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Critical Hope and Other Academic Virtues

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Critical Hope and Other Academic Virtues

In considering hope critically, I believe that we will be able to think more deeply about pedagogy, about our lives as educators, and about the relationships that form our communities. In its radical openness and possibility, hope is our vehicle for reclaiming agency in the face of despair. If we let it, hope can be a collaborative and imaginative process by which we overcome despair and reclaim agency in our pedagogy, pushing us forward to collectively reimagine the future and its possibilities.
(Jacobs, Dale. (2005). “What’s Hope Got to Do With It?: Theorizing Hope in Education.” JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 25 (4), 783-802. https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/englishpub/11 )