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.

“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)

• 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