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.”
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)

