Looks like a classroom to us
Date
2017-12-13Link to ePress publication:
http://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NTLT-Spaces-and-Pedagogies.pdfCitation:
Stansfield, J. M. (2017, December). Looks like a classroom to us. In S. Nash and L.L.M. Patston (Eds.), Spaces and Pedagogies: New Zealand Tertiary Learning and Teaching Conference 2017 Proceedings (pp. 93-102). Auckland, New Zealand : Unitec ePress, Unitec Institute of Technology.Permanent link to Research Bank record:
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/4159Abstract
Neoliberal ideologies, with their emphasis on the rule of markets, and community development, which promotes ground-up collective social change and human rights, stand in stark contrast to each other. In a social practice school, teaching tomorrow’s social change-makers the theory and practice of community development, we experiment with what authentic out-of-classroom learning experiences might be – by, for example, engaging students in a union picket, a protest march and a policy breakfast – and reflect together on how these might inform a deeper discussion of community development using a Freirean lens. The risks, logistics and outcomes of this work-based learning are explored as well as the potential for this innovation to illuminate further the paradox of educating change-makers in a neoliberal institution.