Radical Pedagogies: Right Here, Right Now!

Fashion education is caught in a moment of intense transformation. While the fashion industry continues along reckless path social and environmental destruction, new generation students are activating our educational institutions, demanding real radical change. Meanwhile, theoretical field Studies has rapidly taken central position imagining vision global context, re-writing problematic histories, challenging Eurocentric dominance dismantling prevailing ideologies. This article, form manifesto for educators, calls return to origins scholarship within discipline British Cultural Studies. It asks what we might learn from Studies’ intersection with Critical Pedagogy as way “do” politics classrooms. By drawing on initiatives pioneered by Historical Department at London College Fashion, this explores how can be re-articulated current times, order forge alliances between theory practice, enact action beyond walls academic institutions.