Rethinking pedagogy in the face of complex societal challenges: helpful perspectives for teaching the entangled student

Autor: Koen R. Wessels, Cok Bakker, Arjen E.J. Wals, George Lengkeek
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Pedagogy, Culture and Society (2022)
Pedagogy, Culture and Society
ISSN: 1468-1366
DOI: 10.1080/14681366.2022.2108125
Popis: Confronted by myriad interconnected societal challenges, this paper asks: what kind of pedagogy does justice to the experience and challenge of living in a complex world? Departing from a critical reading of a preparative-logic to education, this paper emphasises students’ entangledness: more-or-less consciously, students are uniquely shaped-by and shapers-of complex societal challenges in a here-and-now sense. Utilising this premise, the paper develops a set of pedagogical perspectives that might inspire and help teachers to design their own responses to particular complex societal challenges in their unique teaching contexts. Drawing on emerging outcomes from a narrative diffractive inquiry with 12 teachers as co-researchers and engaging with complexity thinking, six perspectives are presented and discussed: entanglement-orientedness, entanglement-awareness, hopeful action, inquiry within complex societal challenges, practicing perceptiveness, and practicing integrity. Together, these perspectives offer a heuristic for embracing complexity in education.
Databáze: OpenAIRE