This article reflects on insights from an action research project where we worked with students whose university experience was inhibited by the fear of failure. In contrast to the popular concept of ‘learning from failure’, which involves intellectualizing the experience and distancing ourselves from it, our findings demonstrate the importance of a ‘present tense’ focus on emotions and affects in order to understand the experience of failure for students. Doing so brings us face-to-face with the often painful experience of failure in the present moment which, we argue, is an important and valid part of the university experience. We conclude by reflecting on the kinds of spaces and skills that may be needed to work with this new understanding of failure and show that developing these is a crucial part of resisting neoliberalism and creating a more ‘care-full’ (Mountz et al., 2015) academy.

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大学失败的“现在时”经历：来自一个行动研究项目的反思

本文反映了一个行动研究项目的见解，在该项目中，我们与因害怕失败而抑制了大学经历的学生一起工作。与流行的“从失败中学习”的概念相反，它涉及将经历理智化并远离它，我们的研究结果证明了“现在时”关注情绪和影响的重要性，以便了解学生的失败经历. 这样做会让我们面对当下常常痛苦的失败经历，我们认为，这是大学经历中重要而有效的一部分。