Rethinking pedagogy in the face of complex societal challenges: helpful perspectives for teaching the entangled student
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.
Main Authors: | Wessels, Koen R., Bakker, Cok, Wals, Arjen E.J., Lengkeek, George |
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Format: | Article/Letter to editor biblioteca |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | Entanglement, complexity, hope, integrity, pedagogy, |
Online Access: | https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/rethinking-pedagogy-in-the-face-of-complex-societal-challenges-he |
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