Developing Transformative Agency in Culturally Mediated and Socially Constructed Learning as Praxis

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Abstract

In the proposed paper authors discuss the findings of the qualitative case study on developing transformative agency (Sannino, A. et al, 2016, Stetsenko, 2016) with beginning urban teachers, community leaders, and art educators. Authors draw on three cases to explore how mastery of a specific sequence of mediational means (Wertsch, 1998) of reflection as narrative, dialog, metaphor/image/schema, and joint artmaking mediated development of reflection as a higher psychological function (Vygotsky, 1987) and teachers and educators’ development as agents of their praxis (Freire, 1972). The discussion will focus on creative scaffolding model of tool-mediated activities, and how its implication facilitates teachers’ development as transformative agents of praxis, engaged in in the ongoing inquiry, and committed to combatting inequalities and disrupting injustice.

Authors

• Elina Lampert-Shepel, Touro University

• Sharon A. Sullivan-Rubin, Touro University