Ligia Pelosi

Mark Vicars

This book examines how teaching and learning and teacher and student identities are being reframed in higher education by neoliberal policies and practices. It shares how teachers perform teaching and learning duties in relation to prescribed institutional policies and how teachers insert dissonant pedagogies as a critical practice. The book explores narrative pedagogy as a disruptive presence and a space for critique. It interrogates personal/professional experience of educational systems that present educators juggling complexity and meeting competing demands to make learning meaningful for students. Each contribution will act as a counterpoint and provide a synoptic method for comparison. The book re-constructs meaning from the generic narrative of the public face of education, which homogenizes and diminishes collective understandings of teachers and teaching. This book provides a contemporary account of the social realities experienced within the higher education classroom across the globe.

Encounters and Disruptions

Storying Pedagogy as Critical Praxis in the Neoliberal University

A novel about teachers and teaching in neoliberal times. It depicts teachers’ struggle to restore meaning and a sense of joy in education. The novel is accompanied by a commentary on fiction narrative as research.

Ligia Pelosi

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