Should You Kill the Spider?

Pedagogy Oct 2023

Anna Ioanes

Abstract

Abstract The appearance of a spider in the classroom can disrupt the flow of teaching, often prompting strong reactions that unsettle classroom norms. Minor classroom disruptions like this might not seem worth theorizing, but this essay reframes such disruptions as rich sites for understanding the role of affect in humanities pedagogy. Ultimately arguing against killing a spider in the classroom, this essay theorizes the moment of disruption as an opportunity to model humanistic attention to both human and nonhuman actors in the classroom space.

Journal: Pedagogy
Published: 2023-10-01
DOI: 10.1215/15314200-10640090
Open Access: Closed
Topics: multimodality affect and writing

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