Resources for Hopeful Pedagogies

Del Rosso, Jared. 2021. “How Loss Teaches: Beyond ‘Pandemic Pedagogy.’” Humanity & Society 45(3):423–34. doi.org:10.1177/0160597620987008.

Del Rosso, Jared. 2022. Denial: How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems. New York: New York University Press.

Del Rosso, Jared. Forthcoming. “Teaching Toward Hope: Centering Possibility in Courses on Collective Problems.” In Emerging Stronger: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic, edited by Jeffrey Chin and Michelle Kozimor. Routledge.

Emirbayer, Mustafa, and Ann Mische. 1998. “What Is Agency?” American Journal of Sociology 103(4):962–1023. doi: 10.1086/231294.

Gannon, Kevin M. 2020. Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press.

Goodwin, Glenn A. 1987. “Humanistic Sociology and the Craft of Teaching.” Teaching Sociology 15(1):15–20. doi: 10.2307/1317812.

Holthaus, Eric. 2020. The Future Earth: A Radical Vision for What’s Possible in the Age of Warming. New York, NY: HarperOne.

hooks, bell. 2014. Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge.

Hurst, Rachel Alpha Johnston. 2009. “What Might We Learn From Heartache? Loss, Loneliness, and Pedagogy.” Feminist Teacher 20(1):31–41. doi: 10.5406/femteacher.20.1.0031.

Johnson, Brett. 2005. “Overcoming ‘Doom and Gloom’: Empowering Students in Courses on Social Problems, Injustice, and Inequality.” Teaching Sociology 33(1):44–58. doi: 10.1177/0092055X0503300104.

Lueck, Michelle A. M. 2007. “Hope for a Cause as Cause for Hope: The Need for Hope in Environmental Sociology.” The American Sociologist 38(3):250–61. doi: 10.1007/s12108-007-9017-7.

Martinez-Cola, Marisela, Rocco English, Jennifer Min, Jonathan Peraza, Jamesetta Tambah, and Christina Yebuah. 2018. “When Pedagogy Is Painful: Teaching in Tumultuous Times.” Teaching Sociology 46(2):97–111. doi: 10.1177/0092055X17754120.

Netting, Nancy S. 1994. “Can an Individual Change Society? Empowering Students in a Context of Social Reality.” Teaching Sociology 22(2):200–203. doi: 10.2307/1318567.

Norgaard, Kari Marie. 2011. Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Petersen, Brian and Jessica R. Barnes. 2020. “From Hopelessness to Transformation in Geography Classrooms.” Journal of Geography 119(1):3–11. doi: 10.1080/00221341.2019.1566395.

Ross, Courtney B. and Theresa Rocha Beardall. 2022. “Promoting Empathy and Reducing Hopelessness Using Contemplative Practices.” Teaching Sociology 52(3):256–68. doi: 10.1177/0092055X221092014.

Salazar, María. 2013. “A Humanizing Pedagogy: Reinventing the Principles and Practice of Education as a Journey Toward Liberation.” Review of Research in Education 37(1):121–48. doi: 10.3102/0091732X12464032.

Savage, Brenda. 2022. “Help Me See the ‘Magnificent’ Side of Sociology: The Outcomes of a Community Action and Involvement Course Designed to Help Undergraduates View Themselves as Agentic.” Teaching Sociology 50(2):107–121. doi: 10.1177/0092055X211068452.

Snyder, C. R. 2005. “Teaching: The Lessons of Hope.” Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 24(1):72–84. doi: 10.1521/jscp.24.1.72.59169.

Solnit, Rebecca. 2016. Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.

Solnit, Rebecca. 2017. “Grounds for Hope.” Tikkun. 32(1):30–9. https://read.dukeupress.edu/tikkun/article/32/1/30/30634/Grounds-For-Hope.

Standish, Katerina. 2019. “Learning How to Hope: A Hope Curriculum.” Humanity & Society 43(4):484–504. doi: 10.1177/0160597618814886.

Wallace, Richard L., Jess Greenburg, and Susan G. Clark. 2020. “Confronting Anxiety and Despair in Environmental Studies and Sciences: An Analysis and Guide for Students and Faculty.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 10(2):148–55. doi: 10.1007/s13412-020-00609-6

Wright, Erik Olin. 2011. “Real Utopias.” Contexts 10(2):36–42. doi: 10.1177/1536504211408884.

Yogan, Lissa. 2015. “North Central Sociological Association Presidential Address 2014: Positively Teaching Positive Sociology.” Sociological Focus 48(1):1–15. doi: 10.1080/00380237.2015.98020