ERIC Number: EJ1421273
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-1468-1366
EISSN: EISSN-1747-5104
Rethinking Pedagogy in the Face of Complex Societal Challenges: Helpful Perspectives for Teaching the Entangled Student
Koen R. Wessels; Cok Bakker; Arjen E. J. Wals; George Lengkeek
Pedagogy, Culture and Society, v32 n3 p759-776 2024
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.
Descriptors: Social Problems, Difficulty Level, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education, Science and Society, Open Education, Sustainability, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers, Ethics, Values, Religion, Philosophy, Aesthetics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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