Haines Lyon, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8341-744X (2025) New Populism and education: from target to response. FORUM for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education. (In Press)

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Abstract

New populism, characterised by cultural grievance, conspiratorial thinking, and hostility to expertise, poses a distinct threat to education. This article examines how education has become a target of populist de-legitimisation, with educators framed as woke elites ‘poisoning’ children. However, it also argues that education offers a crucial site of response. Drawing on Zembylas, the article contends that critical thinking alone is insufficient to counter populism's affective appeal. Instead, education must develop students’ capacity to examine their own emotional responses to political rhetoric. Through ‘pedagogies of discomfort’ and the cultivation of love as political practice, education can resist populism's inward-looking binaries and nurture the relational capacities that democratic life requires.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	In Press
Subjects:	J Political Science > JC Political theory L Education > L Education (General)
School/Department:	School of Education, Language and Psychology
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/13735

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