Learning and Leadership for Social Sustainability

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Learning and Leadership for Social Sustainability

• Pedagogical Challenges Workshop

Ruth Deakin Crick Graduate School of Education
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Aims of the workshop

• To explore the theory and practice of
  personalised pedagogies which integrate the
  self with formal learning outcomes through
  dialogue and co-generation of knowledge
• To form an outline for a special issue for
  publication
• To identify ongoing research agendas
• To influence policy

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Prefigurative Practices

• RSA Opening Minds Curriculum
• ELLI Learning Power research and development
• Context based object driven inquiry developed by
  Newcastle University in BSc in science
• Related practice and theory around student voice,
  auto-ethnography, emotional literacy and learner
  centred practices

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Key emerging ideas

• Seven dimensions of learning power
• Eight steps of an archaeological pedagogy
• Critical subjectivity

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Seven Dimensions of Learning Power

• Changing and learning
• meaning making
• critical curiosity
• creativity
• learning relationships
• strategic awareness
• resilience

• Being stuck static
• Data accumulation
• Passivity
• Being rule bound
• Isolation dependence
• Being robotic
• Fragility and dependence

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Eight (spiral) steps of an archaeological pedagogy

• Choosing/deciding
• Observing/ describing
• Wondering interrogating
• Discovering/storying
• Navigating/Mapping
• Spanning/connecting
• Interacting/incorporating
• Reconciling/validating

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A Participatory Enquiry Paradigm
Grounding validation of truth values
Consummating celebration of being values
Heron and Reason 1997
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Learning relationships mentored movement of
selective attention between self and text

• TEXT
• Publicly valued funds of knowledge
• Publicly valued competencies

• SELF
• Story, identity,
• hope, embodied,
• contextualised
• personal power to learn,

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Inquiry based pedagogy
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Key ideas from world cafe

• Change the model to complex, organic metaphor
  rather than Cartesian logic
• Move from Learner to Person
• The language we use is critical
• Begin with wonderment not choice
• Praxis grounded, embodied and storied learning

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Key Ideas from world cafe

• Energy invested in life story is key point of
  engagement
• Learning is agency for life
• Empowering is learning to articulate
• It takes a brave and clever teacher

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Key ideas from world cafe

• Integral polarities rather than dualisms i.e.
• Individual v communal
• Personal v public
• Reason v emotion
• Representing and validating experience

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Research
Practice
Dissemination (enterprise/ business)
Policy
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Professional Learning
Knowledge creation
Building intellectual social capital in
business, education and community
Knowledge exchange
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Multilingual challenging spaces
Research
Practice

Policy
Dissemination