On Failure (On Pedagogy): Editorial Introduction

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Notes

¹ For just four of the most prominent recent publications, see Le Feuvre (2010), Halberstam (2011), Bailes (2011) and Antebi et al. (2007). Other initiatives such as the 2009 Zagreb PSi Conference on Misperformance and Tim Etchells's and Adrian Heathfield's Institute of Failure are indicative of failure's recent currency.

² Scholars of critical pedagogy have addressed this dominant affect of higher education, arguing both for critical realism and for a hopeful persistence in the face of dismal odds – what Ernst Bloch called ‘educated hope’ (Giroux 2002 and Dolan 2005).

³ On the imperialism of hope, see Edelman (2004).