In “Going Postal,” Worsham “argue[s] that if our commitment is to real individual and social change — change that would finally dissolve the relationship between pedagogy and violence — then the work of decolonization must occur at the affective level, not only to reconstitute the emotional life of the individual but also, and more importantly, to restructure the feeling or mood that characterizes an age. To be sure, our most urgent political and pedagogical task remains the fundamental reeducation of emotion” (216).
This article is rife with good thoughts on emotion and pedagogy….
Worsham, Lynn. “Going Postal: Pedagogic Violence and the Schooling of Emotion.“ JAC 18.2 (1998): 213-45.
