Accepting Educational Responsibility: Breaking Hegemony of Measurability Over Mutuality – Nepal

• In Event: Accepting Educational Responsibility: Building Living Theory Cultures of Educational Inquiry in Global Contexts

Abstract

This presentation explores the answer of the question “How can I create a mutual learning environment in my university class?’ in collaboration with a senior colleague in Nepal. My responses include the following strategies: participatory pedagogy, collaboration in planning and action, integration of arts in reflection, and peer and group evaluation. They include the twin concepts of ‘care’ and ‘love’- concepts which are little written about by educationists” (McKernan, 2008, p. 96), this presentation intends to answer the question and share my living-educational-theory that includes my aesthetic values. Aesthetics, “the interconnectedness of perception, thinking, and feeling” (Given, 2008) which interconnects my inner and outer worlds and shows the possibility of breaking the hegemony of measurability over mutuality.

Author

• Parbati Dhungana, Kathmandu University