Full Description
Reflexivity and Critical Pedagogy highlights the essential nature of reflexivity in creating sites for transformative possibilities in education. The book argues that seemingly intractable epistemological inequalities are embedded within educational structures and processes and also contends that perspectives which define knowledge as a unitary truth are essentially inadequate to address current global problems. Further, it argues that people and ideas traditionally positioned outside the academy are vital to developing more effective educational interventions.
This volume stresses the influence of dominant societal discourses in creating and sustaining particular and limited definitions of knowledge. It also explores their power in delineating acceptable processes of knowledge dissemination. These discourses, whether consciously or otherwise, indwell teachers, learners and policy-makers as well as educational structures and organisations. It proposes reflexivity as the key component needed to combat such forces and one that is an essential ingredient in critical pedagogy.
Contents
Foreword
Peter Mayo
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Reflexivity and Critical Pedagogy
Anne Ryan and Tony Walsh
2 Discourse: Some Considerations for the Reflexive Practitioner
Anne B. Ryan
3 Reflexivity and the Emotional Dimension of Adult Learning
David McCormack
4 Seeing the Wood and the Trees: Expanding the Reflexive Gaze
Tony Walsh
5 Reflexive Practice and Transformative Learning
Anne Ryan and Conor Murphy
6 Reflexivity and the Pedagogy of Surprise
Peter Hussey
7 Reflexive Learning for Active Citizenship
Michael Murray
8 Negative Capability and Epiphany Moments in Reflexive Practive
David McCormack
9 Stories, Reflexivity and the Search for Meaning
Mary B. Ryan
