Kai Syng Tan (Author) (2024) Looking for love in 2024 Society for Research into Higher Education
Abstract
In this op-ed published for the Valentine's season on the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) blog, I am looking for and locating concepts and actions around a four-letter word - love -- to counter hate, bias, harm and kill-ings. I share some of my own efforts and aspirations within and outside of the ivory tower. As Paolo Freire states, education’s mission is to build a world where it is easier to love.The radical pedagogist aside, James Baldwin and bell hooks also make cameos, as did several contemporary exceptional decolonial movers, shakers and change-makers whom I have been (un-)learning from.I pay tribute to my own students from the inaugural MA Arts and Cultural Leadership programme @maaclwsa too, whose openness and willingness to embrace love and other radical EDI-focused framings of leadership have been humbling.The article is a call to co-create ways with fellow artist-lovers, to love-bomb the classroom and beyond, with oxytocin, justice, solidarity, humanisation, liberation and joy, so as to move towards freedom, for 2024 and beyond.Read short version on Council for Higher Education in Art and Design (CHEAD) website 14th February 2024.
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