post-Truth (2018), and Searching for the Anthropocene: A Journey into the Environmental Humanities (December, 2019). He is co-series editor, with Ian Bogost, of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series.

Prologue: No Place Like HomeIntroduction: The Depressed1. We’re All Screens2. Early Warnings3. Learning Management4. Against Sheep5. Trigger U.6. Ecophobia7. Environmental Humanities?8. Public Humanities?9. Skimming the Surface10. Autotheory11. Beginnings12. Chance Meeting13. Theory Today14. END MEETING FOR ALL15. Night Writing16. Less Grading17. Tenure18. Exhaustion19. Well-Rounded20. Turning Kids into Capital21. Writing Together22. Adjusting23. First-Year Seminar24. Pitt’s Law25. Into the Unknown

What readers may not anticipate and should be delighted by the presence of, is a vast range of topics—seemingly randomly interspersed throughout the book—that break up the chapters of both theoretical musings and practical applications of managing the college literature classroom in the early twenty-first century world of pandemic lockdowns, changing university concerns, and the post-Postmodern world of businessmen in the White House. The honest tone of Schaberg’s prose is refreshingly welcome—he is continuously questioning what he is doing, why, and how is it affecting his students as well as providing critiques of what is wrong with higher education. [...] The optimism and pessimism of our current teaching mode alternate throughout Pedagogy of the Depressed. Schaberg's deepest concerns mirror many of ours. That administration will not see moving online as a fearful, temporary situation, but rather as a new efficient system that eliminates all sorts of issues, including those of class size limits or scheduling issues. We are depressingly isolated from our colleagues and valuable impromptu discussions and collaborations. A bonus? Throughout the book, Schaberg also talks about other texts that speak to the issues he is addressing. This is a great, and much appreciated, way to increase our academic TBR piles.