Making lifeworld connections through critical pedagogies
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2024
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Hattam, S.
Marsh, P.
Ovsienko, H.
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Green, D.
Price, D.
Price, D.
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Source details - Title: Teaching to Transform Learning: Pedagogies for Inclusive, Responsive and Socially Just Education, 2024 / Green, D., Price, D. (ed./s), Ch.2, pp.30-41
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While there are many different interpretations of critical pedagogy (Wink, 2011), at its heart is a genuine connection with learner lives and lifeworlds. In an era of increased standardisation, and calls for ‘back to basics’ education, critical pedagogy engages both learners and educators in working together as powerful creators of knowledge. In the process, the constructed nature of knowledge is made explicit (Lankshear, 1997). Learners whose ‘virtual schoolbags’ (Thomson, 2002), which are the rich knowledge and experience gained through social and cultural lifeworlds, are typically not invited into the classroom and therefore risk a life of disengagement from formal schooling. It is these learners who are most clearly poised to benefit from a critical pedagogic approach.
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Copyright 2024 Cambridge University Press