Love Pedagogy

Love pedagogy is an educational practice Lisa Arrastia has been writing about since 2014; it is the foundation of The Ed Factory’s teaching and creative process.

To practice a love pedagogy is to be in relationship with your own fragile state on Earth, your own pain, and your own suffering; it is to simultaneously be in relationship with students’ pain and dissatisfaction, their innate desire to know and understand; it is to acknowledge openly to the kids, not your stupidity, but your ongoing ignorance about the human condition; it is to design content that interests you, yes, but that provides ways for students to connect to themselves and witness others as both breakable and deserving of honor.
— from "Love Pedagogy: Teaching to Disrupt," Lisa Arrastia

Read more of Love Pedagogy: Teaching to Disrupt in The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences, and Solutions, eds. Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan, Pedro Noguera, and Alisha Ali (NYU Press)