Slowing Down in Neoliberal Times: Engaging in Deep Pedagogical Listening as Resistance

You are invited to engage in this special issue, which shares five pedagogical narrations across a wide range of topics; each includes “an ethical and creative event composed of ongoing communication and processes of re-living and re-enacting experiences” (Kim, 2023, p. 4). These pedagogical narrations ask us to consider how we can allow ourselves to slow down and engage in deep listening, which is the foundation for any reciprocal relationship, human and more-than-human, and an “active verb that involves interpretation” (Rinaldi, 2001, p. 80). I invite the reader to think about how this slowing down and attuning to our context can be a process of resistance against the “neoliberal regimes” that are evermore present in our work in education (Davies, 2005).