Download or read book Relational Pedagogies written by Karen Gravett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do meaningful connections in learning and teaching look like, and how might we foster these? How might the concept of mattering be helpful for our understanding of higher education? In this book, Karen Gravett examines the role of relationships, and in particular of relational pedagogies, where meaningful relationships are positioned as fundamental to effective learning. She explores concepts of authenticity, vulnerability, and trust within learning and teaching, as well as the potential of working with students in partnership. This book examines the role of relationships between colleagues: how educators can learn from others both within and beyond higher education, as well as considering how teachers can support one another when working within challenging contemporary contexts. Drawing upon a rich theoretical perspective that interweaves posthuman and sociomaterial theory, the book also introduces a broader conception of the relational, where relational pedagogies are understood as encompassing objects, spaces and materialities, as part of an interwoven web of relations. In exploring mattering, Gravett explores both who matters – who should be considered and valued – and the material mattering of learning. In this innovative conception of relational pedagogies, Gravett offers a broad and rich reworking of our understanding of relationality, offering fresh ways in which we might understand and conduct higher education theory and practice.

Download or read book Relational Pedagogies written by Karen Gravett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do meaningful connections in learning and teaching look like, and how might we foster these? How might the concept of mattering be helpful for our understanding of higher education? In this book, Karen Gravett examines the role of relationships, and in particular of relational pedagogies, where meaningful relationships are positioned as fundamental to effective learning. She explores concepts of authenticity, vulnerability, and trust within learning and teaching, as well as the potential of working with students in partnership. This book examines the role of relationships between colleagues: how educators can learn from others both within and beyond higher education, as well as considering how teachers can support one another when working within challenging contemporary contexts. Drawing upon a rich theoretical perspective that interweaves posthuman and sociomaterial theory, the book also introduces a broader conception of the relational, where relational pedagogies are understood as encompassing objects, spaces and materialities, as part of an interwoven web of relations. In exploring mattering, Gravett explores both who matters – who should be considered and valued – and the material mattering of learning. In this innovative conception of relational pedagogies, Gravett offers a broad and rich reworking of our understanding of relationality, offering fresh ways in which we might understand and conduct higher education theory and practice.

Download or read book Community based Media Pedagogies written by Bronwen Low and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participatory media is a tool for individual and community education and development, allowing students to express and share their ideas and opinions, and to contribute to the production of the commons. Vital to the storytelling in these community spaces is listening—the listening of project facilitators to participants, of participants to each other, and of the public to the stories that emerge through these projects. Community-based Media Pedagogies examines the role of listening across community media sites to explore its relational qualities and to identify the kinds of teaching and learning that happen in these spaces. Drawing on community media projects and pedagogies across New York, Toronto, and Montreal, this volume documents the stories of racialized and marginalized minority youth and immigrants, and explores which relations and spaces facilitate listening.

Download or read book Co creating Learning and Teaching written by Catherine Bovill and published by Critical Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-creation of learning and teaching, where students and staff collaborate to design curricula or elements of curricula, is an important pedagogical idea within higher education, key to meaningful learner engagement and building positive student-staff relationships. Drawing on literature from schools’ education, and using a range of examples from universities worldwide, this book highlights the benefits of classroom-level, relational, dialogic pedagogy and co-creation. It includes a focus on the classroom as the site of co-creation, examples of practice and practical guidance, and a unique perspective in bringing together the concept of co-creation with relational pedagogy within higher education learning and teaching. Critical Practice in Higher Education provides a scholarly and practical entry point for academics into key areas of higher education practice. Each book in the series explores an individual topic in depth, providing an overview in relation to current thinking and practice, informed by recent research. The series will be of interest to those engaged in the study of higher education, those involved in leading learning and teaching or working in academic development, and individuals seeking to explore particular topics of professional interest. Through critical engagement, this series aims to promote an expanded notion of being an academic – connecting research, teaching, scholarship, community engagement and leadership – while developing confidence and authority.

Download or read book Pedagogies of With ness written by Linda Hogg and published by Myers Education Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the globe, students are speaking up, walking out, and marching for social and ecological justice. Despite deficit discourses about students, youth are using their voice and agency to call forth a better world. Will educators respond to this call to stand with students in relational solidarity as co-constructors of a new tomorrow? What is possible when teachers and students engage together in new ways? Pedagogies of With-ness: Students, Teachers, Voice and Agency offers insight into the transformative possibilities of education when enacted as the art of being with. Driven by student voices and their experiences of marginalization, this text takes a clear ethical stance. It asserts that students are both capable and competent. Taking a narrative approach, this book honors academic work that is rooted in educational practice. Expanding beyond traditional conceptions of student voice, chapters engage in meditations on three themes: identity, pedagogy, and partnership. This book is an exploration of with-ness, a way of knowing, being, and acting. By centralizing the all-too-often suppressed wisdom of youth, teachers and researchers engage in new forms of critique and possibility-making with students. Editors reflect on this central theme, exploring the dimensions of such pedagogies of with-ness. Through this book, teachers are invited to imagine pedagogy under this new framework, actively committed to students, their voice, and mutual engagement. Click HERE to watch the editors discuss their book. Perfect for courses such as: Social Foundations | Student-Teacher Partnerships | Secondary Methods | Service Learning Leadership Ethnic Studies | Democracy and Civics | Social Justice and Education | Student Voice in Classrooms/Education | Ethical Issues in Education | Leadership for Social Justice

Download or read book Subversive Pedagogies written by Kate Schick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume examines the place of critical and creative pedagogies in the academy and beyond, offering insights from leading and emerging international theorists and scholar-activists on innovative theoretical and practical interventions for the classroom, the university, and the public sphere. Subversive Pedagogies draws attention to creative and critical pedagogies as a resource for engaging pressing problems in global politics. The collection explores the radical potential of pedagogy to transform students, scholars, citizens, and institutions. It brings together scholars and students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, indigenous studies, feminist theory, and theatre studies, as well as practitioners in theatre and the arts. These diverse voices explore innovative pedagogical practices that extend our understanding of where pedagogy happens, invite critical assessment of the ways the neoliberal university shapes and restricts pedagogical engagement, and offer both theoretical and practical tools to explore more creative and broader understandings of what pedagogy can and should do. The book will appeal to scholars and students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, indigenous studies, feminist theory, theatre studies, and education theory, as well as practitioners in theatre and the arts.

Download or read book Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies written by Django Paris and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP)—teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for positive social transformation. The authors propose that schooling should be a site for sustaining the cultural practices of communities of color, rather than eradicating them. Chapters present theoretically grounded examples of how educators and scholars can support Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, South African, and immigrant students as part of a collective movement towards educational justice in a changing world. Book Features: A definitive resource on culturally sustaining pedagogies, including what they look like in the classroom and how they differ from deficit-model approaches.Examples of teaching that sustain the languages, literacies, and cultural practices of students and communities of color.Contributions from the founders of such lasting educational frameworks as culturally relevant pedagogy, funds of knowledge, cultural modeling, and third space. Contributors: H. Samy Alim, Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Inés Casillas, Michael Domínguez, Nelson Flores, Norma Gonzalez, Kris D. Gutiérrez, Adam Haupt, Amanda Holmes, Jason G. Irizarry, Patrick Johnson, Valerie Kinloch, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Carol D. Lee, Stacey J. Lee, Tiffany S. Lee, Jin Sook Lee, Teresa L. McCarty, Django Paris, Courtney Peña, Jonathan Rosa, Timothy J. San Pedro, Daniel Walsh, Casey Wong “All teachers committed to justice and equity in our schools and society will cherish this book.” —Sonia Nieto, professor emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “This book is for educators who are unafraid of using education to make a difference in the lives of the most vulnerable.” —Pedro Noguera, University of California, Los Angeles “This book calls for deep, effective practices and understanding that centers on our youths’ assets.” —Prudence L. Carter, dean, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley

Download or read book Towards Posthumanism in Education written by Jessie A. Bustillos Morales and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume presents a post-humanist reflection on education, mapping the complex transdisciplinary pedagogy and theoretical research while also addressing questions related to marginalised voices, colonial discourses, and the relationship between theory and practice. Exhibiting a re-imagination of education through themed relationalities that can transverse education, this cutting-edge book highlights the importance of matter in educational environments, enriching pedagogies, teacher-student relationships and curricular innovation. Chapters present contributions that explore education through various international contexts and educational sectors, unravelling educational implications with reference to the climate change crisis, migrant children in education, post-pandemic education, feminist activists and other emergent issues. The book examines the ongoing iterations of the entanglement of colonisation, modernity, and humanity with education to propose a possibility of education capable of upholding heterogeneous worlds. Curated with a global perspective on transversal relationalities and offering a unique outlook on posthuman thoughts and actions related to education, this book will be an important reading for students, researchers and academics in the fields of philosophy of education, sociology of education, posthumanism and new materialism, curriculum studies, and educational research.

Download or read book Relationship Based Pedagogy in Primary Schools written by Nicki Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful book shows how prioritising loving relationships in the primary school between practitioners and children helps secure children’s emotional well-being, improves behaviour and leads to more successful learning. It identifies the fundamental values that underpin effective learning encounters and provides the practical tools and language to realise deep connections with children. Combining theory with personal experience the authors present relationship-based practice as a robust and credible pedagogic approach to teaching and learning. The book offers unique features such as ‘Shared language’ to support and promote a rich, meaningful dialogue and ‘The lens of the authors’ offers practical and realistic contexts to help teachers apply theory and ideas from personal experience. Giving educators the confidence to teach with the relational qualities of love, trust, respect, and empathy, this is essential reading for all teachers wanting to develop authentic relationships with the children they care for.

Download or read book No Education Without Relation written by Charles Wayne Bingham and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collective statement about a new approach to education - the pedagogy of relation. After revisiting a number of existing conversations, the authors bring together several theoretical traditions under the umbrella of the pedagogy of relation. This book is an appeal to develop a common frame of reference for educational approaches based on the primacy of relations in education. The authors try to understand human relations rather than educational processes, behaviors, methods, curriculum, etc. The authors also examine the dangers that a pedagogy of relations may present, and the implications such a pedagogy may have for curriculum and educational policy. The promise of the pedagogy of relation is to offer a viable alternative to dominating trends in educational thinking - trends that emphasize control over teacher and student behavior as the main way of achieving excellence.

Download or read book Teaching in the Anthropocene written by Alysha J. Farrell and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new critical volume presents various perspectives on teaching and teacher education in the face of the global climate crisis, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Teaching in the Anthropocene calls for a reorientation of the aims of teaching so that we might imagine multiple futures in which children, youths, and families can thrive amid a myriad of challenges related to the earth’s decreasing habitability. Referring to the uncertainty of the time in which we live and teach, the term Anthropocene is used to acknowledge anthropogenic contributions to the climate crisis and to consider and reflect on the emotional responses to adverse climate events. The text begins with the editors’ discussion of this contested term and then moves on to make the case that we must decentre anthropocentric models in teacher education praxis. The four thematic parts include chapters on the challenges to teacher education practice and praxis, affective dimensions of teaching in the face of the global crisis, relational pedagogies in the Anthropocene, and ways to ignite the empathic imaginations of tomorrow’s teachers. Together the authors discuss new theoretical eco-orientations and describe innovative pedagogies that create opportunities for students and teachers to live in greater harmony with the more-than-human world. This incredibly timely volume will be essential to pre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators. FEATURES: - Offers critical reflections on anthropocentrism from multiple perspectives in education, including continuing education, educational organization, K–12, post-secondary, and more - Includes accounts that not only deconstruct the disavowal of the climate crisis in schools but also articulate an ecosophical approach to education - Features discussion prompts in each chapter to enhance student engagement with the material

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society written by Wang, Victor C. X. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-05-31 with total page 1471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology has become an integral part of our everyday lives. This trend in ubiquitous technology has also found its way into the learning process at every level of education. The Handbook of Research on Education and Technology in a Changing Society offers an in-depth description of concepts related to different areas, issues, and trends within education and technological integration in modern society. This handbook includes definitions and terms, as well as explanations of concepts and processes regarding the integration of technology into education. Addressing all pertinent issues and concerns in education and technology in our changing society with a wide breadth of discussion, this handbook is an essential collection for educators, academicians, students, researchers, and librarians.

Download or read book Learning Together in the Early Years written by Theodora Papatheodorou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together contributions from international experts on early years education to explore and debate relational pedagogy across different countries and in the context of a broad international field.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Teacher Education written by Michael A. Peters and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 2238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This encyclopaedia is a dynamic and living reference that student teachers, teacher educators, researchers and professionals in the field of education with an accent on all aspects of teacher education, including: teaching practice; initial teacher education; teacher induction; teacher development; professional learning; teacher education policies; quality assurance; professional knowledge, standards and organisations; teacher ethics; and research on teacher education, among other issues. The Encyclopedia is an authoritative work by a collective of leading world scholars representing different cultures and traditions, the global policy convergence and counter-practices relating to the teacher education profession. The accent will be equally on teaching practice and practitioner knowledge, skills and understanding as well as current research, models and approaches to teacher education.

Download or read book Here and Back Again written by Juan Miguel Arias and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many informal education programs emphasize the transformative aspects of their experiences. This transformation-by-design approach is seen in multiple types of informal education, including long-term after-school tutoring programs and short-term residential nature education programs. By participating in such programs, youth have opportunities to gain new perspectives, horizons, and self-concepts that may promote academic, social, and personal thriving. However, focusing too much on the transformational aspects of informal education experiences may have unintended effects. Framing such experiences as rare, extra-ordinary, or uniquely special may affect students' perceptions of how relevant and welcoming such settings are for them. This may be especially the case for youth who have been marginalized in academic or nature education settings, or who otherwise face barriers to participation. To avoid these unintended inequities, it is important for informal education programs to account for the ways that pedagogy can help make learning experiences relevant to students and their homes, schools, and communities. In this three-paper dissertation, I use a theoretical framework of Relational Pedagogy to explore the theoretical and practical implications of explicitly orienting informal educational goals toward students' present and future engagements with their homes, schools, and communities (Bingham \& Sidorkin, 2004). In connecting ethical questions of care in education with the implications of unequal power and imperfect communication inherent in social relations, relational pedagogy takes Noddings' foundational ideas of the primacy of educational care (1988) and brings them into conversation with the cultural humility encouraged by Levinas' conceptions of alterity (1974) and Freire's emancipatory goals and non-negotiable praxis of dialogue (1972). As such, relational pedagogy can guide practitioners toward cultivating cultural humility from a self-aware positionality, rather than attempt to gain "enough" cultural competence to reach particular students. Through this framework and a combination of quantitative and qualitative studies of two informal education settings, I argue that for informal education programs--particularly those that emphasize transformative experiences--effectively enacting culturally sustaining pedagogies means de-centering the places in which such experiences occur and re-centering the future interactions and communities to which the students will return. Paper One uses two years of survey data collected from tutors and students at an after-school tutoring program to explore the degree to which social perspective taking, conceptualized in this context as an active, operationalized component of relational pedagogy, might influence the perceptions and efficacy of tutors-student relationships (Gehlbach, Brinkworth, & Harris, 2012). The results of the study suggested that the degree to which tutors believed they could and normally did take the perspectives of their students positively predicted their end-of-year perceived self-efficacy and their students' perceptions of tutor perspective taking. Neither tutor nor student ratings of tutor perspective taking, however, predicted students' ratings of tutor efficacy or overall program efficacy. Papers Two and Three then apply the concept of relational pedagogy to examine instructor practices in a residential nature education program explicitly dedicated to serving marginalized youth. In this program, K-12 classroom teachers and other chaperones accompany youth in a multi-day, overnight experience led by a team of nature education instructors. Paper Two quantitatively explored the connections between instructors' pedagogical practices and teacher ratings of instructor and program efficacy based on four years of survey data (n = 240). The study also explored one-month follow-up surveys of classroom teachers' perceptions of overall program quality and of students' enjoyment, learning, and environmental affinity. The findings suggest that classroom teachers' perceptions of nature education instructors' practices were indeed related to teachers' short- and long-term perceptions of program efficacy and increases in environmental affinity. A mediation analysis of the relevant variables suggests that instructors' practices, including those related to understanding and caring for students (a proxy for relational pedagogy in this context), did influence how teachers perceived long-term benefits a month later, but mostly to the extent that the teachers saw the program as beneficial on the last day of their participation. Paper Three provides a parallel qualitative exploration of the same nature education program, investigating instructor beliefs and practices around relational pedagogy through program observations and instructor interviews. Drawing from these instances of instructor practices and reflections, I explore the different ways in which instructors navigate the dichotomies presented by a nature education program intended to serve marginalized youth. Themes emerging included uncertainty in responses to student behavior, sensitivity to classroom contexts and relationships, and the transformative potential of focusing on home contexts and relations when in an explicitly "nature-focused" setting. From this exploration I propose that, for everyone seeking to bridge experiential differences, and particularly for white instructors teaching across racial, ethnic, and linguistic differences, enacting relational care and trust depend on consciously practicing cultural humility and on re-centering future-oriented conceptions of "home" as key programmatic and pedagogical goals. Together, these papers offer a theoretically-driven exploration of pedagogical practices in informal education, and specifically highlight how the concepts of perspective taking, relational care, and culturally sustaining pedagogy can take on new meanings when they are enacted in places or circumstances that differ from students' everyday schooling experiences.

Download or read book Community based Media Pedagogies written by Bronwen Low and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Participatory media is a tool for individual and community education and development, allowing students to express and share their ideas and opinions, and to contribute to the production of the commons. Vital to the storytelling in these community spaces is listening—the listening of project facilitators to participants, of participants to each other, and of the public to the stories that emerge through these projects. Community-based Media Pedagogies examines the role of listening across community media sites to explore its relational qualities and to identify the kinds of teaching and learning that happen in these spaces. Drawing on community media projects and pedagogies across New York, Toronto, and Montreal, this volume documents the stories of racialized and marginalized minority youth and immigrants, and explores which relations and spaces facilitate listening.

Download or read book Teaching to the North East written by Russell Bishop and published by Nzcer Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A response to the marginalisation of particular groups of students with a way of teaching intended to increase equity in the education system.