Teaching with Love and Walking Beside in the Neoliberal University: A Dialogue.

In this article we "work on" the university, to use Sara Ahmed's important phrasing about the work of rebuilding the university that is activated through conversations, stories, and testimony. Through a dialogue between teacher and student, we make visible and explore bell hooks's contention in Teaching Community that "between teacher and student love makes recognition possible." Our dialogue challenges the principles of a dominant university culture through a conversation that is at once a critical exploration and a representation of hooks's pedagogy of love. Our conversation sees a teacher bearing witness to her student's story of her lived experience of racism on campus as together we unfold hooks's statement that teaching with love "will move us away from domination in all its forms." Following hooks, we ask how teaching with love might transform, might work on the university. Our conversation is framed by an engagement with antiracist pedagogy and the principles of the Scarborough Charter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]