Pedagogies of magic have their own cocooned metaphors waiting to hatch. In literature and the arts, magic ties its practitioners to systems of learning and methods of becoming. Enchanted Pedagogies, edited by Kari Adelaide Razdow, is a collection of essays by artists and writers who reflect on archetypes and tropes of enchantment, intertwining elements such as transformation, imagination, creativity, and empathy. These essays evoke shapeshifters, witches, ghosts, fools, fairies, hags, gnomes, selkies, and more, exploring multi-disciplinary artistic practices. Enchanted Pedagogies presents ways to expand, imagine, and circumvent modes of creativity and pedagogies through personal, theoretical, practice based, and hybrid explorations. The fantastic and poetic intertwine in a space of reflexive storytelling, renewing significant transformational elements of the arts and education. Contributors are: Jesse Bransford, Vanessa Chakour, Trinie Dalton, Lorenzo De Los Angeles, Thom Donovan, Laura Forsberg, Pam Grossman, Amy Hale, Elizabeth Insogna, Candice Ivy, Tiffany Jewell, Alessandro Keegan, Jac Lahav, Ruth Lingford, Maria Pinto, Kris N. Racaniello, Kari Adelaide Razdow, Alicia Smith, Janaka Stucky, Kay Turner, Meg Whiteford and Erin Yerby.
Kari Adelaide Razdow, Ed.D. (2020), Teachers College, Columbia University, curates at The Sphinx Northeast. Her writing has appeared in Hyperallergic, BOMB, NYLON, Two Coats of Paint, the Walker Art Center Blog, Eyes towards the Dove, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere.
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: How Do You Come to Know Magic?
âKari Adelaide Razdow
2 Huldufólk
âJesse Bransford
3 Shedding Skins
âVanessa Chakour
4 The Gnome Report from Mother Lode Country
âTrinie Dalton
5 Ghosting Ghosts
âLorenzo De Los Angeles
6 Pedagogy of Necromancy: A Workshop Exercise and Its Enactment
âThom Donovan
7 In the Shadow of Toadstools: Fairies and the Natural World
âLaura Forsberg
8 Witch Transmissions
âPam Grossman
9 SMART Goals Are Magic
âAmy Hale
10 The Goddess
âElizabeth Insogna
11 Reflections on Alchemy
âCandice Ivy
12 Shapeshifter
âTiffany Jewell
13 From the Stars or the Booming Labyrinth of the Mind: UFOs, Memories, and Myths
âAlessandro Keegan
14 Historical-Ish Fiction on the Legend of Baba Yaga
âJac Lahav
15 The Hag: Metamorphosis
âRuth Lingford
16 Where Is the Lie: Anansi the Trickster, Traveler, NFT-Minter
âMaria Pinto
17 Sibyl Pedagogy//Civic Pedagogy
âKris N. Racaniello
18 Traversing the Boundaries of Fairyland
âKari Adelaide Razdow
19 Medusa
âAlicia Smith
20 The Golem: On Language and Becoming
âJanaka Stucky
21 Hekate: Goddess for the Twenty-First Century
âKay Turner
22 Fool Party
âMeg Whiteford
23 Precipitated Spirit Painting and Visionary Space
âErin Yerby
All interested in art and education, enchantment, pedagogies, cultural studies, fantasy and science fiction, and magic. Enchanted Pedagogies may resonate with an audience of educators, learners, researchers, artists, and writers.