Course overview
This course will provide opportunities for educators to rethink theory, policy and their practice through engaging with 'new pedagogy studies' and specifically to problematise educators' work through foregrounding pedagogies for justice. Students will critically examine aspects of new pedagogy and curriculum studies covering theory, practice and policy. Students will undertake case studies of theorists, theories, practices and policies, including Friere, productive pedagogies, multi-literacies, funds of knowledge, place-based local literacies, feminism, anti-racism and eco-justice. Students will critically apply these to their own educational settings and engage in new thinking around the frontiers of equality/justice, pedagogy and the terrain of effect, pedagogies of embodiment and culturally responsive pedagogies.
Course learning outcomes
- Problematise the notion of pedagogy; its history and recent shifts from curriculum to pedagogy studies to do political work
- Examine (inter-)national case studies that advocate on behalf of critical modes of pedagogy
- Examine the rationale for critical pedagogy through reflections on their own workplaces
- Analyse one frontier of new pedagogy studies that is pertinent to their own work (eg embodiment, affect studies, critical multi-literacies
- Engage with readings that take up alterative conceptual frameworks (eg. Vygotsky, Freire, Bernstein, Bahktin) for making sense of pedagogy