Title: Transformative pedagogy - EduTech Wiki
Headings: Transformative pedagogy
Transformative pedagogy
Contents
1 Introduction
2 Goals
3 Origin
3.1 Critical and radical pedagogy
3.2 From liberation to collaboration
3.3 The unit of analysis, from set of discrete entities to system as a whole
3.4 A pedagogy of work, co-operation and enquiry
The classroom as community of practice
4 The objects and instruments of transformative pedagogies
4.1 Read on ...
5 Links
6 References

Content: ODL systems are seen as the most viable means for broadening educational access while improving the quality of education, advocating peer-to-peer collaboration and giving the learners a greater sense of autonomy and responsibility for learning (Calvert, 2006). However, as Virkkunen argues (2003), although ICT opens a wide range of possibilities for the enhancement and support of learning, its effective impact is restricted by narrow conceptualizations of learning that are based on three pervasive but problematic dichotomies: the one between informal and formal learning; the one between individual and collective learning; and the one between learning and the development of societal practices. Overcoming these problematic dichotomies forms part of the research agenda on transformative pedagogies. The intentions of critical educators have not changed much in the last decades, but the context of their action is no longer the same. The purpose of the current article is to revisit transformative pedagogy in order to redefine its units of analysis, its objects and its methodologies, in a way that would make it more meaningful in the context of nowadays knowledge-driven society. Postmodern pedagogical agency needs to keep the spirit and intentions of transformative and critical pedagogies while discarding the dogma. It is the objective of the paper to examine a post-critical pedagogy, taking advantage of the possibilities offered by ICT to support innovative conceptualizations of learning in emergent globalised economies, particularly those of developing countries.